Example sentences of "all to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The solenoids in the metering room are all to buggery and the dials are flicking to and fro like dildos . ’ |
| 2 | No seriously , you get so much shit at work , if you took it all to heart , you know , you 'd just crack up , and the way I deal with stress like , you know , someone 's made my day . |
| 3 | The disciplined child does not have to use his evaluation faculty on conflict and can devote it all to education . |
| 4 | The volume issued in the early spring of 1923 applied above all to village libraries . |
| 5 | Those upland fields are the hardest land of all to till , not only because of the incline , but also because they 've recently been reclaimed from the forest and the soil is still heavy with roots and stones . |
| 6 | The next day Minton might insist on a walk on Hampstead Heath in the morning but the nub of the weekend came in the afternoon when all sat down to draw , Minton inspiring them all to work and try hard . |
| 7 | It 's enabled us all to work and to conduct our cases in as an amiable atmosphere as the adversarial system allows , and we are grateful for that . |
| 8 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 9 | The outside did n't match the inside and I wanted them all to kind of get together . |
| 10 | Forcing them all to retune their lives to the pitch she set . |
| 11 | Reducing it all to sex . |
| 12 | My favourite cartoon is of a businessman standing in Wall Street selling boxes of matches and around his neck is a placard which says : ‘ I left it all to expert advice . ’ |
| 13 | TURNING IT ALL TO POETRY |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll turn it all to poetry ! ’ |
| 15 | While Poole was urging him to remain true above all to poetry , Coleridge still had no sense of a purely poetic , or even literary , vocation , and for the moment could offer only two vague plans for the future , ‘ the first impracticable — the second not likely to succeed ’ : he could ‘ make a portly Quarto ’ by translating all the works of Schiller , then set up a school at 100 guineas a head , or he could ‘ abjure Politics & carnal literature ’ altogether and become a dissenting parson . |
| 16 | He emerged from the subsequent libel trial against the Daily Star with his reputation intact and £500,000 in damages ( he gave it all to charity ) , but his victory came too late to save his political career . |
| 17 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 18 | Jimmy Boyce put it down nearly all to luck — ‘ with negotiation skills being very important . ’ |
| 19 | It was my impression that slightly casual management may have turned them all to vinegar . |
| 20 | Could he on the other hand have borne to consign them all to Hell for ever , like Alcuin , the deacon of York , in a now notorious letter to the abbot of Lindisfarne , written about AD 797 : ‘ What has Ingeld to do with Christ ? ’ he asked scornfully — Ingeld being a minor character in Beowulf . |
| 21 | ‘ Damn you all to hell , ’ I said slowly . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , damn it all to hell and back ! ’ |
| 23 | But the others evidently had not , or Rufus had not , walking jauntily and with swinging stride across the tarmac , his stethoscope bobbing up and down , letting himself into the main hospital block , Shiva later saw , by a door marked ‘ Private ’ , which he slammed behind him with a fine disregard for the notices exhorting all to silence . |
| 24 | Where there are third parties who need to be involved in resolving a dispute , expert determination will run into the same problems as multi-party disputes when attempts are made to submit them all to arbitration together : see Mustill and Boyd , pp143-4 . |
| 25 | Marxists defend the right of all to practice religion , and the right to criticise religion , which is hardly a fundamentalist standpoint . |
| 26 | And now I have to interrupt the first bit of pleasure I 've been able to take in I do n't know how long and put you all to right . |
| 27 | Plenty of money all to yousen . |
| 28 | When tapes come into me I have a listen to the beginning and end of them all to sort of see what sort of quality they are |
| 29 | There are important languages only spoken in their countries of origin — Japanese , for instance , and Korean ; some Pacific languages unrelated to each other or to any other linguistic group on earth : Ainu , for example , which is not spoken outside Hokkaido Island in Japan and has no relationship at all to Japanese ; and Gilyak , which is used only by a very few people on Sakhalin Island — a place known only as being the birthplace of the actor Yul Brynner , and near where the Korean airliner KE 007 was shot down in 1983 . |
| 30 | but no children and no parents — all to spouse |