Example sentences of "[vb past] all [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lara and Arthurton raised West Indian hopes with a left-handed partnership of 52 for the fourth wicket but both were undone by Donald 's speed in the final session and the match seemed all but signed , sealed and delivered to South Africa entering the rest day . |
| 2 | The minor disputes between the two countries , over reparations for damaged embassies in Tehran and London and some other outstanding debts , seemed all but settled and a group of MPs were visiting the Iranian capital . |
| 3 | The consequential shock he suffered all but paralysed him . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd all but given you up , Father , ’ said Owen eagerly , holding his stirrup for him while Adam took the bridle . |
| 5 | It was n't intended ; none of them had been paying any attention to the world round about : they 'd all but walked into one another . |
| 6 | He 'd all but forgotten his own early childhood at The Grange , when he had been the gardener 's scruffy little lad , graciously permitted by Lady Debrace to play with her son . |
| 7 | Good lord , she 'd all but begged him to take her , yet he 'd walked away . |
| 8 | Judge Hart said Munn confessed all when interviewed by police but no-one else had been charged with the robbery . |
| 9 | He did all but say , ‘ Stop messing about . ’ |
| 10 | With more than 500 results declared , early hopes that the Mr Kinnock could enter Downing Street at the head of a minority Government had all but evaporated . |
| 11 | Indeed he almost felt for music , wild dancing now : Winnie returned , with two wines , which was just as well as Rab had all but drained her glass . |
| 12 | With five ends completed they had opened up a 39-22 lead , and at the halfway mark had all but tied up the title at a convincing 78-37 ahead . |
| 13 | But , before the devaluation , the Department of Economic Affairs had failed pretty consistently over three years to actually break the monopoly of Treasury advice and the National Plan had all but gone under . |
| 14 | It did n't matter which lead mode I selected , when I 'd pulled enough gain out of the system to create the required feel , the volume had all but gone , rendering the sound pretty unusable since it was way below that of my other patches . |
| 15 | As the hippies had all but gone the police and the RSPCA pounced on a lorry , inside was a horse which had been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 16 | But despite fears that rain over the weekend had all but ended The Fellow 's cross-channel raid , yesterday 's drying wind has encouraged connections . |
| 17 | The 24-year-old Scot had all but shelved his Formula One ambitions for a year when the Pacific Racing team , with whom he had negotiated a deal , postponed their plans for a year after a last-minute sponsorship hitch . |
| 18 | He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out . |
| 19 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 20 | The chance that Britain would work with the French on the new air-launched nuclear missile they have developed is on again , after Mrs Thatcher had all but made up her mind to buy American . |
| 21 | By the middle of the twentieth century , Adorno found himself confronted with a cultural field in which the squeezed and narrowing pinnacle of aesthetic difference and negation had all but detached itself completely from the squat , commodified mass of capitalist ‘ affirmative ’ culture . |
| 22 | By 1968 , the clean-cut image of lads in suits and neatly trimmed hair was definitely for the birds , but not the Byrds , and the Monkees had all but swung from their last branch ; the exploitation of four young men who were plucked from audition lines and manufactured into an internationally famous foursome was all but over . |
| 23 | She had all but crawled downstairs to answer the imperative summons , yawning as she tugged open the door . |
| 24 | It should not be thought that Unionists enjoyed such a situation , for they certainly did not , but nor can it be suggested that they saw any real alternative , for in truth the basis of agreement on which parliamentary government " rested had all but broken down . |
| 25 | ‘ Let's black him , ’ Fergal suddenly announced , when they had all but drunk their way through the bottle . |
| 26 | Even Father had all but stood to attention at the very mention of the pucca angrez saab . |
| 27 | ‘ At the end of last season I had all but decided to finish my career playing junior rugby , ’ said McMaster . |
| 28 | For Doumen 's six-year-old had already won most of France 's top chasing honours including the big one , the Grand Steeplechase de Paris , and had all but beaten the best of the British at Cheltenham back in March 1991 when only the nose of Garrison Savannah denied him in the Gold Cup . |
| 29 | While composers such as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen condemned all manifestations of the museum culture , and Boulez suggested that opera houses should be burned down , the slender supply of new operas was left either to an older , impervious generation or to composers whose attitude to tradition was either complexly ambivalent ( Henze ) or had all but bypassed the modernist lineage ( Britten and Tippett ) . |
| 30 | Her agent had all but ordered her in front of a firing squad when she had broken the news to him — it was fortunate that she had already pencilled a six-month-long break into her diary , intending to spend the time writing new material . |