Example sentences of "of it all " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 2 | His own vicissitudes in love are a feature of the story he tells , as is his attempt to understand his disconcerting brother and to produce reflections on the meaning of it all . |
| 3 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
| 4 | When you begin to think about it you grow dizzy , your stomach turns over , not just at the commercialism of it all , but at the aestheticism of it all , not just at the chequebooks but at the Intelligent Conversations , not just at the fifty percent but at the Sensitive Responses , not just at the winks and nods but at the Hushed Silence in the Presence of Art . |
| 5 | When you begin to think about it you grow dizzy , your stomach turns over , not just at the commercialism of it all , but at the aestheticism of it all , not just at the chequebooks but at the Intelligent Conversations , not just at the fifty percent but at the Sensitive Responses , not just at the winks and nods but at the Hushed Silence in the Presence of Art . |
| 6 | Twenty-two athletes spend five days for the most part watching their teammates do all the work , and at the end of it all , everyone is quite happy to settle for a draw . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you want us to get rid of it all for you ? ’ the man asked . |
| 8 | Jay lay on her bed , sipping coffee and touching her own face with the tenderness she felt for Lucy , closed her eyes with the dizzy perfection of that moment in the conservatory when they had touched , when she had touched Lucy , and Lucy had walked beside her , seen what she saw ; when her eyes had met Jay 's , dancing with the glory of it all . |
| 9 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 10 | But och , who would want to live here , out of it all , and with a weary hill to climb … |
| 11 | By the end of it all the mind-body problem will loom large — but this may be because we are now a little closer to it . |
| 12 | And to cap it all , the bland sleazy boredom of it all . |
| 13 | and despite my inbuilt irreverence for all sacred stones of all establishment temples , I too had grown up with an aura of awe for the British and all things British , and London was meant to encompass represent and symbolize the best of the best of it all . |
| 14 | The upshot of it all is that Major-General Holomisa has made Transkei a haven of sorts , a thorn in Pretoria 's side , for the ANC . |
| 15 | Good has come out of it all , she says . |
| 16 | ‘ The commercial aspects are very good , of course — though I still find the teaching and research spin-offs the most exciting part of it all , ’ says Dr Jones . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt I was doing everything I could to nourish and protect the baby and I was so sure about the rightness of it all that I did n't want a scan . |
| 18 | And at the end of it all you 'll really know Wales . |
| 19 | My apprenticeship was in a shop for a year working and adapting and changing and getting an understanding of it all . |
| 20 | Nathan was awestruck with the audacity of it all , but when he turned to tell me how impressed he was I was asleep . |
| 21 | The glacier ends in a cliff that calves small icebergs that head seaward , grind to a halt when they hit the sand base of the river and dissolve in tears at the indignity of it all . |
| 22 | It is n't just the figures , it 's the intensity , the uncomplicated brutality of it all . |
| 23 | The tour operator for a trip to New York , Delhi , or any distant land will stress the comfort and the excitement of it all , the new places , people and life-style , and the sense of romance and adventure . |
| 24 | He was joined there by Amanda 's brother , Norton ( now Lord Romsey ) , and his fiancée , Penelope Eastwood ; and although the cousins had never been especially friendly before , a strong bond grew between them as they talked day after day , trying to make sense of it all . |
| 25 | She railed against the formality and the dreariness of it all , balked at the routine ; her mood swinging back and forth , from tears and misery to elation . |
| 26 | His wife had been plagued by the press from the beginning , and coping with the stress of it all was simply too much . |
| 27 | What , you may ask , is the meaning of it all ? |
| 28 | If they switch off and the closed-circuit figures drop , the present heady economics of it all begin to crumble . |
| 29 | What do investors think of it all ? |
| 30 | Until he cut it down in later years , his run-up was extremely long — and his saunter back to his mark extremely slow — but the speed that it generated undoubtedly justified the length , and the grace of it all was an aesthetic delight . |