Example sentences of "all [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her small-voiced reply was all but lost in the wind . |
| 2 | The idea of publication had been all but strangled by the rejection of ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ . |
| 3 | Clinton 's victory was all but assured by the youth vote . |
| 4 | She all but tripped over a clothes line embedded in the tussocky grass . |
| 5 | While the others are assigned to carvings which were partially damaged David Esterly has to recreate something which was all but destroyed in the fire . |
| 6 | Compare the problems in Glen Nevis where in summer traffic all but grinds to a halt , to see the possible outcome . |
| 7 | Cardboard City all but vanished in the daytime , and reappeared like a gypsy camp at night . |
| 8 | Silvio , crouched just outside , all but tumbled into the room . |
| 9 | Flustered , Rory turned her back on him and all but ran for the kitchen . |
| 10 | Shae turned and all but ran from the coffee-bar , ignoring Gavin when he called after her . |
| 11 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 12 | When Hook , communing with his ego , murmured , ‘ How still the night is ; nothing sounds alive … split my infinitives , but ‘ t is my hour of triumph ’ , the mast creaked ominously and all but fell against the backcloth . |
| 13 | Ajayi was in the games room still , hunkered over the small table in her furs , huge as a bear , perched on a small stool all but hidden beneath the furs and cloths which smothered her old frame . |
| 14 | By the poetry of history the crown of the British sovereign , who ceased to rule in all but name in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , is the only one of consequence , the papal tiara aside , still used in the rite of coronation . |
| 15 | Add the possible problem with the wart , her upset at being all but mobbed by the crowd on a very hot day , and her apparently being carried off a true course in the straight by Achilles , and you have a long menu of excuses or explanations . |
| 16 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 17 | Her whisper , all but drowned in the hiss of the flames , sounded fluttery and frail . |
| 18 | BASICALLY , THESE are the blues after they got molested , divested and all but drowned in the swamps ; to this end the Babes are the inheritors of The Birthday Party 's unholy rule book . |
| 19 | Her meanings all but drowned in the immensity of it all . |
| 20 | For a fleeting second as she crossed the floor Shannon was all but swamped by a feeling of panic that bade her run now , while she still had the chance . |
| 21 | Then he stood up and strode from the room , and she all but collapsed into the chair he 'd just vacated , feeling as though she 'd been battered by a storm at sea . |
| 22 | She slid him a sideways glance , only to be all but felled by a wave of longing , and closed her eyes despairingly , swaying slightly where she stood . |
| 23 | Accompanying this personalised warfare , there returned a chivalry and a sporting instinct that had all but vanished with the advent of the army of the masses . |
| 24 | To make matters worse , the Czech-Slovak clearing system has also all but ground to a halt and simple financial transactions between companies in the two the states are currently taking one to two months to complete , according to local businessmen . |
| 25 | But they have all but disappeared in the West . |
| 26 | Whilst VisiCalc has all but disappeared from the scene it once set there are a host of new and vigorous contenders for the crown . |
| 27 | It is a political tragedy that this whole subject has all but disappeared from the world 's agenda under the impact of the past three astonishing years in Europe . |
| 28 | The work of the European Commission has all but come to a halt . |
| 29 | Now that preparations had been completed for Artai 's enthronement there was very little to do , and the normal business of the court — administration , legislation , taxation — had all but come to a halt . |
| 30 | The Doctor had been all but forgotten by the Chelonians , which suited him perfectly . |