Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] all [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Neither man liked the other , but they had strewn eggs in their own pathways towards each other and they walked on them all afternoon .
2 She talked about him all day .
3 He chatted to them all evening , then went home and fell asleep .
4 I thought about it all night , I could n't sleep , it was so stuffy , and my tummy 's all wrong ( he tries his best to cook , but it 's hopeless ) .
5 She thought about it all morning , and was so depressed by the afternoon that she put on her cloak and found her way to where Gabriel lived .
6 If I looked at them all night long , I should n't grow tired of the sight . ’
7 Next day I lunched with Hugh [ Lygon ] and drank with him all afternoon and sallied out with him fighting drunk at tea-time when we drank at the New Reform until dinner .
8 Opaque , yet once I slept with you all night
9 In the same way that he now helped his wife to dress , and waited upon her all day long , Wilson sought out people to keep her company .
10 it was too late came Saturday night he was on morphine tablets , I stayed with him all day Sunday , and I could see he was dying then , I stayed with him all night , all day , and then , gone Saturday night
11 it was too late came Saturday night he was on morphine tablets , I stayed with him all day Sunday , and I could see he was dying then , I stayed with him all night , all day , and then , gone Saturday night
12 A nurse came sometimes , but Charlotte stayed with me all day .
13 But what stayed with me all evening was that fraction of an instant when I thought I was dead .
14 When he had gone Sarah carried on with her chores , but Garry 's words stayed with her all evening .
15 My job was to take the cart up on the moor to a place called Mile End , and you sat with it all day until they brought the grouse to you .
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