Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not told him exactly where she had got all the money that had been spent so freely around this house , but of course he guessed . |
| 2 | Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond |
| 3 | More human than she 'd looked all morning , he thought , realizing he had taken against his witness at least partly because she was alive and the amusing , lively , feminine creature that had been Angela Morgan was not . |
| 4 | There was one who told his wife , ‘ The reason I 'm late is that Harry died at the third hole , so we had to go all the way round the other fifteen holes on the course , dragging Harry . ’ |
| 5 | Recalling the eve of the maiden flight of the ‘ Have Blue ’ proof of concept prototype which evolved into the F-117 , Rich told journalists : ‘ When that airplane was going to fly , the company was on strike , so we had to put all the management and engineers to work . |
| 6 | Aunt Bedelia had charge of the television so we had to watch all the soaps in Christendom . |
| 7 | They had managed to stay together although they had lost all their kit and most of their clothes . |
| 8 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 9 | It is comparable with the now discredited phonetic method of teaching children to read where they no sooner learned to read by this method than they had to scrap all they had learned and then start all over again and learn to read properly . |
| 10 | Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands . |
| 11 | In an order broadcast on Feb. 26 Saddam instructed his troops to withdraw immediately from Kuwait , although he continued to present all military developments in terms of Iraqi victory . |
| 12 | Although he had removed all trace of labelling from the cassette the Duty Men were not fooled . |
| 13 | Although he had anticipated all sorts of difficulties , he found a flat to rent . |
| 14 | Mr Prior has been involved in planning new kitchens while working in major restaurants and hotel groups , so he decided to use all his experience when it came to his own establishment . |
| 15 | ‘ So he started pouring all this stuff out about how The Jam were finished . |
| 16 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 17 | So then they would take the shandy out of the machine cos we were listening , cos everyone kept drinking all the shandy . |
| 18 | I think if you went and saw our own doctors a lot of our fears would be allayed because most of the young doctors would n't , would recommend to you , my own doctor asked me all the questions and different things and then he says he 's a young doctor , he says if I were a women and if I 'd answered all the questions as you did , I would go on H R T. |
| 19 | I did n't know if I 'd covered all these |
| 20 | Someone recently said to me ‘ I 'm gradually getting over the death of my husband , but if I had realized all the extra work I would have I 'm not sure I could have coped . |
| 21 | I suppose I would , too , if I had to serve all the creeps that come in here every night . ’ |
| 22 | I had become so interested in a nice neat pattern that I had n't checked if I had found all the shapes . |
| 23 | Not that I do it , I mean if I tried to read all that stuff , I 'd never leave home but I mean they actually give a a an advice list which we can then comply with . |
| 24 | If I wanted to copy all of the department twenty two files to the , the A disk , the floppy disk . |
| 25 | But I do n't think I could cope on my own without my mum and dad even if I did have all that money . |
| 26 | She listened without interrupting until I had said all I wanted to say . |
| 27 | because I 'd had medical Yeah it was cos I 'd had all these operations . |
| 28 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 29 | She began to feel young and amazingly pretty , like she had felt all those years ago when she had first emerged from the chrysalis of self-conscious adolescence to spread her butterfly wings . |
| 30 | Oh no , she thought — as if she 'd known all along this was what would happen . |