Example sentences of "[adv] all i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps all I did was to elevate trivia into a principle . |
| 2 | And as I say I 'm not really , that is basically all I wanted to say . |
| 3 | I tried your mobile as well but I did n't think it would work up there in the mountains and sure enough all I got was the recording saying try again later . ’ |
| 4 | So all I 'd got ta check was the fuses . |
| 5 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 6 | and er , so all I had to do was the tenons really and , and at least you know that they 're symmetrical |
| 7 | so all I knew was that she got the divorce and |
| 8 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |
| 9 | That was not all I learnt that day . |
| 10 | All day yesterday all I heard was did n't that suit you ? |
| 11 | I mean , I 'm a pretty good shoplifter , like , but yesterday all I got was two bloody Barbie Dolls , y'know , a tenner each , like . |
| 12 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 13 | That was four , I think that was probably all I had , two books , two plays , it 's quite enough . |
| 14 | That was Thursday I put it out all I told you did n't I ? |
| 15 | My daughter 's welfare seemed far more important , and it was really all I thought about . |
| 16 | " That is really all I wanted to see you about . " |
| 17 | So far so good ; now all I had to do was to muck up my second throw and ‘ Jaz ’ would be the winner . |
| 18 | Now all I had to do was wait . |
| 19 | Now all I wanted was for James to ask me out and I would 've when out with him you know . |
| 20 | Now all I did was park my car in the garden centre , buy a small cactus and walk across the road to X-ray . |
| 21 | It was strange not being able to communicate but someone who could speak English was always on hand to translate and often all I needed were those wonderful smiles and greetings from people . |
| 22 | She comes down here all I did was put me coat on , right ? |
| 23 | But all seemed to go well for me as I climbed from boat to boat successfully , and then all I had to do was get to the wall from the last boat . |
| 24 | It had happened at a time when all I had to offer him was absolute misery for both of us . |
| 25 | I 'd be alright as long as I could go on a route where all I had to do was turn left but as soon as I turn right |
| 26 | then again all I turned round and said the bloke that I hit , he said he did n't want to press charges , but then I thought the police can bring out their own prosecution against me but they turned round and said no he does n't want to press charges so we 'll just caution you again . |