Example sentences of "and it [vb past] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had a friend who used to say that if you burned a candle in your window and it burned all night , then the world would n't end while you were sleeping . ’ |
| 2 | In use I found it to be very acceptable ( to quote Prime Minister Major ) and it ran all the DOS and Windows packages I threw at it — and here 's the rub . |
| 3 | With 12 players on call from the World Cup compared to the USA 's six , Canada could rely on experience and it made all the difference , especially among the backs where the Eagles paid a heavy price for dropped passes , missed tackles and errant kicks . |
| 4 | For the first time Janine felt that she had an ally , and it made all the difference to her . |
| 5 | It 's loving-kindness and simplicity , and it lay all the time in your pictures , implicit in every petal and every jug you ever painted . ’ |
| 6 | and it went all the way round , no problem there . |
| 7 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 9 | The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out . |
| 10 | She felt the puff of his breath on her ear , and it took all the determination she possessed not to turn round . |
| 11 | During the following days Luke 's energy for work seemed boundless , and it took all of Merrill 's concentration to keep abreast of him . |
| 12 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
| 13 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 14 | Cornflower-blue eyes bored into her own and it took all the willpower she possessed not to look away . |
| 15 | And it took all this time to get here . |
| 16 | The arena was almost full and it had all the makings of a full scale rumble . |
| 17 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 18 | and it had all the paperwork with it , it was gon na be shipped to Singapore . |
| 19 | And it was all new fences and it had all been it had been . |
| 20 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |
| 21 | It was the picture he loved to give and it concealed all that he really was . |
| 22 | And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out . |
| 23 | nearly killed herself , she stuffed a up her fanny and it stuffed all her |
| 24 | It was depressing to think that he was the closest friend that the old man had , and it stirred all the usual guilt feelings — should have gone to see him more often , and so on . |
| 25 | The truce of 1921 was attacked as a typical piece of Lloyd George chicanery , and it needed all the efforts of the party leaders to stop the party from breaking up the government there and then . |
| 26 | Too small , and it cried all the time |
| 27 | It was raining when her flight arrived at Heathrow and it rained all the way back to her flat in Islington . |
| 28 | With the help of his father , John built the Nautilus , 38ft long and one of the earliest boats to be driven by a screw propeller , and it outpaced all the steamers which followed the University Boat Race between Putney and Mortlake , which by then had become an annual event in the spring of each year . |
| 29 | Its tension caught the reader , there was an emotion in it , shared between him and them and it turned all his attention away from himself on to the subject matter he was speaking . |
| 30 | It arose out of a strike in July 1964 by ACTT television technicians claiming higher wages ( and an improvement in working conditions ) and it involved all the independent television companies , which included three for whom my firm acted . |