Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | but Arthur 's guess was that they found fuck all . |
| 2 | When the mistake was discovered , they tried to put all the blame onto the innocent parties — the importers and the farmers — who have been landed with these cattle . |
| 3 | They seemed to dance all the time with their own group of friends or relatives . |
| 4 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 5 | people this year , if they 'd done all their Christmas shopping mail order . |
| 6 | No encore was needed , despite the clamour for one and the band left knowing they 'd converted all who had come with an open mind . |
| 7 | No encore was needed , despite the clamour for one and the band left knowing they 'd converted all who had come with an open mind . |
| 8 | All Nottingham was beautiful and along there 'd got great big flags and they 'd trimmed all Christmas they 'd they 'd sewed all Christmas things on them . |
| 9 | Oh I thought they 'd stopped all these . |
| 10 | They 'd gone all the way and still she did n't feel any of the things one was supposed to feel — elated , contented , together . |
| 11 | Ruth and Naomi , they 'd lost all their possessions and the most prominent member of the family was a man called Boaz |
| 12 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 13 | He patted his clothes until he found the folded , crumpled map they 'd brought all the way from the Store . |
| 14 | Perhaps they 'd known all along what was going to happen to him . |
| 15 | All Nottingham was beautiful and along there 'd got great big flags and they 'd trimmed all Christmas they 'd they 'd sewed all Christmas things on them . |
| 16 | They 'd won all six and people were saying Belgium were maybe the best team in Europe . |
| 17 | They 'd forgotten all about me , too . |
| 18 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 19 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
| 20 | They 'd driven all the way from Brussels . |
| 21 | ‘ But when I saw them I could n't believe how clean they were — and they 'd recovered all the pieces . |
| 22 | Sometimes he and Charlie would spend a Saturday afternoon playing a George Formby record again and again until they 'd got all the words of ‘ I 'm Leaning on a Lamppost ’ or ‘ Chinese Laundry Blues ’ . |
| 23 | Yeah we got there for ten o'clock and we had to wait till they 'd finished all the out-patients before they 'd let the in-patients . |
| 24 | Because they had n't , I 'd , they usually say ring after one so I rang at half past one and they 'd emptied all the machines and everything . |
| 25 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 26 | Anyway , they walked orf all sheepish when she started ravin' at 'em , an' then she goes marchin' in the yard would yer believe ter see ole Galloway. 'E was n't there by all accounts but 'is son Frank was . |
| 27 | By December of the same year they had two similar groups and by March 1988 , three and at this stage they began to meet all together monthly for a celebration . |
| 28 | So I think when they started getting all this |
| 29 | They decided to assign all these assets to five of their number as Trustees for Sale . |
| 30 | They decided to forget all current trends ( such young band paranoia , the decision to trend hop , often leads to directionless confusion anyway ) and concentrate on keeping their music within the reach of their collective ability . |