Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 How much energy and time we wasted in all our endless love tragedies and their complications !
2 Then we lived in all this central portion .
3 erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry .
4 We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left .
5 After they had driven for a while , Edward said : ‘ Are n't we involved at all now ?
6 And if if this was covered up here I E this this black dot was say made white let's say , we 'd only have two matching and if that was made white we 'd have one and then if we changed at all that top row we 'd have zero matching .
7 He used to run ceilidhs in Toonagh — that 's a village near where my parents come from — every Friday night and we used to all go over there — ‘ t was the thing we most looked forward to all week . ’
8 There used to be a lot of older houses and we used to all go in them .
9 Without ceremony , we headed past all these busy people and knocked on the half-open door of the secretary 's office .
10 We stopped at all of them .
11 We identified with all of these women , because none of them had anything to do with Being Beautiful .
12 We arrived at all of the locations in good time , although the traffic in Stoke did put us under a little pressure towards the end , we finished with a whole five minutes to spare !
13 We paid for all these dodgy old ladies
14 We talked of all we would do when he was strong enough , and I put everything else out of mind and concentrated on being positive and cheerful myself , which was not always easy but I was determined to behave normally and to treat him as a convalescent and not as a sick man .
15 Then to find all the OTHER under-5 activities we called at all the Sports Centres and Community centres in the area , and finally we also looked at ANY noticeboard ANY where !
16 How we managed without all these aids — in fact by merely buying a coffin and getting on with it — I ca n't imagine , but I know that we were lucky to be living in the UK and not the US , where the open coffin , or at least one quarter open at the head end , is de rigueur .
17 What we were expecting and erm he wanted to know , to a large extent , how we felt about all the erm things that are going on in the parish .
18 She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move .
19 And then we stayed a few days in London and we went to the Baths and we went to the zoo and we went to all the science , by either the old trams or the first of the buses that Cos they complete with tram-riding and that was rather exciting in London , seeing the all the top hats and people in coats , tails and things .
20 We went through all this in the late-Seventies with Bethnal Green Hospital — a much-loved general hospital that was first geriatrified and then closed completely .
21 We went through all this a couple of years ago with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys and at first I thought Matchbox must be deliberately creating a shortage to whip up demand .
22 We went through all this together . ’
23 We went through all the books , a crash course literally .
24 Then , calmly : ‘ We went through all of that when it happened , Cardiff .
25 ‘ You do n't realize , ’ says Myra , Michael 's wife , from the far end of the sofa , ‘ the fantastic thing is that we went through all this scene twenty minutes ago , in the car on the way here .
26 We went through all the lines of business we write — there were over 100 — and removed those that were n't profitable such as multi-tenure commercial property — a terrible risk — and unoccupied premises .
27 You 've had various references to P P G seven , er I 'm sure if we went through all the various proofs of evidence you could reconstruct the entire of P P G seven .
28 O K , erm , hopefully we 've had a bit of fun , but at the same time , we go , we went through all the technical information .
29 I once chaired at , somebody may remember a sort of constitutional commission as it was grandly called , which we went through all these things with a tooth-comb in order to try to get the composition of the executive committee er , right and appropriate for er , this current time .
30 Because we knew the speeds you know , and er the working of the machinery , the tools and equipment that were necessary to do the jobs , the , the application of er instrumentation you know , er what kind of materials ought to be used , er and , and we went into all that you know , in , in regard to setting up new times .
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