Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] all the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There the city 's builders laid out all the streets , the ceremonial centres and most of the other buildings along a precise rectangular grid aligned with the main ceremonial road known as the Avenue of the Dead , which archaeologists have discovered , was oriented 15–5o east of north .
2 Progressive rock was OVER-CONCEPTUAL made risible attempts to sum up all the riddles of existence on a single ( or triple ) LP , extended these pompous didactic ambitions on to the stage with all manner of theatrical set pieces .
3 bloody cars parked there all the time , early in the morning they 're parked there .
4 Darling , you 're in my blood , and there are n't any words to express properly all the wonder of you .
5 He had spent the past few months noting down all the sightings and rumours of the Bookman 's movements .
6 Raybestos ' trade union supporters pulled out all the stops .
7 I do n't know , I mean , loa , new computers come out all the time .
8 They travel out next week , with their employers picking up all the hotel bills .
9 I prefer to let the game be fun , with little concern for competition , but sometimes children like to see who takes the shortest number of dives to pick up all the treasure .
10 In another area he did actually get a market research firm 's fieldworkers to go round all the houses asking for young men and women in the age group , and while this appeared to give a reasonably accurate sample frame it was also very expensive .
11 The scenery was certainly spectacular , the sierras all around them , mountains climbing higher all the time , civilisation left well behind .
12 Throughout the greater part of these districts the supply of water is intimately mixed , the pipes of both companies going down all the streets and into almost all the courts and alleys .
13 Mum says that it took her hours to look up all the verses .
14 Here at this private works in Newnham , the reed plants filter out all the impurities in the waste .
15 Moreover , for purchases and bills in general , cards tend to work out cheaper than the cash alternative , as the card issuers tot up all the day 's transactions and exchange the total at a favourable exchange rate , usually around 2% to 3% better than the one available to the public .
16 Making equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) operational requires some terminal conditions to solve back all the reservation wages .
17 The sources said almost all the documents which had turned up appeared to have gone missing before the 1988 change .
18 He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge .
19 The problem is that unless you have absolutely plain walls , there will be a number of obstacles to tile round , and you have to decide how to get the best fit round them with your inflexible tile squares , without ending up cutting impossibly thin slivers to fill in all the gaps .
20 BR staff and preservationists pulled out all the stops to have everything right on the day even though they were hampered by high winds and heavy rain .
21 In fact , due to a fault in assembly all the arms came off all the chairs .
22 In the second half of August , the Army of Africa pressed towards Madrid , with the Republican forces falling back all the way .
23 We get sent all over erm the country , southern England I , I was sent to different hospitals to learn about different things , to learn about erm psychiatry and obstetrics and medicine and then erm you also do some er training back in your own hospital , but it 's not big enough for all the doctors to stay there all the time well the baby doctors .
24 As its name implies , it uses the metaphor of a card as the basic information element and enables users to link together all the ingredients of multimedia in a rich and powerful , hypertext-like environment .
25 Feroza ( wiping her eyes ) said : ‘ These tears come out all the time . ’
26 Er but I think you know , you 've got sort of police walking around all the time , erm it can aggravate things rather than calm them .
27 Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases .
28 Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases .
29 KIND-HEARTED fundraisers pulled out all the stops to donate more than £1,500 to a very ill colleague .
30 So if you go up the road to Epping their elections take up all the councillors that are elected together .
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