Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historical fact is that the settlement of 1688–1701 failed to settle everything ; it failed to provide for all contingencies . |
| 2 | One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all . |
| 3 | Mediators also lack self-assurance , something that Jesus promised to give to all those who follow him . |
| 4 | Brian tried to think about all those theories — so abstruse to him — which maintained that unloved children became unloving mothers , abused children turned into abusers of their own offspring . |
| 5 | But none of that seemed to matter at all . |
| 6 | Maeda came to hear of all this : his advice was to go ahead with independence . |
| 7 | At first , this suggestion seemed to apply to all accounts — which certainly would have been taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut — but it has now been narrowed down to those of ‘ public interest ’ companies , with a fairly generous definition of which companies are of public interest . |
| 8 | A stove in the corner of the little room was giving out great waves of heat and there was the smell of leather , sweat and cigar smoke which seemed to hang in all German guard-rooms . |
| 9 | He entered in the midst of a raging dispute about whether the endowment deserved to exist at all . |
| 10 | Simone was one of those girls who hardly seemed to change at all from one year to the next . |
| 11 | From then on it was the ‘ Dark Ages ’ when nothing seemed to happen at all . |
| 12 | He seemed to cater for all tastes in his selections . |
| 13 | ‘ The Red Terror ’ , as Phar Lap was to become known , was a freak of breeding : his sire Night Raid failed to win at all in England before being sent to Australia and his dam Entreaty was unplaced on her only start . |
| 14 | He therefore failed to exercise at all the statutory discretion . |
| 15 | He pledged to work for all sides in the constituency . |
| 16 | Discussion in the community needs to be initiated and encouraged to look at all these issues that affect women . |
| 17 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 18 | IF , AS predicted , a right-wing coalition looks set to sweep the Socialists from power after the first round of France 's parliamentary elections on Sunday , the most interesting statistic will probably be the number of people who failed to vote at all . |
| 19 | Memories of that now vanished organisation are sad to recall , for as the international situation grew graver , and the shadow of war began to fall on all of us , enthusiasm waned . |
| 20 | Their use increased considerably from the 1880s when the familiar skeletal iron-framed hay barn with a curved corrugated-iron roof began to appear in all parts of the country . |
| 21 | This was , after all , the time of the popularisation of the writings of Freud and Freudian interpretations began to appear in all the appreciations of O'Keeffe 's work . |
| 22 | Bill began to bulge in all directions . |
| 23 | Then , he began to talk about all the people in No. 43 . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he said again , and the floodgates really opened , and she began to cry for all the bewilderment of feelings he had caused in her . |
| 25 | Birth rates began to decline for all social groups as a consequence of changing attitudes towards economic conditions and opportunities . |
| 26 | It began to cater for all tastes . |
| 27 | Alan , who was won several national awards , agreed to compete against all 75 children at Hinderwell Junior School , Scarborough , who were carrying out a topic on communications . |
| 28 | Deposed champion Evander Holyfield has changed his mind again and decided to retire after all following his defeat by Bowe . |
| 29 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 30 | At the age of 16 I started to work in all kinds of crop harvesting . |