Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [vb infin] [pron] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had my choice , I 'd rather be left to work something out myself ; instead of it all being set up and you just walk in and take measurements , go away and analyse them , you 'd have to go in and set it all up , then you 'd really learn something . |
| 2 | ‘ And now you ring her up on the day we get back from our honeymoon and get her to come down and tell you all about it ! |
| 3 | And it w not like today the supermarket , every corner shop had it 's own particular news of the world you know and my mother-in-law used to go down and she used to come up and tell me all these things about the things that were going on . |
| 4 | The sea roared like a pride of hungry lions , thudding against the side of the ship like a thousand battering-rams , so that it seemed that at any moment it must break through and drown them all . |
| 5 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 6 | She could n't go back and face them all — not now , not when Marianne would have told them all about her criminal father , doubtless revelling in every sad little detail , probably creating a few more just to spice the story up still more . |
| 7 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |
| 8 | Sat along the front of the stage , bored looking girls ca n't even be bothered to turn around and see what all the commotion is about . |
| 9 | I wanted to sit there and ask him all about it , but he finished questioning me and told me to leave . |
| 10 | The unprecedented blitz of media hype surrounding the restoration , expansion and long awaited re-opening of Frank Lloyd Wright 's great spiralling concrete shell has created a huge public interest and lining up to get in and see what all the fuss is about has become the latest hot civic pursuit . |
| 11 | She will come back and give us all the strength we need . ’ |
| 12 | When our band The Joy get to Number One we 'll come back and buy it all . ’ |
| 13 | There were also other things such as places where people were away from home — the Plain Clothes could have as many as twenty or thirty places where people were away from home , and he was expected to pay attention and he would have to go round and visit them all . |
| 14 | We 've done everything we had to do , really , and we can just sit back and watch it all now . ’ |
| 15 | I know people in this sort of line of business who will sit here and tell you all sorts of |
| 16 | None of those and the chancellor of the exchequer is rubbing his hands and saying Goody goody th there 's money for my coffers cos he is the one who is going to step in and take it all , so the people will argue the obvious ones are , firstly somebody you live with but are not married to . |
| 17 | She might well turn around and kill us all . ’ |