Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The twenty year old salesman claimed he 'd just pushed the animal away with his foot after it had messed all down his clothes . |
| 2 | It had kept all but the most enthusiastic golf addicts indoors . |
| 3 | Or the time when the distraught lady asked how to make her puppy sick , because it had eaten all her house-keeping money — and she wanted it back ! |
| 4 | He had blurted it out , and with it had gone all his shyness ; he turned and looked into her face . |
| 5 | And when we looked it all er all , it had gone all the way through the mattress |
| 6 | The government announced on June 4 that it had freed all remaining former South Vietnamese officials held in re-education camps , thereby fulfilling a key condition for the normalization of relations with the USA . |
| 7 | But the resistance has already scored an important propaganda victory against government forces , only a week after Vietnam said it had withdrawn all its troops from Cambodia . |
| 8 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
| 9 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
| 10 | It had lost all faith in China ; it had sided against the leadership which had prevailed ; and now , in its hour of need , it found no prospect of comfort from its own supposedly sovereign power , Britain . |
| 11 | ‘ It had lost all the appearance of a sexual implement ; it looked disgustingly like a cheap gadget from the five and ten cent store , like a bright-coloured piece of fishing tackle minus the bait . ’ |
| 12 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 13 | It had come all the way from Mars . |
| 14 | MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell . |
| 15 | The Vietnamese government had always maintained that it had returned all US POWs to the US government shortly after the signing of the Paris peace agreements in 1973 . |
| 16 | It had snowed all night and the build-up was threatening to push us off down the hill . |
| 17 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 18 | But Robert Oppenheimer showed in 1939 that an old star of more than twice the mass of the sun would inevitably collapse when it had exhausted all its nuclear fuel . |
| 19 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 20 | In despair at the greasiness of her hair , Daisy had washed it in the river — how the hell had women coped in biblical times ? — and it had dried all crinkly . |
| 21 | It had taken all his willpower not to plunge himself inside her there and then . |
| 22 | She had wanted everything nice and new for Debbie , but it had taken all their remaining savings . |
| 23 | It had taken all her strength to go to the man who thought children were special . |
| 24 | It had taken all her strength to get this far in her life . |
| 25 | It had taken all her courage to come here with head held high , to converse with any degree of composure with the young men who interestedly flocked about her , thanks to Araminta 's loose tongue . |
| 26 | Graham 's voice sounded very loud , contrasting sharply with the heaviness it had held all through the conversation so far . |
| 27 | To Wilson , it had seemed all of a piece , all part of her own unhappiness , of that weary feeling that nothing mattered , nothing , no amount of effort could alter what was to happen . |
| 28 | They had meant it kindly , she knew , but it had hurt all the same . |
| 29 | Her reply was that she never cried and moreover had never talked about it since it had happened all those years ago . |
| 30 | By 1933 it had recovered all the municipal seats it had lost in 1931 . |