Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 2 | How would you answer the allegation that that is unduly restrictive , bearing in mind the sort of factors which Professor Lock referred to like us all needing and liking more space ? |
| 3 | Benny 's head ached as she tried to work it all out . |
| 4 | She said he threw the baby around , tried to strangle them all and ripped up the furniture . |
| 5 | If you tried to remember them all as just these equations , you 'd be very easily getting confused about which one was which and you 'll just get your head cluttered with all sorts of stuff and so that way something that you know , something you can bring it back to . |
| 6 | When he left I phoned to wish him all the best and he said , ‘ keep on picking people 's brains ’ . ’ |
| 7 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 8 | But Mick and I never questioned ourselves ; we just tried to keep it all on the road . ’ |
| 9 | The sawdust and bran mixture not only provided a soft base on which to rest the corpse but also acted as a sponge for exuded matter ; the side lining masked the bare wood ; the side-sheets assisted in the presentation of the corpse ; and the frill along the visible top edge formed a seal when the lid was screwed down and helped to keep it all airtight . |
| 10 | Just as he said , Farmer Plant 's teenage niece , Harriet , was delighted to have her to help in the stables , and promised to teach her all about the care and feeding of horses as well . |
| 11 | Tried to get it all in . |
| 12 | CHARLES TRIED TO think it all out on the Saturday morning . |
| 13 | Bannered ‘ Women Face the '90s ’ , the Time cover features a woman with a briefcase in one hand and a baby in the other -a symbol of those women who feel betrayed by feminism because , as the magazine says , they tried to have it all and now they 've just plain had it . |
| 14 | ‘ You promised to tell me all about it . |
| 15 | I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it . |
| 16 | Hilda , he wrote , when I ventured to tell her all her troubles were her own fault : You are so cold . |
| 17 | she never , never could , and I said what I tried to tell you all |
| 18 | Here they got put it all out there . |
| 19 | But from what he 'd heard it all broke down every year and had to be started up again in the spring , and — ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said . |
| 20 | One woman drifted away with a couple of the children as if she 'd heard it all before . |
| 21 | ‘ Tod Richardson , ’ I repeat , speaking flatly , nodding to Vinnie Dirkin as if I 'd guessed it all the while . |
| 22 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 23 | After the trials of Halton , Cranwell was a haven , With my pay now being nearly 30 a week , I invested in a motorcycle — a square tank Rudge of questionable vintage — for £4 ( at a pound a week ) , but soon cured myself of the motorcycle bug that seemed to affect us all at the time . |
| 24 | Oh dear , if only you 'd explained it all to me last night ! ’ she said accusingly to Fran . |
| 25 | I sorted through my frocks but could find none that fitted me ; I 'd outgrown them all and was waiting until I 'd grown into Liza 's castoffs . |
| 26 | She wrote as if she 'd hated me all my life . ’ |
| 27 | He got there at four o'clock he had four fish he could catch I think out of the ten for the week cos he caught the others and he 'd caught them all by half past four . |
| 28 | She just could n't say then that she 'd made it all up . |
| 29 | I experienced a moment of complete terror in which my mind raced — I had been discovered after all ; it was obvious that I had a limp ; everyone could see it ; they 'd seen it all along and had chosen this moment to hit me with it , my weakest moment … |
| 30 | I 'd had enough — I 'd seen it all . |