Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] all " in BNC.

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1 He went there to Dalby Forest one day in the afternoon loaded them all up and set off for Wales .
2 The card screamed it all .
3 Anyway , one morning the Commandant called them all together on the parade ground .
4 ‘ When the tocsin sounded we all left this room .
5 The blurting ring of the telephone caught them all unexpectedly .
6 And when the sun appeared they all died and then the people who were to be the people of Amantani came from other islands , from peninsulas in the south … ’
7 The sub-title said it all : Celibacy and the Church .
8 The Dents owned the very first car in Baldersdale and that created quite a stir I remember being at school when they first drove it round the place and the teacher brought us all out on to the road to have a closer look at this amazing thing .
9 Then he got peevish and decided on a rain storm and the dinosaurs were so overgrown that they would n't fit into the ark so the flood destroyed them all .
10 Nora and I used to say that the war did them all a power of good .
11 Then the war destroyed it all again .
12 The lid stopped it all from falling out when you tipped it over and the air is getting in around the cracks in the lid .
13 The waiter found it all very amusing though Sandison was not quite sure if the laughter came from the story itself or his own clumsy attempts to tell it .
14 The match had it all .
15 And what the heck did it all mean , anyway ?
16 The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them .
17 ‘ And the king told you all this ? ’
18 The keeper saw it all the way and still could nt ge near it .
19 It did not really matter who we were or where we had come from ; the fountain united us all in a common purpose and that was enough .
20 The topic lasted them all the way back to the Campo San Maurizio and it was not until they were climbing the stairs up to their respective rooms that he let himself say :
21 THE notice said it all : ‘ Will the last person to leave Basingstoke please turn the lights out . ’
22 ‘ Anyway , the Inspector said it all sounded very suspicious and he 's going to authorize an autopsy ’
23 But the headlines the day after the debate said it all : ‘ Meacher defends benefit proposal . ’
24 They went to school on Saturday mornings , and at 12.30 when the bell went they all poured out of the school gates .
25 The newcomer scanned them all , and his glance settled upon Charlotte and her companion .
26 Then the woman surprised them all .
27 Feeling suddenly shy , she looked down , and asked huskily , ‘ And , in return for a trip to Australia , the colonel told you all about me ? ’
28 The nurse from the clinic on the compound lined them all up to have their feet swabbed with disinfectant in case any of the thorns were poisonous , principal included .
29 They saw Albert Tarr reach the mother , and grab hold of her and also appear to try to push away the child , then the train hit them all .
30 The music had them all .
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