Example sentences of "all [subord] [verb] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Cardboard City all but vanished in the daytime , and reappeared like a gypsy camp at night . |
| 6 | Silvio , crouched just outside , all but tumbled into the room . |
| 7 | Flustered , Rory turned her back on him and all but ran for the kitchen . |
| 8 | Shae turned and all but ran from the coffee-bar , ignoring Gavin when he called after her . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her whisper , all but drowned in the hiss of the flames , sounded fluttery and frail . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Her meanings all but drowned in the immensity of it all . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But they have all but disappeared in the West . |
| 20 | Whilst VisiCalc has all but disappeared from the scene it once set there are a host of new and vigorous contenders for the crown . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Doctor had been all but forgotten by the Chelonians , which suited him perfectly . |
| 23 | The young woman all but danced on the spot in her impatience . |
| 24 | Improved NFS performance also lies at the heart of the company 's desire to recapture ground in the market for heavily networked NFS systems and software which has been all but hi-jacked by the likes of Auspex Systems Inc , Legato Systems Inc , Interphase Corp and Ceram Inc . |
| 25 | The authority of the Azerbaijan CP had all but collapsed in the face of the latest upsurge of Popular Front support . |
| 26 | For their sins , they were both nailed and all but crucified on the reef . |
| 27 | The Smooth Operator had all but dropped off the face of the planet . |
| 28 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 29 | Shannon was all but overwhelmed by the urge to slap his face — just who in sweet heaven did he think he was ? |