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

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1 And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end .
2 The following morning the room looked as though an expedition had broken out in it , so we fought all the bits back into the sacs , smiled sweetly at the girl on reception and left .
3 That 's what I like about it , all the mountains all over the place , you know ?
4 All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing .
5 All the way up on the train , she 'd been rehearsing what she 'd say to him .
6 The morning it was announced a vast audience arrived for Ramsey 's lecture and cheered him all the way up to the dais .
7 History suggests very strongly that class tells more often than not at this stage of the competition , although it is certainly not unknown for a Second Division side to go all the way up to the royal box and collect the trophy .
8 The solution was to strengthen the spire from within by inserting a single skin of new brickwork all the way up to the top , and bolting the brick and stone together with stainless steel pins that would be invisible from the ground .
9 Driving to Cairn Gorm is a bit of a cheat , since you drive all the way up to the car park at 640 metres , but then a sea-level start in the Cairngorms is a bit tricky unless you do n't mind parking the car in Aberdeen and walking in .
10 It was the last block in the street and the side wall was supported by a network of wooden scaffolding that stretched all the way up to the fifth floor .
11 Place your right hand on your partner 's right shoulder and slide your hand firmly all the way up to the neck .
12 It started about 500 feet above the ground and could have continued all the way up to the stratosphere , for all any one of us , peering hopefully upwards , could tell .
13 In came Flt Lt Marshall , red faced and furious , having taken his plane all the way up to the top of the cloud and all the way down again .
14 The new 1.8 is smooth and refined , all the way up to the 6200rpm limiter .
15 Do you know all the way up to the twelve-times table ? ’
16 Talbot said : ‘ You came all the way up to the bridge , Jimmy , just to spread sweetness and light , your own special brand of Job 's comfort ? ’
17 And they called me , and I crawled out , and there was this huge bear between me and my mother , very tall , sitting up the way they do , as tall as … all the way up to the light fitting .
18 ‘ That mad flood of a torrent runs beside the road all the way up to the top of the cordillera . ’
19 If however , there was no open way remaining , then the rising main must have been brought all the way up to the top of the shaft .
20 No point in taking trouble with him ; no point in explaining that he 'd walked all the way up to the blooming rectory to set his mind at rest .
21 In a diagram : Verbs such as try evoke a movement towards the beginning of the infinitive event but do not reach it , whereas verbs like manage take one all the way up to the point of actual realization .
22 Charlie felt indifferent as each of the decorated men was announced and his citation read out until he heard the name of Lieutenant Arthur Harvey who , the colonel told them , had led a charge of Number Eleven Platoon all the way up to the German trenches , thus allowing those behind him to carry on and break through the enemy 's defences .
23 all the way up to the mountains , you could walk so far you could nearly cross over and go to another village right up the mountains , just keep walking and walking for ever , or you could go into the
24 It goes from 0–62 in 8.4 seconds , all the way up through the rev band to a top speed of 129 mph , although no en route to Tooting .
25 The two women giggled all the way upstairs to the bedroom .
26 I did two tours all the way round to the Gulf and right round to Aden which was very pleasant .
27 A signpost lettered APPLEWICK pointed down it , and the school-house where the Brownies were to spend their Pack holiday was at Applewick ; but the van ought to have gone all the way round by the main road , because it was , as Brenda knew , too big to go under the low bridge .
28 The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility .
29 I said to him watch this now she 'll sit all the way right to the end behind him .
30 I have played all the way through to the First Division , where we lasted only one season before relegation .
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