Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks once again for a charming picture — it made me smile all day . |
| 2 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
| 3 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 4 | Before they came we removed all trace of our connection to television , rearranged the office furniture a bit , and hid a camera in a bankers box . |
| 5 | Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew said the RUC still had his full support and he believed they pursued all killers with equal determination . |
| 6 | God has n't given Paul an injection of energy and told him to face all kinds of circumstances . |
| 7 | However , she realised the wisdom of his words , but hunger and the sound of the lunch bell caused her to discard all thoughts of a long soak , and instead of running a bath she stood beneath the soothing waters of a hot shower . |
| 8 | I ordered them to fasten all windows — much good that would do — draw the curtains , and stay out of sight . |
| 9 | But currently she 's by Jason ( Beverly Hills 90210 ) Priestly 's side in the video for Roy Orbison 's chart hit I Drove All Night . |
| 10 | As he slowly revolved he observed all points of the compass with eyes wide in wonder . |
| 11 | Drafted in March 1949 , the article never emerged beyond a few notes , mainly about Brideshead itself , though the task led him to reread all Waugh 's early works , including his biographies , and it was evidently one the dying man approached with enthusiasm . |
| 12 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 13 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 14 | ‘ But I thought we had all day to get to the school , ’ remarked Endill . |
| 15 | She hoped they kept him occupied all day . |
| 16 | 84% felt it covered all aspects associated with the subject matter . |
| 17 | Did you get all monies applied for or only part payment or none at all ? ! |
| 18 | My mother she cried oh she did she cried all night . |
| 19 | Not one animal did we see all week — or hear , for that matter — although the small-windowed barns on the mountain paths , the frequent smell of liquid manure and the amount of cheese melting on menus indicted that there must , somewhere , be some . |
| 20 | This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical . |
| 21 | They missed a few kicks at goal but they nailed Northampton to their line and worked up such a storm that they had them scurrying all ways . |
| 22 | When I left I took all medicines down here you know . |
| 23 | a right high one but it had er , had it got all things on top ? |
| 24 | The dangers which threaten those who make pronouncements about essential books in a National Curriculum had already been revealed when Mr Baker in a speech in 1988 said he thought all children aged 16 should have read George Orwell 's Animal Farm . |
| 25 | Yeah oh Richard says he works for , he said he works all day long for a |
| 26 | The 1988 Criminal Justice Act extended it to cover all crimes where a few thousand pounds are involved . |
| 27 | ‘ The Minister in Bonn suggested we circulate all frontier posts , after phoning them … ’ |