Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] everything [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unitary , all embracing , concept of man which is postulated by such expressions as " Anthropology is the science of man " is really a by-product of the post-Cartesian attempt to objectify everything in the world , to view human relationships as commodities , to see everything as quantifiable and predictable and governed by simple laws of cause and effect . |
| 2 | His secrecy about his unhappiness made everything about daily life seem a little counterfeit , apart from meals with Sam and sprees with him at the pictures . |
| 3 | Deep Sea fishing offers everything from conger eel to codling , even the occasional shark . |
| 4 | The modern-day locator has everything in its favour — provided only that it is fitted with a functioning battery . |
| 5 | After Home Alone 2 's record-breaking success in the US , British merchandisers have let their imaginations run riot to devise everything from computer games to yo-yos bearing either Macauley 's face or the film 's title . |
| 6 | The clarity of light throws everything into sharp relief against a backdrop of clear blue sky . |
| 7 | There was little to show that we were on an island , for the snow covered everything from horizon to horizon . |
| 8 | Dean and chapter did everything in their power to get Ramsey . |
| 9 | The waterside cafe serves everything from a pot of tea to a full range of appetising snacks and meals . |
| 10 | Legend has it that the lake was formed by the tears of a love torn nymph , and at the end of a luminous day , when the sun turns everything to delicate hues , even the sceptical are ready to admit they have seen the Trasimeno nymph — adding to the water level with a few tears more . |
| 11 | SEE that your child has everything for ski school : lift pass , ski school tickets , boots , skis , poles and money for a hot drink . |
| 12 | The Vevay Beauty range covers everything from the latest cosmetics to skin and hair care — every product thoroughly clinically tested and selected for you individually to suit your colouring and skin type . |
| 13 | Among humans , social bonding includes everything from nodding , winking and shaking hands , to having a good cuddle . |
| 14 | There is a rebuttable presumption that the highway includes everything between the fence or boundary wall etc. , e.g. grass verges , footpaths and central reservations . |
| 15 | Amid Victorian elegance enjoy everything from tasty bar snacks and meals to superb à la carte dinners . |
| 16 | A graded step approach to teaching the child to eat everything on the plate is carried out by presenting the child with very small helpings initially . |
| 17 | It was his strength that he was never to lose that capacity to measure everything against his past — however much others might sneer at it . |
| 18 | At the same time , before and beyond nature in infinity , he was creator carrying everything within himself in his thought and bringing it into being by his spoken word . |
| 19 | The former is published quarterly in the United Kingdom by the Library Association and its coverage includes not only most of the main social science journals but also serious weekly magazines , such as The Economist and New Society , and also The Times , the Guardian and other such popular publications ; the latter is an American publication covering everything from books to articles and reports on all sorts of economic and social affairs published worldwide in the English language . |
| 20 | Our handsome first edition covers everything from suits to casual wear . |
| 21 | The kit contains everything from antiseptic cream and scissors to a thermometer . |
| 22 | ‘ I consider it part of my job to know everything about everybody , ’ Mandy muttered abstractedly . |
| 23 | One therefore hopes that an understanding of how black holes create particles will lead to a similar understanding of how the big bang created everything in the universe . |
| 24 | With older children it could be that each child makes his/her own list on a piece of paper ; with younger children maybe we do it as a class , and the teacher writes everything on the blackboard ; or perhaps nothing is written down by individuals , with each giving what they will need to the teacher who 's a " quartermaster " . |
| 25 | It was my problem , not my husband 's , but he had the patience and the imagination to try everything in the book ! |
| 26 | A dull rumbling shook everything around them very gently but very firmly . |
| 27 | The second , call it " soft " conventionalism , insists that the law of a community includes everything within the implicit extension of these conventions . |
| 28 | Courtship is marked by a compulsive desire to share everything about yourself with the person you love , and marriage usually begins the same way . |
| 29 | The ‘ Darwinian revolution ’ is seen as a watershed dividing the era of description and classification from the modern desire to explain everything as the product of natural processes . |
| 30 | Whilst we believe in our biologically-determined nature , there will be no possible utopia apart from these two : a matriarchy run by morally superior women , where desire is excluded , and where our innate niceness means that we can all live happily ever after ; or , we let the chaos out , and we rule fiercely and savagely for a short-lived reign , our ferocious and insatiable desire destroying everything around us . |