Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 2 | Breeze was not a nervous person in the ordinary way , but she had undergone many strange experiences that day , and this additional shock seemed to rob her of all her courage . |
| 3 | Before his arrival she endeavoured to prepare herself for all exigencies , but this was difficult to do because she had no idea what sort of a man he was going to be . |
| 4 | He took hold of her by the shoulders and began to shake her with all his strength , forcing her back through the hall towards the staircase . |
| 5 | When Mr Prescott first backed off standing against Roy Hattersley for the deputy leadership last year , and then changed his mind and decided to contest it after all , Neil Kinnock expressed unrestrained irritation . |
| 6 | She leant down and started to lick out his ear , bit his lobes , started to tell him of all the things she had done with other men . |
| 7 | You must have given the driver some bribe , Edward , I do n't know how he managed to help me at all , he was terrified of being caught . ’ |
| 8 | She ached to remind him of all the wasted evenings with prospective investors : the long , boring meals with pompous bankers and their dull , provincial wives . |
| 9 | Henry 's wholehearted displays in such a variety of roles , allied to his self-effacing modesty , combined to endear him to all Palace fans of the mid-1980s . |
| 10 | Yet a woman who had lost a husband or failed to get one at all , might find herself in genuine distress . |
| 11 | In general , to this visiting UK pilot , New Zealand landing and parking charges seemed to be negligible , on those occasions when they bothered to levy them at all . |
| 12 | And when Mrs Amabel Dallam remembered to pay her for all those wedding chemises she might just take a few shillings to a certain bazaar in Leeds where she 'd heard good dress-lengths were to be had at bargain prices and make herself a new dress for Christmas . |
| 13 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 14 | It was such a collective experience that John was n't mine any more , I had to share him with all these people , each with different motivations and reasons for being here . |
| 15 | All the villagers had an increasing tendency to address Lydia , if they had to address her at all , in the third person through the medium of Betty and it seemed that Elizabeth too had caught the habit . |
| 16 | To keep all his supporters in balance , Lloyd George had to offer something to all of them , but this meant that every coalition scheme was also hotly opposed by a part of the coalition . |
| 17 | What I still could n't understand was why he wanted to see me at all . |