Example sentences of "it [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is too relaxed for all the questions with which he is being bombarded , and full of wonder at how golfers such as Nicklaus and Watson have coped with it for all these years . |
| 2 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 3 | We got it for all the tournament . |
| 4 | I think it was a very good school for its time , and I am deeply indebted to it for all I learned , but it was , I consider now , very strict . |
| 5 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 6 | It was difficult to draw well in such conditions , among the noise and confusion , standing in mud in the squalls of rain , but worth it for all that . |
| 7 | The Romanians had played it for all it was worth . |
| 8 | It 's the ‘ What 's in it for all of us ? ’ factor . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope we can reach agreement with China and that , where we have disagreements , they wo n't poison our relationship right across the board — certainly wo n't poison it for all time , ’ said Mr Patten . |
| 10 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 11 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 12 | Many companies , including John Lewis and Woolworths , use it for all their cracker cartons . |
| 13 | To her , the building was endlessly exciting , and she liked it for all the reasons that most people would specify as particular causes for dislike . |
| 14 | Since , due to familiarity , we are more at home with the second notation than the first we shall adopt it for all binary operations . |
| 15 | Spiders use it for all kinds of purposes — making egg-sacs , lining nests , weaving tents for their babies and as safety lines when they jump . |
| 16 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 17 | the pool with blood , staining it for all time , |
| 18 | She 's milking it for all it 's worth . |
| 19 | However , suppose we have proved it for all finite P , Q , R. ( We will shortly do this . ) |
| 20 | The ghosts who do want to go haunting , do it for all sorts of different reasons . |
| 21 | I could hardly hear it for all of the babies crying … six … seven … eight … nine … ten … eleven … twelve . |
| 22 | Lord Hulton was a devotee of May and Baker 's Propamidine Cream and used it for all minor cuts and grazes in his cattle . |
| 23 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
| 24 | I 've had it for all this time , I hope . |
| 25 | It is so good that we now use it for all our drawing and image manipulation for the artwork you see in this section of the magazine . |
| 26 | One prostitute said : ‘ I do n't like what I do , I hate what I do , but there is no beating it for all the money you can get . |
| 27 | So how do you set about decorating it for all its possible different uses ? |
| 28 | ‘ What , and spoil it for all readers with weak chins ? ’ |
| 29 | I do it for all of the community . |
| 30 | And they probably have cameras on it for all I know . |