Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] all " in BNC.
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1 | mum , I read out all these school names , see if you know what they are , |
2 | The forecast from Livorno has spoken of increasing winds and I laid out all the chain before we rowed ashore ( feeling curiously British and eccentric using oars among so many outboards ) for the pasta and wine we had been promising ourselves since mid-morning . |
3 | About two months before , I sold almost all my shares in order to buy the flat . |
4 | Each morning started off with me trying to find enough small change to get something to eat , and gradually , I sold off all my army kit at government surplus stores to finance my drinking . |
5 | Actually I checked out all about |
6 | I found out all about it . |
7 | ‘ But then I found out all the others were too — Barbra Streisand and Gene Kelly , the director , ’ he said . |
8 | I found out all I could about the various parties including the Fascist party . |
9 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
10 | And by the end of the two weeks I was just slapping paint here , there and everywhere and I painted over all the locks and things like that , because I did n't really care too much about it . |
11 | Joining the army gave him the opportunity to play full time : ‘ I practised mostly all day , and in the evenings . |
12 | I freewheeled virtually all the way . |
13 | Faldo , who shares second place with Yorkshireman Mark Roe and Australians Greg Norman and Peter O'Malley , said : ‘ I played well all day but I lost a couple of shots , and that was a shame . |
14 | Thus I stripped out all Wavebreaker 's unnecessary furniture and equipment , and I installed extra fresh-water tanks and fuel bunkers . |
15 | These kids was coming at us once and six of them grabbed hold of me and when I turned round all the others had fucked off and left me to get a kicking … |
16 | I soon discovered that if someone arrived late all the remains of the plates of pasta were put together and presented to him or her . |
17 | We do not exercise power over explosions and crackling and snapping of fire like the strangers , we fall back into the waves — as Dulé 's mother did , the young woman I dug up all those years ago , who had been drowned , who had returned to the deep blue . |
18 | Knew we 'd have to do the old ones , so I dug out all the figures of the last two years ’ productions . ’ |
19 | I walked back all the way from Fleet Street to Radnor Walk , which took a while … ’ |
20 | I spent almost all of them on a visit to a barber and on a meal , after which I felt my humanity returning . |
21 | With a shilling guidebook that was woefully inaccurate in its measurement of distances but was the only one then available , I hunted down all the hundred holes then known ( today there are thousands ) ; it was not an easy task because many have concealed entrances , but great fun . |
22 | With deliberation , I pulled up all my orchids and threw them , strewn with crumbs of earth , into the wheel-barrow . |
23 | I worked hard all week and so felt that I deserved them , I suppose . |
24 | I said , I worked hard all day and I danced all night . |
25 | It 's possible I knew subconsciously all along what I was going to do with the gun . |
26 | You see , one thing that influenced me was reading about the great American champs and I saw how all the good champs were side-tracked , avoided , yet always seemed to make it late . |
27 | I counted up all the unbroken sticks of pastel and you cunning so-and-sos had put twice the number of pieces of blue there to catch us out . |
28 | Yeah I sorted out all my ten p ready to go and they were there . |
29 | I gathered up all my courage and went home and we went for a walk and I just told him . |
30 | I thought out all the sex facts . |