Example sentences of "all [pers pn] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I swear by all I hold dear the Koran , my wife , child and mother I had nothing to do with this . ’ |
2 | But above all they bring home the fragility of human power to rescue us from despair and the absence of hope . |
3 | Jim was all for going on , for expanding , for advancing rather than retreating , but Cliff was beginning to think that after all he had n't the temperament for it , he could n't stand the anxiety , he did n't enjoy the suspense : all he wanted was security , independence , freedom from worry , being his own man . |
4 | Above all it takes seriously the work done by the pupils on site , and incorporates it into further classwork . |
5 | First of all it brings out the functionalist point that the different " aspects " of social relationship , in the fields of kinship , economy , politics , law , religion etc. , are all versions of the same thing . |