Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A favourite character was the Rock King , who sold all kinds of rock and nougat . |
| 2 | And so those who devised all age worship in the in the sort of early eighties or late seventies , when it was the thing , devised it either to be just worship , or to be both education and worship . |
| 3 | In the study period 18 intravenous drug misusers who met all criteria seroconverted for HIV-1 . |
| 4 | In the Preface he described the superstitions of the Irish peasantry and the rigid hold on them of the Roman Catholic priests , who used all means to confine them to the Irish language , lest if they learnt English they might converse with members of the Church of Ireland or attend its services . |
| 5 | It was far too big for one , but it was regularly cleaned by the leaseholders of the building , who maintained all services and looked out for security . |
| 6 | To those — like C. P. Scott , editor of the Manchester Guardian — who opposed all alliances in the name of the Cobdenite principle of non-intervention , he replied that non-intervention was a sterile doctrine that would cut Britain off from its rightful place within the emerging community of European nations . |
| 7 | Day to day supervision was conducted by the IFNS ( MF ) who collected all documentation and examined it immediately . |
| 8 | John Watts proved not the most able of administrators and when his term expired , charge of the Garden passed to Samuel Doody , an Apothecary with a London practice , who collected all manner of natural history specimens and was a prolific writer on the sciences . |
| 9 | But other shocks to the system followed in quick succession : a new language and culture ; the insensitivity , not always unintentional , of foster parents , teachers and hostel administrators ; the cruelty of other children ( and some adults ) who equated all things German with Nazism ; the coming-to-terms with the long-term or permanent loss of family and friends who had been left behind , and the awareness that refugees could not expect to be treated other than as second-class citizens — to mention only the common causes of illness and depression . |
| 10 | King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty . |
| 11 | Working holidays , similar to the defunct Woofer scheme ( Working Weekends on Organic Farms ) met with mixed success and varied from the chap who took all day to clean out the rabbits that I , 8½ months pregnant , did in half an hour , to those that were accompanied by their little horrors . |
| 12 | Tolstoy clearly appealed to him as a great apostle of non-violence , and one who enabled all votaries of ahi sā to realize and understand that non-violence involved not only the negative attitude of freedom from anger and hate but also the positive attitude of love for all men . |
| 13 | I said yeah , I said , who did all day yesterday ? |
| 14 | He who possessed all things , laid it all aside , he who was rich became poor |
| 15 | Top of the line demonstration team , who won all honours in a 1991 UK tour , L to R : Dan Tabor ( the originator ) Ron Reich ( the outstanding individual performer ) Pam Kirk and Michael Dennis . |
| 16 | Naturally I am addressing this letter particularly to those of you — the majority — who resisted all temptations and ‘ pressure selling ’ techniques to which you were exposed , and stayed with us ! |
| 17 | They were on exactly the same wavelength as Massim d'Azeglio who said , after Italy had been politically unified : ‘ We have made Italy , now we have to make Italians ’ , that is out of the inhabitants of the peninsula who had all sorts of identities , but not one based on a language they did not speak , and a state that had come into existence over their heads . |
| 18 | The Cat in question of course is the Dr Zeuss character who had all manner of surprises in his Hat for the delight and amazement of tiny tots everywhere . |
| 19 | During the next two days , as we tried to discover the fate of the 11 men , we met with the most powerful warlord in the country : General Aideed , who denied all knowledge of the incident and proved unable , or unwilling to do anything to find out . |
| 20 | In the shop Lydia heard rumours of men who sat up all night amongst their carrots , a shotgun across their knees for fear of jealous rivals who would come under cover of darkness to pour paraquat on the feathery fronds ; of women who stood all night in their kitchens baking , baking in the quest for the one , the perfect , cake or loaf . |