Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | After months oon and half-hearted denials Novell Inc last week finally made the move to acquire all of Unix System Laboratories Inc from AT&T Co and its eleven other stockholders . |
| 2 | Controllers at the air-sea rescue control centre at RAF Pitreavie in Fife expected the search to last all night . |
| 3 | He asked the department to review all decisions to reduce security levels over the past year , and report to the SSI within three months . |
| 4 | And the Park was being beautifully maintained ; the trees were not being needlessly felled ; the formal garden that girdled the house retained all its statuary . … |
| 5 | The Tsar retained the power to veto all legislation and should an emergency arise while the Duma was not in session , Article 87 of the Fundamental Laws enabled him to legislate by decree . |
| 6 | When Peter got it so resoundingly wrong at Caesarea Philippi in telling Jesus not to go to Jerusalem under any circumstances , he received the rebuke to end all rebukes : ‘ Out of my sight , Satan ! ’ |
| 7 | The ultimate paradox of profit remittance policies came in mid-1989 , when the debt crisis caused the government to freeze all profit transfers . |
| 8 | This trial began in February 1986 and ended some 17 months later , when the trial judge acceded to a submission that the evidence for the prosecution had raised no case to answer , and directed the jury to acquit all the defendants . |
| 9 | In the light of the inconsistency of Clark 's evidence with previous statements by him , the prosecution on Nov. 9 stated that it would be improper to proceed , and the judge directed the jury to acquit all three defendants . |
| 10 | He emphasized that the laws opened up to Jews the possibility of their separate existence within Germany in all spheres of life , and renewed the command forbidding all ‘ individual actions ’ against Jews . |
| 11 | He stated that China reserved the right to review all existing Hong Kong law . |
| 12 | More than an hour later , Mrs Chamberlin opened the door to find all her children under the table eating tiger stew out of an old bowler hat doing duty as a cooking pot , save one , who was crouched on top of the table growling ferociously . |
| 13 | The court heard the worker thought all the gas bottles were empty . |
| 14 | After advising counsel for the government that Washington could not keep on withholding relevant evidence , Chief Judge Platt ordered the government to produce all documents relating to how and where the bomb was placed on Flight 103 for inspection in camera by 1 October 1990 . |
| 15 | Because she had spent much of that day watching her mother supervise preparations for the traditional Gio ceremony observed by the family on each anniversary of her great-grandfather 's death , Lan knew the altar held all the favourite foods and beverages that the high-ranking courtier had enjoyed during his lifetime . |
| 16 | In France there had already been speculation , followed by disaster , when John Law persuaded the government to unite all the French colonies into a single vast Company for trading up the Mississippi and in the Indies , which was then used as the base for a wild expansion of the French currency . |
| 17 | ‘ Although tennis was formally reinstated as an Olympic sport in 1981 , it was n't until 1987 , some four years after David had died , that we finally persuaded the IOC to allow all tennis players , including the professionals , to be eligible to compete , ’ he recalls . |
| 18 | Allen thought they were wolves but though he kept the fire going all night he assured Marian that at this time of the year with the forest full of game they were in no danger from wolves or from any creatures but men . |
| 19 | Allen thought they were wolves but though he kept the fire going all night he assured Marian that at this time of the year with the forest full of game they were in no danger from wolves or from any creatures but men . |
| 20 | I really liked the band playing all them songs . |
| 21 | In her foreword to Ordinary Justice , Mrs Sally Oppenheim-Barnes , chairman of the National Consumer Council , said the Council wanted all consumer debts ( even up to £25,000 ) dealt with in county courts , and the threat to seize goods used as a last resort rather than a first step in the enforcement process . |
| 22 | I had the opportunity to get all my favourite people together . |
| 23 | He had the right to arrest all poachers found within his bailiwick , and to raise the hue and cry upon them . |
| 24 | ‘ Er — you 've — hm — not told me any more lies , then ? ’ she strove desperately hard to get herself back together , although from what she could see of it Ven was n't objecting that his kisses had the power to scatter all sensible thought . |
| 25 | A tenant could insert a new name in his lease upon payment of another entry fine , and he had the power to sub-let all or any part of his property if he wished . |
| 26 | His unassertive stillness as much as his occasional enraged outbursts forced the audience to view all the comings and goings through the eyes of this character . |
| 27 | The resolution also instructed the politburo to give all necessary support to the rump of the Lithuanian CP which had remained loyal to the CPSU . |