Example sentences of "[adv] all she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly all she wanted to do was get home and bury her head under her pillow . |
| 2 | Deal or no mysterious deal , now that it had been established that he had not tracked her down all she wanted was for him to go . |
| 3 | Well one of their videos erm Martin had got the position of the camera set up wrong so all she got was erm arms . |
| 4 | So all she had heard of this woman was true . |
| 5 | She had seen the two women leave the hospital with babies in their arms , so all she had to do was discover where the van had taken them . |
| 6 | So all she said was , ‘ Hungry ? ’ |
| 7 | So all she said to Bella , in a voice as flat and indifferent as she could make it , was : ‘ Do n't be silly . |
| 8 | Normally all she did was belittle Artemis 's riding skills whenever she could . |
| 9 | That was probably all she had left to be proud of — she was still alive . |
| 10 | Her near nervous breakdown , which took her to the brink of giving up all she had worked for in showbusiness , was all the more surprising to outsiders given it happened in her native Australia . |
| 11 | Of course I got nowhere and she found out all she cared to know about me ( though not about my friends ) . |
| 12 | He wanted to find out all she 'd done and been , everything she thought , but she was reticent . |
| 13 | And the temptation to try out all she 'd learned was suddenly overwhelming . |
| 14 | ‘ In a word — fantastic ! ’ she replied , and would have trotted out all she 'd seen again , had not a waiter come along and placed a menu in her hands . |
| 15 | That sounded expensive , and limited spending money was really all she had at her disposal , but could she seriously spend even one night under the same roof as that … that arrogant … libertine ? |
| 16 | But yet I was suspended , right , for a long time and she after she came back all she had is a little scratch there but they took 'er to 'ospital just to make it seem serious and she come back in school the next day . |
| 17 | Now all she had to do was go and see Father McCormack and get him to sort out her Michael and she would be happy . |
| 18 | Now all she had to do was find it . |
| 19 | Now all she had to do was fool Felipe de Santis and go against all her principles . |
| 20 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 21 | Now all she had to do was wait . |
| 22 | Now all she wanted was to wash away the tension . |
| 23 | The whole night had been a strain , and now all she wanted was to get away from the throng , and , more importantly , away from Luke . |
| 24 | She 'd had enough today , and now all she wanted was to get inside and lock the door on Luke Calder and all the problems he kept bringing into her life . |
| 25 | Now all she wanted was for him to go , so she could sit down and think it over . |
| 26 | And that was n't all she had taken in . |
| 27 | The following Saturday she agreed , at least , to go with him but then all she did was pick holes : ‘ Carpet 's frayed , ’ she said , after inspecting an apparently immaculate place in Muswell Hill ; ‘ Too far from the shops , ’ of a modern luxury development on the prestigious fringes of Hampstead Heath ; and of the one he 'd had real hopes for , a newly-converted maisonette over towards Crouch End — ‘ original features all been taken out . |
| 28 | But ‘ it was evidently all she owned ; it was the home she had brought with her from the Fatherland , and would be the home she would set up on the prairie ’ . |
| 29 | His voice whispered like satin over her hair , yet all she heard was its underlying harshness . |