Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then erm , then they had this thing called Niff , which was water , and they came round spraying all of us . |
| 2 | Mm , see they , they 'd actually approached all this , they 've approached it have n't they ? |
| 3 | Yeah , and cos we had , we had the bathroom that was originally there , that they knocked through to build all this extension , was converted into a shower room , and she did n't think that the sink was right in that , and the disabled bathroom had at least two or three pieces that she thought bolshie in that as well , |
| 4 | To confuse matters for the historian , the exponents of widely differing interpretations called themselves ‘ Darwinians ’ because they acknowledged Darwin 's lead even if they did not accept all the details of his theory . |
| 5 | If they did not know all of his plans , they would be placing themselves in great danger . |
| 6 | Following a low fat diet in the long term would certainly ensure that they did not regain all they had lost so far . |
| 7 | Of course , they did not get all that they wanted , but they will be back for more . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's true , ’ says the former crackshot , ‘ but they did n't open all the letters . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , put it like this , ’ replied Billy guardedly , ‘ it means they did n't eat all the deer during the war . ’ |
| 10 | And they did n't have all this er legislation about redundancy money or anything then ? |
| 11 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 12 | Debbie was upset that they did n't spend all their time here with her . ’ |
| 13 | Nevertheless they had n't waited all these years for one quick roll in the hay . |
| 14 | Except that Ministers do n't normally look as if they had n't slept all night . |
| 15 | The image of counter staff did need some polishing , in fact they had just put all their 1,300 people through a course teaching them ‘ how not to behave like Sharons and Traceys . ’ |
| 16 | Originally intended to have taken the form of a binding Convention , it was watered down to a " Statement " as a result of concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , and accused northern countries of hypocrisy , given the fact that they had already destroyed all but a tiny fraction of their own virgin forests . |
| 17 | They had apparently exhausted all the games that a four-year-old could invent , and they were shivering in the wind as they considered exploring the world on the other side of the road . |
| 18 | Quite a lot of them did n't have all that much meat in them , which is not surprising , because they do n't actually have to have all that much meat , which we thought was quite amazing . |