Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [prep] all the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 2 | Months later he was to admit : ‘ Do n't you realize , Jim , I was just egging you on all the time ? |
| 3 | Her hands were in his dark hair , her mouth kissing him with all the love and desire she had suppressed for so long . |
| 4 | At first , it swept the whole side of the mountain , and , charging itself with all the rubbish it found there , made its way into the vale , following chiefly the direction of the Lissa . |
| 5 | Though he had gone through the motions of caring she saw now with the painful wisdom of hindsight that , despite all his assurances of love and respect for her , he had really only been interested in his own pleasure , pursuing it with all the subtlety of a bulldozer . |
| 6 | So wrote Mr Avray Tipping in 1918 , persuading the traveller to take the winding road from Shrivenham ( pronounced ‘ Shrinam ’ by the locals ) and to glimpse down its fine avenue of limes heralding what for all the world could be the Petit Trianon plucked from Versailles and set down here in Berkshire . |
| 7 | She glared accusingly at him , investing him with all the blame for Timothy Gedge 's presence in the garden . |
| 8 | An outside cistern could be kept from freezing by hanging a light bulb near it and leaving it on all the time . |
| 9 | A couple of them had produced flaming torches from nowhere and were brandishing them with all the zeal of a party of drunken Transylvanian peasants storming Castle Frankenstein during an electrical storm . |