Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 2 | How would you answer the allegation that that is unduly restrictive , bearing in mind the sort of factors which Professor Lock referred to like us all needing and liking more space ? |
| 3 | Benny 's head ached as she tried to work it all out . |
| 4 | She said he threw the baby around , tried to strangle them all and ripped up the furniture . |
| 5 | If you tried to remember them all as just these equations , you 'd be very easily getting confused about which one was which and you 'll just get your head cluttered with all sorts of stuff and so that way something that you know , something you can bring it back to . |
| 6 | When he left I phoned to wish him all the best and he said , ‘ keep on picking people 's brains ’ . ’ |
| 7 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 8 | But Mick and I never questioned ourselves ; we just tried to keep it all on the road . ’ |
| 9 | The sawdust and bran mixture not only provided a soft base on which to rest the corpse but also acted as a sponge for exuded matter ; the side lining masked the bare wood ; the side-sheets assisted in the presentation of the corpse ; and the frill along the visible top edge formed a seal when the lid was screwed down and helped to keep it all airtight . |
| 10 | Just as he said , Farmer Plant 's teenage niece , Harriet , was delighted to have her to help in the stables , and promised to teach her all about the care and feeding of horses as well . |
| 11 | Tried to get it all in . |
| 12 | CHARLES TRIED TO think it all out on the Saturday morning . |
| 13 | Bannered ‘ Women Face the '90s ’ , the Time cover features a woman with a briefcase in one hand and a baby in the other -a symbol of those women who feel betrayed by feminism because , as the magazine says , they tried to have it all and now they 've just plain had it . |
| 14 | ‘ You promised to tell me all about it . |
| 15 | I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it . |
| 16 | Hilda , he wrote , when I ventured to tell her all her troubles were her own fault : You are so cold . |
| 17 | she never , never could , and I said what I tried to tell you all |
| 18 | After the trials of Halton , Cranwell was a haven , With my pay now being nearly 30 a week , I invested in a motorcycle — a square tank Rudge of questionable vintage — for £4 ( at a pound a week ) , but soon cured myself of the motorcycle bug that seemed to affect us all at the time . |
| 19 | I went to the conference armed only with a general feeling of being pissed off that men seemed to have it all their own way . |
| 20 | For as long as I can remember , I have been fascinated by the U.S.A. From childhood dreams of big cars , space rockets , Pacific coast and cowboys , America seemed to have it all . |
| 21 | A cold finger seemed to touch us all . |
| 22 | I did n't want to hear the news for a while , but the music seemed to say it all . |
| 23 | She hated to face him all pale and pinched , with heavy eyes and mauve shadows beneath them . |
| 24 | As usual she planned to shut it all out , and let Christine take over . |
| 25 | I 've got a lot of stuff to do , got to put it all in order . |
| 26 | Not only did I get to model the clothes how I liked , I got to keep them all afterwards . |
| 27 | She said when you came and I rang to confirm it all she said you 're very lucky because he agreed thirteen pounds and we do n't do it for under fifteen pounds now . |
| 28 | Laing decided to write it all down , from start to finish , to include copies of his printouts , which he knew to be genuine , and to send a copy to every member of the bank 's Board in New York . |
| 29 | We decided to leave it all before the Lord and relax , and we planned a visit down to the base in June . |
| 30 | The selectors could also have changed their top order , but decided to give them all another chance . |