Example sentences of "[vb past] all the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gregory analysed all the planning applications in the area between 1957 and 1966 , and showed that development permission had been refused for 83 per cent of the 3,000 ha for which applications had been made . |
| 2 | As president , Sukarno appointed and dismissed all the Ministers , who were responsible to him . |
| 3 | There 's a lot of truth in the criticism and South African supporters at the World Cup who dismissed all the sides as sub-standard would do well to take note of it . |
| 4 | I listed all the things I could remember : camera , five films , pens , pencils , compass , maps , books , address book etc . |
| 5 | I actually took all those letters home and I went and I listed all the things that were listed er mentioned in all the letters and also that I tried to consider giving you know my impression of the meeting and tried putting exactly what what they 're saying . |
| 6 | He listed all the sculptures made and where they had been found . |
| 7 | and I listed all the items |
| 8 | He listed all the variables of a board : length , width , thickness , bottom curve , nose , tail , fin configuration , rocker , rails , V , stringer . |
| 9 | They changed all the teachers round now because |
| 10 | I thought they washed the blood out changed all the blood . |
| 11 | And sometimes I felt he was different , and had changed , even though I knew people changed all the time and people our age changed faster than most . |
| 12 | Some were friends , some were enemies , but they changed all the time . |
| 13 | or a bit of mould in one of the sockets it used to click all the phones when anybody made a call and er , all , all sorts of things that , I would of thought ah there 's a faulty phone somewhere and it 's degenerating and er we went round and waste every single one out , every single one , went to this extension pressed line three , play it down and the phone rang , I thought right it 's not a phone , I changed the cabinet , I changed all the cards and the cards in one big one , I had one three |
| 14 | John retained all the filer media from the old pond in large sacks . |
| 15 | Duchy retained all the staff employed at the time of the takeover , with the exception of the previous General Manager , who preferred to retire . |
| 16 | From the beginning , the evening bore all the hallmarks of success , Luke adapting himself immediately to the light holiday mood of Sam and Anna , and sweeping Merrill along with him . |
| 17 | But they said the type of attack bore all the hallmarks of the I-R-A . |
| 18 | The attack bore all the hallmarks of a loyalist murder bid . |
| 19 | A factory proletariat was being formed and , as populist agitators had already discovered , the proletariat bore all the characteristics Marx had depicted — it was brutally exploited , profoundly alienated , and capable of striking heavy blows against employers and government alike . |
| 20 | We invited all the chairs of the other UK Link bodies ( ie Wildlife Link , Countryside Link , Scottish Link , and Northern Ireland Link ) . |
| 21 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 22 | In London I would not let a photographer take my picture , because the Government confiscated all the TV footage . |
| 23 | He 'd keep that one , even if Ymor confiscated all the rest . |
| 24 | The Reverend Derek Edwards , Vice-Chairman of the Action Committee , described all the demonstrations as ‘ warm and supportive ’ . |
| 25 | In it he described all the things that happened on the voyage . |
| 26 | The Revolution Day spectacle that year was an embarrassment that underlined all the divisions and uncertainties in the country . |
| 27 | And I know that whatever the rhetoric , Mrs Thatcher used all the rhetoric , nobody took us further into Europe than Mrs Thatcher . |
| 28 | It is true that the government used all the influence it could to secure the return of loyal members , and the purges of borough corporations at the end of Charles II 's reign certainly had an electoral impact , but the election of such a loyal Parliament appears to have been more the result of a genuine reaction against the Whigs amongst the electorate than it was of Court manipulation . |
| 29 | With less reliable means of reaching the station , with perhaps less requirement for haste , and less opportunity to understand the timetables or gauge time by any other means than the sun , these passengers used all the patience of the peasant to wait for their appropriate train . |
| 30 | It was more than two decades since he had taken offence at the term-a term used all the while in court , where the Han were predominant and the few Caucasians treated as honorary Han — yet here , in the Domain , he felt the words incongruous , almost — surprisingly — insulting . |