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 .
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