Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmentalists also fear that the National Institute of Forestry and Natural Resources ( INFEAN ) is controlled by those who favour opening up all of Ecuador 's national parks to organised mining . |
| 2 | Tom had to go racing round all morning rounding them up again . |
| 3 | I do n't Clare does n't really like going round all the creatures do you ? |
| 4 | No , I 'd better not be told , because I should only begin counting up all the things I 'd missed , and you 're better off not knowing what you 've missed . ’ |
| 5 | Also , at the end of it all you will have to eat like a bird in order to avoid putting back all the fat you lost . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
| 7 | The next morning , the plan was ready to roll ; Tiphook began snapping up all the TIP stock in sight . |
| 8 | That middle drawer over there keeps coming out all the time . |
| 9 | Bougainville Copper Ltd ( BCL ) , the owners of the huge opencast Panguna copper mine on Bougainville island , began laying off all but 300 of the mine 's 2,300 workforce on Jan. 7 . |
| 10 | But I think it 's too bad that it keeps cropping up all the time . |
| 11 | In a fit of madness I started tearing up all the ad records . ’ |
| 12 | And when he started going out all the time , she started going out occasionally . |
| 13 | She hovered , not knowing what to do , afraid to start crying here all by herself . |
| 14 | He has to keep coming back all the time to look after my needs when … when he 'd much rather be out having his needs looked after . |
| 15 | Continue rolling out all the rounds , covering them with a damp cloth . |
| 16 | But it was n't until Koussevitzky offered a commission of a thousand dollars from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation that Ben was seriously able to contemplate setting aside all the time that is required to write a full-scale opera . |
| 17 | ’ We had a wonderful time , ’ recalls Sutherland , whose part essentially involved living out all his Roy Rogers boyhood fantasies ( ie , dressing up as a cowboy ) with the likes of Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez . |
| 18 | But the prop kept going round all the while , and opening up afterwards produced no problems . |
| 19 | He says that he replaced the batteries , but the alarm kept going off all the time . |
| 20 | Yeah it kept going there all the time . |
| 21 | Australian Schuback said he was happy with his own performance , but his opponent kept pulling out all the stops . |
| 22 | At one-hour weekly meetings , the team started the process by looking for the symptoms of the problem , which meant pulling together all the relevant facts . |
| 23 | He would not even contemplate wiping out all his hard work with such a hare-brained scheme as a supertax . ’ |
| 24 | Try cutting out all these drug-like items , plus cow 's milk , for two weeks and see if the baby improves . |
| 25 | ‘ When I took up music , it meant giving up all thought of a family . |
| 26 | Eating well does not mean giving up all the things you like . |
| 27 | And his name kept coming up all the time did n't it , Harvey Jones ? |
| 28 | I heard him working away up here alone , and he kept coming down all eager and excited and asking me to come and look , and I would n't … of all the ridiculous , petty … |
| 29 | It must have been bought by the bolt , for it kept showing up all year in pantaloons and children 's dresses , or on servants . |
| 30 | Try hooking up all your effects into the front of your amp and then compare the signal with that of the guitar going straight in , and you 'll see what I mean . |