Example sentences of "[adj] all [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as usual all I saw was the hairy form bounding away out of sight round the corner of the house . |
| 2 | that all he said was true ? |
| 3 | The doctors did all that all he had was in the leg . |
| 4 | Was that all it had been ? |
| 5 | And we got the union to er all all they did was to help us , was to pay for the text books that we had . |
| 6 | Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so |
| 7 | This was chiefly because Mr Jones was absorbed with what he had read about ‘ problem children ’ being in desperate need of love and attention and at first all he wanted was professional guidance on how to give it more effectively . |