Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] all [art] " in BNC.

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1 The duties attached to some of these appointments were not too arduous , which made them all the more attractive to a landed gentleman with other interests but a great desire for an increased income .
2 Always small things , nothing she could have a qualm about accepting , which made them all the more delightful .
3 Which made it all the harder to understand why Wilkinson had not begun with Cantona in the side on a summery day that seemed ideally suited to his ball-playing skills .
4 And the minority who chose to behave in this way were mostly aware that they had no one to blame but themselves — which made it all the more painful .
5 He said it very simply , which made it all the more believable .
6 So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage .
7 When Mr. Mendez spoke to him you believed it all the more .
8 And then er so our Emma said , Oh well if you 're not do n't want do n't want these to come she said alright and she said she all the invitations and threw them all on the fire .
9 Innocent — and so they fancied her all the more .
10 ‘ They had their own little bits of garden but they were never made to help when they were young , which is probably why they liked it all the more . ’
11 It made him all the more determined to do something .
12 That I could put no name to it made it all the more tantalizing , like a song when only the tune remains and the words are lost by time .
13 It hurt her all the more and she slumped to her knee .
14 It was , as the Duchess said in her speech , an exciting event because Derbyshire had so few smaller manor houses of this type open to the public — and what made it all the more special was the fact that Eyam Hall is still the family home of the Wrights , who built ( or rather rebuilt ) it , a few years after the plague , in 1671 .
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