Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] all [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It never stopped raining all that day so he wo n't mind the ground , ’ said Ian Balding . |
| 2 | ‘ But there must be a point … when you 've hosed off all the muck and the glaze and the bits of overpainting and your musks of Araby have done their work and you get to the point when you know that what you see before you is what the chap would have seen before him when he stopped painting all those centuries ago . |
| 3 | And Derek was sat waiting all that time , but they must have panicked then so they erm we 'll have to wait and see . |
| 4 | And I had enjoyed buying all those nice new clothes ! |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know why you bother doing all this by hand . |
| 6 | We propose combining all completed forms , probably as simple photocopies , into a single document for distribution to all those interested . |
| 7 | The row came to a head last month when EC Commissioner Bruce Millan said he would consider blocking all European regional aid to the UK unless Whitehall changed its stance . |
| 8 | were thwarted by the Central ‘ B ’ squad who forced a draw , with John Rose winning all three and Ali Matten two . |
| 9 | ( Parenthetically , let me admit that it is n't easy to resist cracking all those nut jokes . |
| 10 | on armaments and erm , I , would n't it be prudent to insure that erm they stop spending all this money on armaments before any aid is given to them ? |
| 11 | Of course I hate cleaning all this up , but he means well . |
| 12 | But she ignored it , the desire to escape overriding all other emotions . |
| 13 | Take advantage of this knowledge and enjoy trying all that is offered to you in your delicatessen — it really is an endless delight . |
| 14 | A recognition of these instinctive processes and relations does not of course entail envisaging all social behaviour as an unmediated result of underlying primordial processes . |
| 15 | ‘ Mind you , it ca n't have helped working all this time for Ricky France-Lynch . |
| 16 | Get scribbling all that heartache now ! |
| 17 | He keeps buying all these things . |
| 18 | I wish they 'd stop asking all these questions — I 'm getting a bit confused . |
| 19 | But I like trying all these things now and again . |
| 20 | I told them if we did n't get more light and heat up here soon I 'd tear a few more of them apart , but after that they only started acting all stupid , and anyway they 'll soon forget ; they always do . " |
| 21 | ‘ So he started pouring all this stuff out about how The Jam were finished . |
| 22 | The West Germans favoured withdrawing all nuclear artillery and ground-based missiles from German soil , while the UK urged only a partial reduction . |
| 23 | People complain about City prices and Leicester University class lists , but if we started printing all these digits even our most faithful readers would complain . |
| 24 | So wha who and he started getting all those carry on like that all one at a time they walk out . |
| 25 | So I think when they started getting all this |
| 26 | Well I used to share a , share this flat with my mate and erm you know , she got a bit out of hand , she kept bringing all these people home and she kept having these parties and it was really difficult for me to study cos I used to go well I still try to go to college , but erm you know , it was really hard for me to study and made my life really , really difficult ! |
| 27 | I kept saying all those things about Tony because I was desperate to stop you realising how I felt . ’ |
| 28 | I just ca n't buy it , I 'm sorry but if the author is going to put elements , a political element into it , he must be steering the audience towards something , because why bother putting all these points up , because everybody realises , what the cold war is |
| 29 | And you kept trying all those complicated ways of pleasing me , but all I wanted was for you just to want me . ’ |
| 30 | Pre-dating the National Health Service by over thirty years , in 1916 the Venereal Disease Regulations were passed instructing all local health authorities to provide clinics for the diagnosis and treatment of the venereal diseases . |