Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Robert Forbes pulled out before his partners were indicted , a manoeuvre which cost him all the accumulated wealth of Lorna Lewis 's golden days . |
| 32 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 33 | People were trying to pinch it all the time . |
| 34 | Whence has it all the materials of … knowledge ? ’ |
| 35 | If you do it properly first time around you 'll know it all the time . |
| 36 | ‘ You ca n't keep challenging it all the time because otherwise they just stop listening to you . |
| 37 | no , and he was n't er he said see they say it all the time I said well of course they do , it 's the phraseology you 're using |
| 38 | Robyn raised the glass to her lips and took a first sip ; she had a feeling that counting to ten was not going to work , but she tried it all the same . |
| 39 | You know , fence it all the way around . |
| 40 | So you want it all the way round |
| 41 | I want to know what all the fuss is about . |
| 42 | Want to know what all the umpires and referees are receiving as gifts from the USTA at this year 's US Open ? |
| 43 | At this , the sorely-tried husband had broken into such cries of frustration and wrath that the good doctor had thrust aside his plate and gone out into the hall to discover what all the hullabaloo was about . |
| 44 | And if you happen to be too young to remember rock'n'roll the first time around , this is the perfect way to discover what all the fuss was about ! |
| 45 | ‘ I do n't know what all the fuss is about , ’ Clive Berlin , QPR 's managing director , said . |
| 46 | ‘ I just do n't know what all the fuss is about . |
| 47 | But Aqib countered : ‘ We did not know what all the fuss was about . |
| 48 | We did n't even know what all the fuss was about and actually thought the lifeboat was a drifting wreck . |
| 49 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 50 | She 'd had a 24-hour labour but often said she did n't know what all the fuss was about these days . |
| 51 | Gerald Thomas allowed himself to add : ‘ I do n't know what all the fuss is about . ’ |
| 52 | Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I do n't know what all the fuss is about . |
| 53 | Sir Stanley Matthews , who was the first footballer to be knighted says he still does n't know what all the fuss is about . |
| 54 | Luckily I did not know what half the appliances were … ‘ |
| 55 | Few there be , are there few that be saved , well what does the bible say about this , first of all it teaches abundantly clearly that all may be saved , God is not partial , God has no favourites , he does n't love you more than he loves any body else , he does n't love me more than he loves you or you more than me , he does n't love you more than he loves ah any other racial group or any other ethnic group , he loves us all the same God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus Christ , here in his love , not that we love God says the apostle but that he loved us , the old testament profit reminds us that he has loved us with an ever lasting love , who , this was one of the hang ups that the Jewish nation had , they thought that they were the cats whiskers , he chose them , but he in fact did n't love them any more than he loved the , the hitites , the parasites , the gergasites and all the other ites , he loved them all the same , God is not partial in his love because he is love , if there was any body that God did not love he would actually cease to be God because love is not something that , that God does , you and I do it no matter how loving you are , or how loving you think you are , you are not love , you choose to love somebody and you love them , there are times when that love goes very thin sometimes , perhaps because of events that have happened , it can actually come to an end where that love dies , you withdraw your love God ca n't do that , God loves us as we 've said with an eternal love , a love that will go on throughout the endless ages of eternity |
| 56 | What they 're doing is actually going a lot further , and supply us all the their ac accounts and details , and they 've actually sort of called it a grant for partial costs of materials , right , so we 're actually |
| 57 | ‘ Look lady , I 've given ya all the rope I could and I guess you jus ' plumb hung yourself . |
| 58 | Apparently one of the the little erm boys she say , he wets himself all the time , and she turns round and she goes , he goes to er , ha ha , he started himself , and you have to change all his clothes , like that and she said |
| 59 | So we sort of switched all around now , so she eats with us at half past six stroke seven , goes up for a bath at seven thirty , eight o'clock and she 's in bed by nine , then she , she 's usually asleep by half past ten , but eh , it seems to have cured the problem we had with her , wanting , wanting me all the time , after she 's gone to bed . |
| 60 | I told them all the positive things , of the love I had seen , of Nancy , of Tom , Dick and Harry and of my various forms of visualization . |