Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [verb] all " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It was something that I had to experience all by myself . ’
2 It was plain that she had said all she was going to say .
3 Julia was not at all sure that she had followed all the details of the story , and did not believe everything she had been told , but she did accept that Raffaella was genuinely afraid .
4 With the light of morning she just could n't allow herself to believe , as she fully had last night after his phone call , that she had blown all chance of an interview , and Fabia sipped her coffee and wondered — how ?
5 The director of The Long Roads , Tristram Powell , agrees that less equalled more in that performance : ‘ I was aware that she had played all these glamorous parts , and I had to get her to trust me and do much less than she was used to .
6 One of the girls , the plump one with the freckles and the missing front tooth , looked very plain and dowdy now that she had lost all her pretty blonde curls .
7 She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him .
8 ‘ She confirmed a newspaper report that she had moved all her things out of Highgrove .
9 He was simply checking that she had considered all the angles before reaching her decision to go .
10 Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room .
11 He conveyed the idea that she had known all of them in the beauty of her youth and theirs , and most of them had been her beaux .
12 Well , was n't that what she had wanted — to let him see that she had known all along what lay behind his invitation this evening ?
13 Nora 's virtual command , reinforced by her petulant departure , had no bearing — except that she had taken all the pleasure out of it for him .
14 Making sure that the precious package that she had come all this way to deliver was still safely at the bottom , she dressed in comfortable jeans , and what looked like a man 's old-fashioned sleeved vest , dyed red , and she was ready .
15 THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised .
16 We wish she 'd broken her neck especially when we learn that she 'd planned all along to rip off poor Tess 's best idea .
17 After the third demonstration , Charles said he 'd better go , and Dottie , recognising that she 'd had all she was getting , took a sleeping pill and let him .
18 Her mind had been so full of Travis that she 'd forgotten all about her cousin and the jade figurine , and the recall now was an unpleasant shock .
19 The second is that she left to escape all the criticism that might have ensued if she stayed behind .
20 Initially , many believed that their retention would only be temporary ; they failed to understand , however , that Elizabeth herself saw the 1559 settlement as final , and that she intended to resist all pressure from her councillors , divines , and MPs to purify or reform these ceremonials .
21 Yeah , and I thought you said that you 'd scrapped all that ?
22 ‘ And I do n't suppose , ’ Father Ludovico remarked , ‘ that you had to pay all that much for them either .
23 ‘ I simply told them that you were my wife and that you had taken all our money and our little girl and were running off to London to be with your lover . ’
24 Erm but yes , lots of people from the flats , either taking part in terms of sitting on the committee and doing all the planning and getting all the various permissions that you needed to do all sorts of things .
25 What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency .
26 ‘ I thought , ’ he said , in withdrawn enquiry , ‘ that we had answered all the relevant questions already .
27 ‘ I thought that we had sorted all that out . ’
28 It was an American teaching method that , Frank insisted , allowed students to progress through the stages of education confident that they had grasped all the basics of one stage before going on to the next .
29 It was also indicative of an air of fatalism hanging over Conservative Central Office , a feeling that they had answered all the questions on the examination paper without doing themselves justice and were now awaiting the marks with trepidation .
30 Consequently many students , by the final year in particular , felt that they had lost all hope of making sense of the subject or getting to grips with the work .
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