Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 2 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 3 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 4 | It was what , I used today , they used it in all hospitals . |
| 5 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 6 | She cooked his favourite meals , kept the house neat and clean , obeyed him in all things and gave herself to him willingly and frequently . |
| 7 | Life can take many strange twists , ’ Jonas told her in all seriousness , then softened the whole with a laugh . |
| 8 | He could mend any broken toy , and make things too — I remember he made a great big rocking-horse for Hilary , and painted it in all sorts of marvellous colours . |
| 9 | The five-member tribunal sentenced each of them to life imprisonment with hard labour , and also stripped them of all property , civil rights and military rank . |
| 10 | The War had emptied him ; stripped him of all illusions . |
| 11 | Although they had decided that it was a drill motor , Bernice 's imagination turned it into all sorts of monsters . |
| 12 | Wadkins got away with not the best of drives at the 18th but he had a gap , hit a five-iron to 45ft and then holed it across all sorts of slopes and burrows . |
| 13 | The pool was large for a private one , lying at the bottom of a vast expanse of immaculate lawn and surrounded by a high yew hedge which effectively hid it from all directions ( unless you were on a horse or a double-decker bus ) . |
| 14 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 15 | I may say that despite my reputation of being trigger-happy where libel writs are concerned , I restrained him by all sorts of expedients . |
| 16 | When Molly joined him he would ask hopefully if she were feeling tired or , even perhaps more hopefully , as though it relieved him of all responsibility , if she had the curse . |
| 17 | Conceptually , the inner city is a space outside society which has shown , for whatever reasons , a marked recalcitrance in responding to the macro-economic revival that surrounded it on all sides ( Massey and Meegan , 1989 ) . |
| 18 | Trees surrounded it on all sides . |
| 19 | There were indeed some who shook their heads and moaned , but on the whole buoyancy , bullishness and general enthusiasm hit me from all sides . |
| 20 | They wasted no time in coming up with a replacement for another New Zealander , Murray Kidd , who guided them to All Ireland League honours in 1992 . |
| 21 | He did n't quite know why he 'd hoped that Alex could be cleared of the murder , but the confirmation of his friend 's guilt sapped him of all energy . |
| 22 | That night he prayed devoutly that he might be upheld in the purity which he had so far , maintained , in spite of the temptations and evil example which encompassed him on all sides . |
| 23 | But Judge Karl-Heinz Schmoll ruled : ‘ The policy covered him in all situations in life . ’ |
| 24 | He robbed them of all dignity . ’ |
| 25 | It tormented me beyond all endurance , while at the same time the awful silence of the terrible prison weighed me down . |
| 26 | And the touch of his scorching lips , the clasp of his arms , the close union with his warm , strong body robbed her of all strength and of all power of resistance . ‘ |
| 27 | Whereas the Formalist concept was related to the literary devices within a text , the Prague School theory applied it to all forms of language . |
| 28 | My Grandfather accompanied me to all contests and modelling assignments and was well known on the Beauty Queen circuit as ‘ Pop ’ . |
| 29 | The only sorrow for Marjory , of Lunedale Road , Darlington , is that her grandfather is no longer here to share in the good news for it was he who introduced her to all things historical . |
| 30 | Nobody told us that these pesticides were being used , they just sprayed away , put the fruit and veg on sale — and we bought it in all innocence . ’ |