Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | So er I I thought to myself well I du n no , I du n no all these Newton girls have been off to Sri Lanka or or , or Zaire or wherever and you 'd you know , is n't that great ? |
| 2 | ‘ Because he did not deliver all the papers . |
| 3 | This rather uncharitable remark possibly arose out of jealousy as Miller certainly did not give all his attention to the gentry , although , as Kalm said , the aristocracy did seek his advice . |
| 4 | It emphasized the problem of housing and jobs , but beyond looking at forms of area management and pleas for much financial help , the reports did not give all that clear a lead on policy . |
| 5 | The Pactus Legis Salicae in fact did not contain all Salic law . |
| 6 | She did not relish all those dishes which memory served up . |
| 7 | A final reason providing grounds upon which to criticise the programme was that the network of field workers did not cover all of the rural population of Bangladesh . |
| 8 | Such ideals did not match all tastes though . |
| 9 | It was soon realised that antihistamines did not block all the effects of histamine , and in particular its action in promoting the secretion of gastric acid . |
| 10 | However , these antihistamines did not block all the actions of histamine , and , in particular , they did not affect its ability to stimulate the stomach to secrete acid . |
| 11 | The hugging , questing , gelatinous limbs did not block all possible entrance into the multiple hulk . |
| 12 | Chairman Colin Willcocks said : ‘ The thieves probably did not realise all the takings were removed . |
| 13 | This firm did not pass all its legal work to lawyer C , but did pass two cases to the firm during the two-week sampling period . |
| 14 | Furthermore the new Cold War did not end all East-West contacts . |
| 15 | The Acts of 1888 and 1894 did not bring all local services under the control of the new local authorities . |
| 16 | T. Behrens gives the impression that he has more to say about himself than the progress of this mad love — to which he did not stand all that close at the time , brother as he was — has allowed him to come up with . |
| 17 | The prime minister did not achieve all his objectives , and he returned home to find that the new tide of anti-American criticism was still rising . |
| 18 | He did not speak all the way . |
| 19 | Since noble interests were not always uniform , deference to their wishes did not dictate all the Tsar 's major decisions , but it did inform every sphere , including the fiscal , commercial , and , very often , the tariff policy of the State . |
| 20 | Naturally , kings did not treat all churches alike . |
| 21 | This was quite a good bargain for the monks , but it did not silence all their criticisms . |
| 22 | So a rich peasant will be able to keep all of the land he was working himself , all the land he was working by hired labour and land that he hired , er that he rented out as long as the amount he , he rented out did not exceed all of the land that he worked himself or used hired labour . |
| 23 | The truce , after all , did not depend all on one man 's goodwill . |
| 24 | One of the pleasures of Saturday working was that the phone did not ring all the time . |
| 25 | The sheer quantity of matter meant that people did not read all their newspaper . |
| 26 | Yet he did not oppose all toxic waste movement ( after all , the same union represents workers at Rechem itself ) ; he simply did n't like the idea that big industrial nations like Canada could dump their dirty problems on this country and his members . |
| 27 | Eck 's defence was that of ‘ operational necessity ’ , i.e. that if he did not destroy all traces of the sinking , his boat would be in grave danger of itself being sunk by Allied aircraft in the morning , as had happened to his four predecessors . |
| 28 | Of course , Preston did not spend all his time looking out for the holes . |
| 29 | So I did not spend all my time peering upwards , searching the skies for those rumoured golden eagles . |
| 30 | John Lade , later to be MP for Southwark , shortly after the passage of the Abjuration Act of 1702 , said " that his friends , meaning the Jacks , were milksops for kicking at oaths , asserting they should never be able to do anything if they , his friends , did not take all the oaths that could be imposed " . |