Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | My bag , my writing , my camera , films — they got it all ! ’ |
| 2 | When they got it all home , the honeycombs were cut and drained through cloth into jars . |
| 3 | erm he did n't think they had any bilingual signs and they did n't have they were n't using their Portakabins so they scrapped them all last year sold them off . |
| 4 | In go the Pyramids , Atlantis , the Holy Grail , the Knights Templar , the Freemasons , Napoleon , the Paris Metro map , Hitler , Ayers Rock and , unfortunately , much more besides ; out comes a dread secret to do with control of the ‘ telluric currents ’ which cause earthquakes or continental drift or something ; not that it much matters , since they made it all up . |
| 5 | ‘ They made it all up , ’ said Thresher 's Jayne Bridges . |
| 6 | They made us all kneel , made us put our heads between our legs and clasp our hands behind . |
| 7 | These people here are very over-careful you know , they just like to cover every eventuality so they asked us all to ring our families even though there is n't a thing wrong … . ’ |
| 8 | City have had more than their fair share of great players : Gordon Banks , Peter Shilton , Gary Lineker , Alan Smith , Gary McAllister , Mike Newell — pity they sold 'em all ! |
| 9 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 10 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |
| 11 | Some of the more , er , cheerful clubbers staggered over the cobbles of the outdoor Coronation Street set , but studio staff had few complaints : more used to the dry Rotary Club events and business lunches held on-set , they found it all ‘ a pleasant change ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 13 | They measured it all out painstakingly . |
| 14 | They did n't like the turkey so they threw it all away . |
| 15 | they threw it all in the brook |
| 16 | Refreshed , they bade us all adieu , and sped off in their big car . |
| 17 | They heard it all . |
| 18 | And they , er when they did it , they knocked it all down , and that was really wrong and unnecessary , and though I think some of the flintstone was used , a lot of the flintstone went back in the builder 's yard , and it was a criminal thing at the time . |
| 19 | ‘ They killed them all , sometimes with the most terrifying and prolonged torture . |
| 20 | Caroline discovered that Nicolo had not bought too much food , because they finished it all , right down to the last bit of crusty , delicious bread . |
| 21 | you see then they pulled them all down and built the ice rink there . |
| 22 | They called us all down to see what a million pounds looked like . |
| 23 | They started it all . |
| 24 | He did n't fancy Lizzy 's chances much if they decided they all wanted a bit of the action . |
| 25 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 26 | K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been . |
| 27 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 28 | ‘ He put his arms up to protect his face and that is why they took it all . |
| 29 | She opened her window and screamed and erm , of course the neighbours come but they was gone and they took it all they 're gold she had it on in bed , pulled it over husband neck , . |
| 30 | and all of , all of the good clean three be twos that he could find them that were season , they had , they , they took it all |