Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] all " in BNC.

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1 It does come nice after Christmas , Christmas it got him all out of plonk
2 It made them all laugh when Peter said that come to that , what he did with him was against the law since Jay was not yet twenty-one .
3 It made it all worthwhile .
4 It probably slowed down the whole process a bit , but it made it all much safer . ’
5 It made us all behave like lunatics but no one except me seems to want to forget it .
6 Like they make a mistake , or I 'd better phone back , and then it cost them all that much money again , more money .
7 ‘ But because we were so bad it woke us all up .
8 A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen
9 And it showed you all the sort of countries of the world , you know , on lights and , and that , and which light was for which wh when they took us round the er
10 Like the dog 's born er after , before that , and before that , and before that and it showed you all the owners and everything , right ?
11 The boilerhouse bridge needed repairing before it pitched us all into the river .
12 I ran for my life , but it followed me all the way home . ’
13 For Constanza it created a sort of void — no real responsibility ; and it tied us all together in new ways .
14 And er then of course when I got better It hit me all on the head and that well Then er when I went back to school they found out as I could n't see the board properly .
15 It brought it all back .
16 As he watched TV pictures of the Amsterdam disaster , Lockerbie survivor John Smith , 78 , said : ‘ It brought it all back to me .
17 All of Brundle 's simple rules and runes had left the complacent head which believed it knew it all anyway .
18 It took me all of 18 months to figure out what was going on , which says a lot about me . ’
19 It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move .
20 When Ford offered us a safe harbour , it took me all of 15 seconds to say yes . ’
21 It took me all day .
22 It took me all my self-control not to turn round from the job I was doing until she had stopped and was ready for applause .
23 I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed .
24 He and his wife tried and tried to have another one and they did , but it took them all those years .
25 It took them all of the pre-lunch session to get the runs as Walsh and Bishop made life difficult , and Gooch fell just before the end ; but with three balls left before lunch
26 They built it around a makeshift shrine , with offerings to the gods , both good and bad , and it took them all the following winter , this winter .
27 It took them all day to build the bridge — felling two of the tallest pines , stripping them bare , easing them with ropes down the steep slope to the river .
28 It took him all day to find addresses and write the envelopes , as there are so many agony aunts in national newspapers , teenage and women 's magazines .
29 Well he c it took him all morning , how long would it have taken me ?
30 And it took you all your time to get them decent again with a wet rag .
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