Example sentences of "all [verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young student who died in Edinburgh ; James Bulger ; the girl raped in Gwent — all bring out a natural sympathy as well as a sense of our own fragility and powerlessness . |
| 2 | Docks , farms , animals , people , towns and villages all make up a complete railway system . |
| 3 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 4 | In the pub were twenty or so other walkers , similarly soaked , all crowding round a massive wood stove . |
| 5 | We all owe Solly a deep debt of gratitude for his services to the cause of jazz for so many years . |
| 6 | US President George Bush , concerned above all to hold together an anti-Iraq coalition in the Gulf which included key Arab allies , had quite openly distanced himself from Israel in recent months . |
| 7 | Although standards for cycle track construction were set as part of the 1975 Act , it was felt necessary to provide some demonstration projects to give local authorities guidelines on costs , approaches to particular problems , and above all to demonstrate how an entire cycle route might be created . |
| 8 | Finally they reached their destination , to find a huge crowd of silent onlookers all standing back a respectful distance and watching in mesmerised fascination as a distraught woman sobbed and screamed for help . |
| 9 | Incidentally it did not escape our notice that Colin , his wife and John Stowell all gave up a significant part of a day for our benefit . |
| 10 | We all sat round an enormous dining-room table for supper , which , as it was Boxing Day , was always cold turkey with all the trimmings , sausages , pork pie , beetroot and celery . |