Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] all [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major defied the wise saw which says that the British people are happy to pay more tax in order to get better public services , and played the issue of Labour 's higher taxes for all it was worth : it was worth the difference between an overall majority of 21 and a hung Parliament . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've made provision for all I 'm ever going to need ! ’ |
| 3 | Last I have a very pleasant task to perform , namely to ask Angela to kindly present to His Lordship a token of our loving esteem for all he has done for the Guild over the years and hopefully when he wears the vestment he will say a prayer for us all — AD MULTOS ANNOS . |
| 4 | ‘ The youngsters who visited your trailer were full of enthusiasm for all they had seen and done . |
| 5 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
| 6 | After 1985 , the Romanians played up their independence from Moscow for all it was worth . |
| 7 | Well let's not say all nine planets for all we know they 'll discover a new one tomorrow . |
| 8 | I could have wound up in Wiesbaden for all I knew . |
| 9 | I kept my word to Jenkins and backed his proposals for all I was worth as a welcome , if minor , rationalization of the creaking old eighteenth-century ox-wagon of our criminal law . |
| 10 | Yet Nature , on to whom we pitch responsibility for all we can not understand , is n't very good when set to automatic . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's bad luck for all them blokes in the other counties what never ‘ ad Sandham and the rest to ‘ elp ‘ em , ’ commented the Van Boy . |
| 12 | ‘ Why , ’ she said sweetly , rising and picking up her clothes , and her bag , now empty of the articles which she had given J. D. O'Connor , ‘ tonight I am going to turn in early , read and rest — such a change after all I have done since this time last week . |
| 13 | As soon as he started to tear the paper off I had a wild desire to snatch it back , rush out and buy him a record-player ; it seemed such a ludicrously inadequate present after all he 'd done for me . |
| 14 | Bung 'em at the baddies for all you 're worth , but do n't waste 'em — you 've only got a limited supply ! |
| 15 | The ones who really enjoy it play the sporting card for all it 's worth ; the others pray that it will render them a touch more human . |
| 16 | She was screaming and waggling her legs for all she was worth , but the cruel loops of nylon had her about the wrists , the kite was in the jaws of the wind , and she was already well out of reach even if I had wanted to catch her . |
| 17 | Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet . |
| 18 | Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet . |
| 19 | It could be for starving Romanian baby whales with AIDS for all I care . |
| 20 | ‘ I was busy composing a graceful speech of thanks for all you 've done for me . ’ |
| 21 | Thanks for all you 've done . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , they come round and they were all on about it and er , erm and that was it , Darren called us all into the canteen , well I , I mean Pam must have told you that I was , I could n't get over it and he said thanks for all you 've done , all your support and I thought yeah |
| 23 | It was completely anarchic , they could have been fighting for anything , cheaper teabags for all they cared , half of them . |
| 24 | ‘ Just as long as you get up there in one piece and stay put all night you can crawl up on your hands and knees for all I care . ’ |
| 25 | She could n't just leave Steve in the lurch after all they had done to get the business together . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ Julia said , thinking of all she had read and heard about the battle at Monte Cassino . |
| 27 | All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire . |
| 28 | This gives notice to the other side of all they should know . |
| 29 | The pot-bellied tosser told me that the club wished to make a gesture in recognition of all I had done for the ‘ Stiffs ’ during my spell as manager , and after much discussion it was agreed that they could best show their appreciation by raising the price of my season ticket for next year by 25 per cent . |
| 30 | She wants to do bareback ridin' in a circus and show 'er legs like all them circus girls do . |