Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] all [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal . |
2 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
3 | The manner in which the dolphin receives the returning echoes is also a mystery , but they are thought to be picked up by all parts of the body , to travel through the bones to the head . |
4 | The producer/singer 's record company has been forced to come up with all kinds of excuses . |
5 | It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them . |
6 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
7 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
8 | Both these men became good friends of mine and I frequently visited their homes to deliver large sacks of fan-mail which came in from all parts of the country and the northern U.S.A. |
9 | He gets all over the pitch , and I could see him fitting in in all kinds of areas , he used to be good for Spurs even when the defence came under pressure , and he 'd tackle back , becoming the ball winner . |
10 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
11 | And she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the the new Wandsbergh development . |
12 | So then I saw Mrs Irwin on Tuesday when I was in and she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the new development . |
13 | But the greater proportion of goods traffic was not carried in specials but in ordinary merchandise trains , made up of all kinds of vehicles containing an assortment of commodities , raw and manufactured . |
14 | The part-time element of a battalion is made up from all sections of the community : farmers , solicitors , factory workers , office managers , garage mechanics and the unemployed , to name but a few , alI united by the common desire to see their country rid of terrorism . |
15 | in the second half so we can expect to see Collimore racing on to all sorts of long balls now . |
16 | From the fact that it leads on to all sorts of other questions , we can reasonably infer that many of the justifications given in the literature are indeed question-begging . |
17 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
18 | J. D. Hooker collected plants on expeditions to the southern polar regions and to the Himalayas , and soon plants ( in Wardian cases ) were flooding in from all parts of the world . |
19 | On a clear day there are magnificent views from all along this road as well as from the summit , and you can look down on all sides of the island , even to Porto Santo . |
20 | Well , I say that , but of course me and my sore back got up to all kinds of stuff . |
21 | But try sitting on them and they will end up flattened with four feet splayed out to all points of the compass . |
22 | Another sign of the past was carefully concealed from passing strangers , but Yakovlev 's interest was aroused by the frequent sight of windowless huts with smoke pouring out from all sides of their thatched roofs . |
23 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
24 | That 's right , we used to go to Road Methodist and erm we got up to all sorts of capers there you know . |
25 | RED nosed Royal Bank staff got up to all sorts of antics to raise cash for Comic Relief '93 . |
26 | with all ty I get on with all types of people , that 's why I think I like you know er I like people . |
27 | The calanoid copepod Pseudoboekella poppei is a planktonic browser , fed on in all stages of its development by the larger copepod Parabroteas sarsi . |
28 | Guides get up to all sorts of exciting things . |
29 | Of course , these things can happen really , er especially if er , one of two of the guests , I 'm not suggesting your mother 's guests er over-imbibed , but one or two of the guests do have a few jars over Christmas and they get up to all sorts of things in the house do n't they ? |
30 | Oh , he 's not abandoning his most famous role ; but he 's about to pop up in all sorts of other places — and sporting a groovy new haircut … |