Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [vb past] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small blooms of fire exploded all around the sandbagged post and the steel door , the defenders huddling down for cover . |
| 2 | From above him the sounds of movement had all but ceased ; only the creak of a solitary floorboard broke the silence now . |
| 3 | Ace half turned back to the shuttle , pointed towards the sprouting hemisphere ( like chunks of cheddar stuck all over half a grapefruit , she thought ) , and aimed the suit towards the shape that looked like the nose of an asteroid cruncher . |
| 4 | Broca ( 1961 , in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) had reported that a series of patients with severe disturbances of speech had all suffered damage to the inferior part of the third frontal convolutions of their left hemispheres and Jackson ( in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) had described cases of ‘ petit mal ’ epilepsy which involved only a limited number of ‘ faculties ’ . |
| 5 | Except where a delay or derogation was allowed under the Directive — and the UK had now also accepted that its grounds for derogation had all along been invalid — ‘ all supplies of drinking water in the United Kingdom were required to be in compliance with the Directive by 20 July ’ . |