Example sentences of "everything [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is true that everything points back to one 's youth : as a teenager Winters began a bottle collection after discovering a drugstore basement full of abandoned glass containers . |
| 2 | There was this scene right at the end where the woman lights a cigarette after she 's left the gas on the cooker on and everything goes up in an explosion ; and then in the very next advert there was a car driving through a field , and the whole field went up in a sheet of flame . |
| 3 | ‘ F-Freud says everything goes back to s-s-s — ’ |
| 4 | Sometimes there 's a moral imperative and you feel everything building up behind you that you have to do it . |
| 5 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 6 | The transit baggage had not been loaded and customs officials and police were insisting on all cases being opened and everything laid out on the floor . |
| 7 | Is everything sorted out for the moment ? |
| 8 | Everything caught up with her then , and everything slammed into its proper place . |
| 9 | She thinks you suspect her and it seems to me that everything adds up to a good cause for her condition . ’ |
| 10 | It was strong and irresistible , sending everything swimming out of focus . |
| 11 | Since everything seemed out of my reach I was reduced to making friends with the pigeons who were everywhere , and whose gentle murmurings I 'd grown accustomed to hearing . |
| 12 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 13 | They just had one of those days when everything came off for them . |
| 14 | Said everything came down to sex , did n't he ? ’ |
| 15 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 16 | Then everything came back in a wave of anguish and she ducked her head under the water and made herself hold her eyes open until they smarted with pain . |
| 17 | With everything going on about the Poll tax , it 's extremely easy for us to understand how they felt . |
| 18 | Meyer had his head buried in files he was comparing , apparently oblivious to everything going on around him . |
| 19 | The fox is him and the forest is like his life and everything going on around him . |
| 20 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 21 | I could leave everything lying about on the floor and nothing would get broken ! |
| 22 | Suddenly the flood-gates opened and Topaz let everything spill out from the day when she took Andrew 's horse to the moment when Amsterdam asked her to marry him . |
| 23 | It may well fall off , but if it does fall off and everything gets back to normal it 'll grow back again . |
| 24 | WORTH IT for the ‘ Relapsed Remix ’ alone , and proving that not everything coming out of Deutschland these days leans towards the industrial . |
| 25 | ‘ We designed the all-weather track for Lingfield before we sold it , so they had everything set up for them . |
| 26 | ‘ So , ’ Alyssia joined in , ‘ we thought we 'd drop by and let you know that everything worked out in the end . |
| 27 | The traveller was then grilled by the corrupt Indian border officials : ‘ Their custom was to take a quarter of everything brought in by the merchants and to exact a duty of seven dinars for every horse . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , that 's exactly what you 'd get if there 'd been a big explosion with everything starting out from the same place . |
| 29 | ‘ Everything sorted out with Mr Templeman ? ’ |
| 30 | There was n't much to see with the fog , only grey stone walls as they carried on , eventually reaching the Inner Ward , everything cut off around them . |