Example sentences of "it had all [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a fleeting image of a bar , of the people inside , of someone singing Chris Rea 's : ‘ Joys of Christmas , Northern Style ’ , and then it had all flashed by in less than a second . |
| 2 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 3 | David Leadbetter stated that Ballesteros was brooding , that it had all become quite a grind for him . |
| 4 | ‘ But I am not bitter over how Sam Hammam handled things even though it had all become a bit of a nightmare for me . |
| 5 | Then , this autumn it had all become much worse . |
| 6 | I made no pilgrimage to Valladolid , where it had all begun . |
| 7 | It had all begun to unravel with Sir Keith Joseph 's Damascus Road conversion in September 1974 , announced during his seminal speech in Preston . |
| 8 | From this it had all begun . |
| 9 | The Americans came ‘ over there ’ for the last act and the curtain came down in Belgium where it had all begun four horrific years before . |
| 10 | Not since she had walked down her path on that evening when it had all begun had she felt such a sure and unmistakeable feeling of threat and menace . |
| 11 | The ‘ magic ’ as she had called it in those exciting days when it had all begun , had become a curse . |
| 12 | It had all begun innocently enough . |
| 13 | Whilst much had changed , particularly since John Shaw 's retirement , the visit clearly brought back poignant memories of how it had all begun . |
| 14 | But it had all soured later . |
| 15 | There was this girl in a bath of asses milk , yuk ! and it had all turned to cheese , so they put her on the table with a dish of figs for afters . |
| 16 | Susan Tilley patted her impeccable coif and conceded that it had all turned out really well , and smiled her friendly , competent smile . |
| 17 | And then back home with Ted and Frieda both asleep and Jo gone , it had all burst up in tears Maggie had squashed down with cigarettes . |
| 18 | She could n't believe that it had all stopped , the misery , the anguish , the self-recrimination . |
| 19 | Once they had pretended they were childhood sweethearts , played at falling in love , but of course it had all ended in laughter . |
| 20 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
| 21 | Apparently my mother had worked at a big house somewhere and fallen in love , but it had all gone wrong . |
| 22 | It had all gone on Papa 's account , as Paul had brought the fact to her notice that she had never been paid a penny for all her years of work . |
| 23 | Kirov appeared a little surprised that it had all gone so smoothly . |
| 24 | It had all gone too deep for crying . |
| 25 | Then , the previous day , it had all gone wrong . |
| 26 | It had all gone wrong somehow ; she did n't know why , but it had . |
| 27 | Except that the first time round the Indians saw that Firmin survived and they ran away because they were afraid , and the second time round they saw they 'd killed Antonio , which was quite the wrong result for them so they ran away because it had all gone wrong . |
| 28 | But this morning it had all gone . |
| 29 | It had all gone — the thin veneer of self-confidence , the determination that she had been so proud of acquiring and nurturing since that first audition in Vienna . |
| 30 | The uncles had looked after her when she was young , then her professor and Hans Kramer and Busacher had begun her on her career , and then she had fallen in love and it had all gone wrong . |