Example sentences of "all [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Clearly much would depend on whether Knott could stay with Greig but , after nightwatchman Underwood went , Knott and Snow both followed quickly , all dismissed by Daniel inside four overs .
2 The metric in this region may be taken to be of the form ( 6.20 ) , but with the metric functions U , V , W and M all depending on u only .
3 I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ?
4 ‘ Parents have to rely on references to gauge their backgrounds , and we 've all heard of cases when references are forged .
5 You 've all heard of golf widows .
6 ‘ You 've all heard of Industry Year , I suppose .
7 We have all heard of examples of the deepest psychological states being cured with a 6c potency and at the other extreme a 50M being needed for a sprained ankle .
8 We have all heard of John Ruskin , only a minor artist , but a self-appointed and probably most influential overseer of Victorian aesthetics .
9 Actor Bill Roache , alias Ken Barlow , added : ‘ The cast is all filled with admiration for the way they sustain the standards of our scripts . ’
10 Stretch imagination to its utmost limits and you can conceive no exhibition more grand and imposing than Roshanara Begum , mounted on a stupendous Pegu elephant and seated in a large latticed howdah covered with a silken tent , blazing with gold and azure , followed by other elephants with howdahs nearly as resplendent as her own , all filled with ladies attached to her household …
11 The Wales LFAs ( all designated under Article 3(4) ) according to MAFF , are all suitable for extensive livestock production but not for crops , apart from those necessary to feed livestock maintained on the land .
12 It does n't all disappear over night .
13 Plover Hide is one of thirteen hides , all situated at sites regarded as particularly rewarding from a bird watcher 's point-of-view .
14 The music was played by two musicians , Rolande and Ydrys , sitting cross-legged under the cart with a hurdy-gurdy , a reed-pipe , a drum and a shawm , all hidden from sight by a straw bale .
15 We had all gathered for Hamish and Tone 's traditional Ne'erday partyette ; a necessarily quietish affair during which people exchanged tales of drunkenness , broken resolutions and recipes for hangover cures , as well as taking advantage of the opportunity to compare notes regarding blank spots in the memories of any of the assembled penitents .
16 The Firm have all gathered in John 's living room .
17 … to see Mr. Wats , keeper of the Apothecaries Garden of simples at Chelsey ; where there is a collection of innumerable rarities of that sort : Particularly , besids many rare annuals the Tree bearing the Jesuits bark , which had don such cures in quartans : & what was very ingenious the subterranean heate , conveyed by a stove under the Conserveatory , which was all Vaulted with brick ; so as he leaves the doores & windowes open in the hard(e)st frosts , secluding onely the snow , & c .
18 Alfie , Ted Halsall , Bobby ( Jacky ) Lee and myself all lived in Suffolk Road , within a wedge of each other .
19 There were various elongated portraits , all painted on canvases of an idiosyncratic size , roughly six foot by two .
20 Supposing that chefs and scullery lads are still alive , have n't fled , or are n't all pressed into service to boil up synthdiet for all those refugees .
21 We then all got into taxis and we went off to the Coconut Grove at the top half of Regent Street where we spent until the small hours of the morning .
22 And then they would all stay for tea or whatever .
23 Two letter of thanks were then read — the first from Edith Harlow thanking all the teachers for the lovely handbag , matching gloves and cheque which were presented to her at the Essex Rally together with a jewel box , cheque , flowers and an iced cake all given by Essex teachers and class members .
24 The increased use of antiseptic techniques , the isolation of bacteria and recognition of their role in disseminating disease , and the gradual spread of improved nursing under the inspiration of Florence Nightingale , all led to improvements first in voluntary then in Poor Law hospitals .
25 The rise in the price of oil had little immediate impact , but the collapse of world stock markets , the fall in demand , especially in the USA , for Hong Kong exports and the fear that Japanese banks would cut back on investment all led to growth predictions being revised downwards , in some instance to negative growth .
26 The title of Nigel Osborne 's serenade , Albanian Nights , while moist obviously referring to the disguises assumed by Ferrando and Guglielmo while testing their fiancées ' fidelity in Così fan tutte , is also a metaphorical allusion to our own relationship to the music of the past : ‘ We 've got to recognize that we come into Mozart 's world like characters in disguise : we 've all flown in airplanes , driven fast cars , eaten junk food — things he could n't even have imagined .
27 We 've all flown in aeroplanes , driven fast cars , eaten junk food — things he could n't even have imagined ’ .
28 Models range from World War One to present day aircraft , all flown in RAF and RN service ( including captured types ) .
29 The people in the Tate house were victims of themselves because they had all fallen into sadism and masochism and recorded it on video-tape .
30 Fat Girls like me have all fallen from grace
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