Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] all [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They had n't checked them all at the time , and then they had forgotten .
2 But surely too many conversations are recorded in the Life for Boswell to have checked them all in literal detail ?
3 And she 's scoffed them all in this lesson !
4 Her husband 's letter had reached them as soon as they arrived in their summer resting place and had plunged them all into abject misery .
5 Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways .
6 He got there at four o'clock he had four fish he could catch I think out of the ten for the week cos he caught the others and he 'd caught them all by half past four .
7 Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview .
8 Look , I 've booked us all into the Italian place round the corner .
9 It was unfair to drop players who had given their all against West Indies and to bring in others against Sri Lanka .
10 In all there were eleven names , and Duncan had absorbed them all within five minutes .
11 It was my impression that slightly casual management may have turned them all to vinegar .
12 You done 'em all like that .
13 It 's , what they 've done is they 've closed er er , erm branch , an office massive office in London and they 've moved them all over to Leeds because they ca n't get the people to take jobs in London so they 've transferred it all to Leeds , and erm there 's a chance of erm getting promotion , well , a very good chance of getting promotion down there .
14 See we 've done it all without decimal point on the calculator , and we never done .
15 And Rital , whose east European eyes had seen been and done it all for more of a century than she chose to admit , merely shrugged and locked the door .
16 ‘ I could have done it all for you with one phone call if you had let me . ’
17 We 've done it all by talking to parents and finding our what they really want from us , so let us have your ideas , comments and requests too — after all , it 's your magazine .
18 I think that I was also over-confident when going into that river as if I 'd done it all before and was some sort of expert .
19 Yeah , its probably cos they 've done it all before so , they know , they know what goes on there .
20 But Freeman 's done it all in friendship , so what would I say ?
21 So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it .
22 Still , forget Andrew Motion , I could have written it all in a sentence .
23 I 'd rather have said it all to his face !
24 I mean poor dogs and this , I mean we 've said it all before it 's not viable , four dogs and a semi that you do n't exercise , four dogs that er appear particularly one of them to be housed in the same little area , day in day out with a curtain on the door , so that there 's not even light going in there
25 ‘ You keep thinking you have seen it all in football , but then you see something else like this .
26 Not Fat Paul — Fat Paul , with his full-breasted bulk , his impassive sloped slab of a face , his parched pub rug , and the cruel blond eyebrows which give the eyes themselves the glint of a veteran ferret who has seen it all in the hare-traps and rat-pits .
27 I have seen it all in my very own Camden often enough , but it is new to me somehow .
28 Erm a , th th the situ , you know the situation abo , about about charity , charity we 've we 've seen it all before and it has n't helped the starving millions in Africa , it 's beginning to start all over again .
29 Again , Palin 's natural humour and ability to laugh at a situation is never far away , but I ca n't shake the feeling that we 've seen it all before somewhere .
30 Some of the material I have n't seen , of course , because the government has n't even shown me all of the material .
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