Example sentences of "they did [adv] [vb infin] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If they did not know all of his plans , they would be placing themselves in great danger . |
| 3 | Following a low fat diet in the long term would certainly ensure that they did not regain all they had lost so far . |
| 4 | Of course , they did not get all that they wanted , but they will be back for more . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's true , ’ says the former crackshot , ‘ but they did n't open all the letters . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , put it like this , ’ replied Billy guardedly , ‘ it means they did n't eat all the deer during the war . ’ |
| 7 | And they did n't have all this er legislation about redundancy money or anything then ? |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Debbie was upset that they did n't spend all their time here with her . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |