Example sentences of "all [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all lived in this sty , just off Wimbledon Hill . |
| 2 | ‘ No-one at all got off that train except me ? ’ |
| 3 | All mesmerized by this folly , he wrote , all the Goldbergs and McGrindles , the Mosses and Baiocchis , the Honeymen and McGoughs . |
| 4 | Alone on a holiday and trying to come to terms with his grief , he reflects that ‘ the most cruel pain of all occurred at such moments , when I tried to face the still unacceptable fact that I could never tell her anything again . |
| 5 | And if they all spied on each other all the time the great thing , the only thing , which would , could , make life tolerable was to pretend that they did n't . |
| 6 | One of Laura 's favourite psychological ploys , to pre-empt criticism , was telling people how like Bernard they were themselves ; Ari , Tim Clifford and her own daughter Jane , all came into this category but were , in reality , quite dissimilar . |
| 7 | cos they only told me bits , they all came round this morning and er , we were having a laugh actually , it was |
| 8 | The colours all yelled at each other ; most of the furniture was cheap and shabby and it was in a clutter of smelly untidiness , but the general effect was of a room somebody had made the best of according to their taste , and enjoyed living in . |
| 9 | Run ! ’ the officer ordered , and we all rushed in that direction . |
| 10 | They all glanced at each other in dismay . |
| 11 | Pale with fright , they all stared at each other . |
| 12 | It all coincided at that point . |
| 13 | They all looked at each other . |
| 14 | They all watched the door as it opened and Donald 's face poked round the edge , and then they all looked at each other and they all thought the same thought : Now ? |
| 15 | St John gave them the letter to read , and then they all looked at each other , smiling rather tiredly . |
| 16 | The powerhouses of film production in the previous decade nearly all wilted in this atmosphere . |
| 17 | They all knew without much discussion what ‘ like that ’ meant : cynical , bored , boring , burnt-out . |
| 18 | The shyness , the hesitancy , the gratitude , all spoke in that face which drew the eye and held it . |
| 19 | Indeed , in the very aftermath of the elections , a series of government initiatives all ran into some difficulty . |
| 20 | Yet the reader of medieval literature and letters must be constantly amazed at the degree to which folk with any leisure at all travelled in former times . |
| 21 | In fact some of the Republics have such such a mixed population , it 's almost impossible to see how they could be separated out , Russians and Tartars erm , and all the rest of it , all intermingled to some extent . |