Example sentences of "all [verb] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the summer of 1419 all Normandy was his : the major walled towns of the duchy , Caen , Falaise , Cherbourg , and Rouen had all fallen to the English besiegers . |
| 2 | There are eighteen species of penguin worldwide , all confined to the southern hemisphere . |
| 3 | He had come to the village at last light bearing a balaclava helmet , a webbing belt and trousers , and a mess tin all belonging to the Presidential Guard . |
| 4 | The worry of monetary problems , marketing uncertainties , the weather , etc. , all contributed to the mental fatigue mentioned by quite a number . |
| 5 | Until the early 1960s the effects of rural depopulation , the dilapidation of much rural property and the cost of travel to urban centres all contributed to the lower price of rural housing compared with urban areas . |
| 6 | For the full-time units the experience of South Wales was perhaps typical — high stocking rates , small fields , ageing farmers or parents , and old buildings all contributed to the extra work load anticipated in the future . |
| 7 | Although the Christian faith is no longer at the heart of the culture of this land , and the Church is peripheral to the lives of many people , mid-twentieth-century British composers such as Vaughan Williams , Walton , Britten , Berkeley , Mathias and Leighton have all contributed to the choral repertoire . |
| 8 | The conditions of service , the harshness of the environment , the atrocious difficulties associated with travel and food supplies , the ravages of scurvy , and the son of men who went out in search of new lands for the tsar , all contributed to the tense atmosphere which sometimes erupted into bloody conflict . |
| 9 | K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been . |