Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 2 | ‘ You do think of all the might have beens , ’ Sandra admits . |
| 3 | ‘ I am dead in law ’ — but of the girl he denied that he had ‘ attempted to vitiate her at Nine years old ’ ; for ‘ upon the word of a dying man , both her Eyes did see , and her Hands did act in all that was done ’ . |
| 4 | Erm if we actually look erm and I do n't know if we did introduce to all members Bryony who is my assistant and who works very largely on the programme with me and on the educational and events side , and is acting minute secretary while Judith is on maternity leave . |
| 5 | Now , I know colleagues some would like to stay till Sunday , or maybe even Monday next week , but we 're not in that situation , so I again , I do appeal to all colleagues , all colleagues , you know , to assist in formally seconding , and to thank those that have done it so far . |
| 6 | Goody , however , claims that if the processes of political scepticism do occur at all in non-literate societies , they must always be limited and individual . |
| 7 | ‘ Er , ’ Gurder said , ‘ we did look in all the rooms , did n't we ? ’ |
| 8 | The majority of the training is within the Options Agency , erm , achieve a positive outcome , and I do apologise with all the jargon that will creep in , erm , positive outcomes in terms of these programmes are that they achieve jobs . |
| 9 | Secondly I did write to all the members of the Council about the issue of the British National Corpus and their desire to have a record of English as she is spoke and their is a gentleman from here today , if you would care to stand up to identify yourself please . |
| 10 | And suppose I did get through all they 'd say is it 's nothing to do with them they were n't even in the Company at that time — and how many of them were ? ’ |
| 11 | In other words , a trade off of sorts does exist after all : it is a trade off between the unemployment rate and the rate of change of the actual and expected rates of inflation . |
| 12 | But he 's started looking at me as if to say , ‘ Perhaps she does understand after all . ’ ' |
| 13 | I think relationships , in the end , are involvement with other people and that does lead to all sorts of tensions and conflict . |
| 14 | Unmarried women had even less control , and could not own land at all . |