Example sentences of "[noun] all [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Led by John Mason they visited , among other places , New York , Washington , Niagara , Chicago , the Mammoth Caves of Kentucky and , rather gruesomely , the recently deserted battlefields of Virginia where they saw ‘ skulls , arms and legs all bleaching in the sun ’ . |
| 2 | It was a long drop from the balcony of the games room ; the castle apothecary carried a line of lethal poisons and draughts ; there were ways out of the castle , a postern or two , and a narrow winding path through the fractured rocks and fallen masonry all tumbled round the castle 's plinthed base like scree , then a long cold walk into the snowy silence … |
| 3 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 4 | Increasing volumes of boat traffic along the river , pollution , industrial activities along the river bank , siltation , and incidental mortalities from fishing all contribute to the baiji 's decline . |
| 5 | But now a new pattern emerged as the red and brown shapes blocked together to form overlapping triangles all pointing across the room at the double doors opposite . |
| 6 | So far as tomorrow 's game at Celtic Park is concerned , Rangers ' Goram , Gough and Steven all came through the midweek Champions League match without further mishap , and will play . |
| 7 | As a manager , initially player-manager , at Swansea , he leant heavily on former Liverpool club-mates : Tommy Smith , Ian Callaghan , Ray Kennedy , Phil Boersma , Alan Waddle and Colin Irwin all went to the Vetch Field . |
| 8 | Territoriality , dominance , and ritualized fighting all result in the fact , often noticed , that the amount of naked aggression to be seen in nature is less than the maximum possible . |
| 9 | As I helped myself to a drop of Taff 's tea the guns down by the River Orne opened up again , the shells all heading in the direction of the German positions . |
| 10 | Taken as a whole the Turneys formed a not unimportant family of landed peasants and yeomen all living in the neighbourhood of Leighton Buzzard . |
| 11 | Usually it is at the end of a long day 's racing , with a number of stressful periods all adding to the pilot 's fatigue . |
| 12 | Thus titles , chapter headings , sub-divisions and sub-headings all indicate to the reader how the author intends his argument to be chunked . |
| 13 | Press releases , press conferences , radio and television interviews , speeches and articles all contribute to the Council 's profile . |
| 14 | Press releases , press conferences , radio and television interviews , speeches and articles all contribute to the Council 's profile . |
| 15 | Someone had sent him a jacket almost exactly like the ones the famous bomber pilots all wore during the war . |
| 16 | The Smiths , between grabbing valuable demo time from interested companies , found themselves , in the long hot summer of '83 , in the centre of a whirlwind of ideas all blossoming from the seeds of that initial Marr and Morrissey meeting less than one year earlier . |
| 17 | The full might of American marketing know-how has been put behind these shows , with stickers , package tours , bill-boards , radio commercials all pulling in the masses : culture and profit , say the city fathers . |
| 18 | Having been at the end of a queue of Germans and Austrians all champing at the bit to go heliskiing , it was our turn . |
| 19 | The girl gave a worried glance over her shoulder , as if she might find the dinner guests all crowded inside the room with them . |
| 20 | It was such a laugh , so many theatricals all diving into the buffet . |
| 21 | My fathers and grandfathers all worked in the slate , they seen nothing only slate . |
| 22 | Now I idled in the yellow light of closed banks , municipality and bad business all done for the day . |
| 23 | I tuck everything away , his toes , his fingers all swaddled against the wind . |
| 24 | The birth parents , adoptive parents and the child itself are at present all encouraged by the law , the professionals and common prejudice to deny the reality of their situation . |
| 25 | The values of static field strength , gradient switching rates , and resonance frequency values all fall within the NRPB guidelines for clinical MRI . |
| 26 | Why , in 1989 , did we have a £3 billion trade deficit in building products against the background of building firms , building material producers and brickmakers all going to the wall ? |
| 27 | The report shows that heavy metals , oil spills , insecticides , fishing and tourism all contribute to the decline of the sea grass . |
| 28 | The city law firms all clustered within the boundaries of the square mile have dominated the market in legal services . |
| 29 | There is an assumption behind all this that size does matter , which seems to be belied by the fact that IBM 's enormous $60,000m a year bulk has been unable to save the company — but IBM 's problems all arise from the fact that the company 's business is so hopelessly slewed to one sector of the market , with products that fewer and fewer people are going to be happy to own . |
| 30 | ‘ My relatives all live in the States — his are in Jersey . |