Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that they got to all go off at once . |
| 2 | They asked for all the recommendations for a carer , and home support to be implemented . |
| 3 | Treaty in so far as they applied to all owners , charterers , managers and operators of British fishing vessels and to 75 per cent . |
| 4 | The articles were quite big at first , then got smaller until they were maybe only one or two paragraphs long , then they stopped at all . |
| 5 | They payed for all this with their sweat and their lives , just like the Garrimperos today . |
| 6 | They entered for all parts of the competition , but submitted a Jacobean design for the War Department and the block plan separately . |
| 7 | They entered for all parts of the competition , and their designs for the Foreign Office and the War Department were both placed seventh on the assessors ' lists , but Burn did not put them so highly , and in the end both designs were rejected by the judges , and their block plan , which had not even been seen by the assessors and presumably never tested against the conditions , was awarded third prize . |
| 8 | It was a memorable tour by the Pakistanis and the bottom line must be the magnificent spectacle of cricket they provided for all who watched them . |
| 9 | Well then as the unit got bigger , as I said , the room at the offices in the Lock was n't big enough so we moved from there to Alma Green Infant School , that 's the school now they used for all kinds of social activities during the day and th on that side by the car park . |
| 10 | Between 1840 and 1880 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels criticized and restructured the ideas they gleaned from all three sources , and combined them into a potent synthesis which they acclaimed as the first ‘ scientific socialism , . |
| 11 | They came from all parts of the kingdom and abroad . |
| 12 | They came in all shapes and sizes ; and all of them claimed to have become permanent partners . |
| 13 | THIN , fat , young , old — they came in all shapes and sizes as the TODAY Cellulite Roadshow was launched yesterday . |
| 14 | If they differed at all , the differences would seem to have resided only in their membership — in specific individuals or personalities . |
| 15 | This was especially so with people who were likely to borrow large sums of money , if they borrowed at all . |
| 16 | Perhaps the last occasion on which they figured at all prominently was at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia in 1856 . |
| 17 | I suppose the main reason was that I was so astonished to find that they existed at all . |
| 18 | While other constitutional texts , where they existed at all , have for long periods been purely notional , national autonomy never ceased to have a certain operation reality . |
| 19 | In as far as they existed at all , relations with these countries were conducted as between tributaries of the Chinese empire . |
| 20 | They walked on all fours , preferred a diet of raw meat , they howled like wolves and lacked any form of speech . |
| 21 | In doing so they bequeathed to all subsequent generations a psychology flawed by conflict and neuroticism and a social life marred by incompatible interests and painful compromises . |
| 22 | Gagarin , in 1721 ) , the tsar 's ‘ Siberian satraps ’ enjoyed almost plenipotentiary powers in what they regarded as their own freedom , which they exercised with all the arbitrary and unbridled ruthlessness of a military dictatorship and the methods of a police state . |
| 23 | They seemed to look through and beyond him and to focus — if they focused at all — on something infinitely remote . |
| 24 | If they worked at all , they were late , had huge cost overruns , failed to live up to expectations , and lost out to their rivals ' more carefully thought through systems . |
| 25 | Also , the detailed cross-tabulations ( not in the Appendix ) showed that when APR and/or total credit cost was lower for shorter repayment periods , people who had originally chosen the very longest possible repayment period tended to switch — if they switched at all — to a repayment period right at the other end of the scale . |
| 26 | When people were shown APR to start with , and then additionally shown the total cost of credit , they more often switched to a shorter repayment period ( if they switched at all — and differences were very small anyway ) . |
| 27 | Newcastle had lost just one League game away from home before this and they started with all the confidence of a four-match winning run behind them . |
| 28 | How they coped with all that armour … |
| 29 | They hinted to all the women dependent on them in various ways that their shrill cries rendered them boring , humourless , sexually unappetising ; they talked of castration by these same women and wept and offered themselves as small soft snails out of their snailshells to be cosseted back by mummy into strength and pleasure-giving . |
| 30 | Those two crooks must have been killed and resurrected about seven times when they fell into all Kevin 's traps and things . |