Example sentences of "[pers pn] all [vb past] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of a scientific lecture , C. P. Snow once received a backhanded compliment from his chairman who said , ‘ We all knew Raman spectroscopy was complicated , but did not realise how complicated until we heard Snow 's talk ’ . |
| 2 | Er Transport and General Workers Union , and , of course , then we was taken o b over by the A E U , Amalgamated Engineering Union , when we we changed course , and we all became A E U members . |
| 3 | We all carried water bottles and were encouraged to drink a lot of water . |
| 4 | We all had stomach pains . |
| 5 | We all had tin whistles and we learned them . |
| 6 | Doing that on the victim 's head ‘ leaves your hair in one hell of a mess , so after that we all had camomile shampoos from glamorous coiffeuses in white tunics ’ . |
| 7 | And we all got council flats nearby . |
| 8 | But one thing that is very relevant which , which you 've got ta think about is that , we all thought Operation Quickspend was great news did n't we ? |
| 9 | They all followed Barbara Coleman down the passage . |
| 10 | They all wore Peter Pan collars and thought cleavage was something butchers did , we were before vitamin , vitamin pills , disposal diapers , Q E one , jeeps , pizzas , instant coffee and Kentucky Fried was n't even thought of , in our day cigarette smoking was fashionable , grass was for mowing , pot was something you cooked in . |
| 11 | They all wore mountain shoes and had packs slung over their shoulders . |
| 12 | And then you had twenty people , well , over twenty people sat in the window , and they all had bar meals , and they 'd all been to do with this run , you know , there 's a big run through Twickenham on a Sunday morning , |
| 13 | They all had hardluck stories of abuse , neglect , even plain indifference from parents . |
| 14 | They all met Lucy Jackson on the stand and the trip was a big talking point for weeks . |
| 15 | They all sang O God our Help in Ages Past . |
| 16 | They were all written in nineteen thirty-nine or nineteen forty , and though they all concerned Walter Machin and his writing , or the industrial environment in which he lived and had grown up , they nevertheless contrived to be oddly impersonal and unrevealing . |
| 17 | This lacks credibility for two reasons : first , there is no evidence to prove Hollis was a Russian mole , and second , no investigations were ever planned that would have tracked down any of these spies , despite the fact that they all displayed behaviour patterns that were highly suspicious , until a defector alerted MI5 . |
| 18 | She told the British Psychological Society that many mothers-in law were upset about their image — and they all hated mother-in-law jokes . |
| 19 | ‘ They all did war work . |