Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [prep] all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors , but oh dear ! |
| 2 | My father has been buying Margaret a designer wardrobe and escorting her to all the best restaurants and clubs and Suzie has taken up surf-boarding . |
| 3 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 4 | Jason and Rachel Sheffield rush between us , helping with the boat , and there is Jean who has been our main support and encouraged and organized us through all the long months of preparation , fed us , nagged us and even done my washing ! |
| 5 | For a moment Nicholas , too , saw the future as something splendid and bright ; a fertile island , well run and blooming , and owing nothing to all the nations that warred round about it . |
| 6 | At the last meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I was asked to write and thank you for all the hard work you have put in to make the centre of Scorton look so nice . |
| 7 | The same lover had made palm trees out of Edwardian ostrich feathers and tied them to all the newel posts of the four-storey staircase . |
| 8 | Yes I think we , we started doing that originally because er the people from the Epping group said they did that every month did n't they , they , they issued a press release and sent it to all the local papers , that seems to be the way of doing it . |
| 9 | Er they had a lock , made it a good lock and sent it to all the clients and this is what we can supply , and it used to meet the needs of clients and they 'd er they 'd erm buy it and it kept them in business , you see what I mean ? |
| 10 | You know , that in 1825 he bought an island on the Niagara River in America and offered it to all the Jews in the world to make a Jewish state called Ararat . |
| 11 | I 've never even managed to get through a job interview , even if it 's a woman doing the interviewing ; I just have this feeling that she is looking at me and judging me for all the wrong reasons . |
| 12 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 13 | ‘ As the managing director of a large commercial organisation , I employ solicitors to work on all the legal issues arising from the operation of my business and to advise me about all the new developments in legislation and case law . ’ |
| 14 | Another delegate objected that all colonization was ‘ necessarily capitalistic and thus exploitative ’ , but a French delegate , Rouanet , reproached him : ‘ it is all too easy to blame everything on capitalism and to saddle it with all the crimes of colonization . |
| 15 | An outside cistern could be kept from freezing by hanging a light bulb near it and leaving it on all the time . |
| 16 | So if you want to organize a group meeting and include it on all the individual schedules , you ca n't . |
| 17 | And often we are the people who embroider it and overbear it with all the complications ent that that are that are part of it . |
| 18 | Basically , they wanted to write a press release about me and distribute it to all the local newspapers , Radio Cornwall , Television South West and the BBC regional news programme , Spotlight . |
| 19 | He plucked out his dagger and hurled himself with all the weight and skill he had upon his enemy . |