Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do n't want to go to all the trouble of making curtains yourself , Rectella has a huge range of ready-made curtains and operates a made-to-measure service through its nationwide stockists . |
| 2 | If a new kitten is brought into the home the old cat may feel slighted by all the attention the newcomer is receiving . |
| 3 | My elder brother , one of the last O-level year , pretends to sneer at my GCSE passes , but I 'm glad we did n't have to go through all the cramming and regurgitation of the old exams . |
| 4 | I 've got it timed so that I arrive just before your French maid number , so I do n't have to sit through all the rest of it . |
| 5 | ‘ She must have forgotten in all the excitement . ’ |
| 6 | She wished more than anything that she could say yes , or at least explain that if it had been left to her she would have come with all the will in the world , but there was her mother . |
| 7 | One of the researchers involved , David Sugden , cautioned however that global warming will make sea-levels expand regardless of any added volume caused by melting ice , and he added that " we would have to look at all the ice sheets in the world , not just two , before we could be sure what the effects would be " . |
| 8 | You 'd have imagined from all the interest on his face that I was trying to sell him my butterfly collection . |
| 9 | " What guilty neglect and vicious treatment " , wrote one clergyman , " could have led to all the depravity of the maritime population ? |
| 10 | Tom would have to turn on all the charm to talk her round but if rumour were true , his success rate was high . |
| 11 | ‘ Presumably they must have to pay for all the preparation leading up to an operation of this sort , and pay the staff who are waiting around . |
| 12 | They might not have existed for all the notice Miss Jarman took . |
| 13 | I wished our teenage children had been with us , they would have revelled in all the water sports , in the bay . |
| 14 | It did not purport to deal with all the subject matter of the field and it was believed that : |
| 15 | Just because you 're looking for win win relationships all the time that does n't mean that you 're gon na get walked over all the time because by being assertive and by this is this is really what I want , what is it that you want and looking , listening to the other person 's point of view as well as making sure your point of view goes across as well somewhere , somewhere in all of that through all this down here , there 's a way of finding something for both people . |
| 16 | He observed that the protesters did not enjoy the rights of common that had been affected , and on this basis he decided to modify the by-laws so that they could continue to apply to all the world except the commoners themselves . |
| 17 | ECSTASY can cause bleeding in all the body 's major organs . |