Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] every [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a trickle of a stream and I did not say I 'd broken every bone , just hurt my leg . |
| 2 | And I 'd seen every bird in Israel but one , the bar-tailed lark . |
| 3 | After the dovecot came the wall connecting the stableyard to the house , the yard I 'd crossed every night I could remember to collect the dogs ' bowls and return them full . |
| 4 | I thought I 'd exhausted every possibility , rivals of every pedigree from the Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies to a rough-trade gamekeeper out at Shotover , but I never thought of family . |
| 5 | Then , when I was about 18 or 19 I figured that I 'd learned every rock guitar lead that I ever wanted to know — all my favourite Ulrich Roth solos and all my favourite Frank Marino leads . |
| 6 | I 'm happy where I am and I get called every couple of weeks which suits me . ’ |
| 7 | At three o'clock , when I had scanned every crack in the ridge , every curve of every dune , every patch of colour on the plain , I looked down and saw an ant , crawling into the wind . |
| 8 | And I should n't leave Lothian until I had killed every Norman I could find , and all the families who were supporting them . |
| 9 | A little ward-maid appeared at the bedside with an enormous vacuum flask of Georgian tea , refusing to leave until I had downed every drop . |
| 10 | At Eton I had read every book I could lay hands on about the Zulus , about Abyssinia and about the rise and fall of the Dervish empire in the Sudan . |
| 11 | When we found it and after I had thanked every sea god for my luck and promised never to make the same stupid mistake again , I gingerly inspected the Seayak for damage . |
| 12 | I had enjoyed every minute of the past month . |
| 13 | As a boy at Halton I had devoured every book available on the exploits of the RFC in World War I and my mind went at once to the great deeds of Ball , Bishop , McCudden , Mannock — why not Mahaddie , I thought ? |
| 14 | I saw from the papers some time back that you were acting again ; I 've followed every turn of your fortunes , I can tell yer . |
| 15 | Many times I 've prebaited every night for two weeks or more and caught fish and I 've prebaited with similar amounts . |
| 16 | And I 've loved every minute of it ! |
| 17 | I 've loved every minute of being here . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And I 've loved every second of it . |
| 19 | I was there forty years , right , I 've seen every accident on that bend , I 've had my house as a first aid post a dozen times , until we did something in this committee to sort that corner out |
| 20 | Any minute now , I 'll do what I 've done every day of my adult life . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've heard every story in the book , darling . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been offered a sum that would buy my house twice over to pose for topless pictures like that and I 've turned every offer down flat . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But I 've enjoyed every minute of it and remain as fascinated today by the cut and thrust of politics as I ever was . |
| 24 | Funny thing , I 've , I 've enjoyed every job I 've done . |
| 25 | At the time it did , but I think I 've forgotten every thing I learned . |
| 26 | I would n't want to think I 've found every room in the house.I enjoy surprises . . |
| 27 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 28 | An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’ |
| 29 | I 'VE watched every episode of Eldorado love the story line . |
| 30 | I 'VE watched every episode of Eldorado and love all the storylines . |