Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] on all " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to get up on all fours , and bumped her head on the underside of the bed . |
| 2 | I seemed to miss out on all the fun in those days , my spells afloat were few and far between , while ashore at Felixstowe I was very busy as trade in that port was building up rapidly . |
| 3 | He 'd missed out on all that because of the war , and he never tired of dropping references to ‘ noughth week ’ and ‘ encaenia ’ and ‘ schools ’ and May Balls . |
| 4 | But later , from the end of the Triassic onwards , certain species within the genus began to drop down on all fours , although this does not mean that the quadrupedal forms descended from bipedal forms — or merely got tired of walking on two legs . |
| 5 | They kept peering about on all sides as though they knew that he was not far off but they seemed reluctant to leave the path . |
| 6 | Curious thing — she who held on to so many grievances , never spoke twice about the money she kept pouring out on all of us . |
| 7 | The smell excited her like a pheromone , even now , three years after she had walked out on all that madness . |
| 8 | Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions . |