Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] every [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under pressure from professional and voluntary organisations during the debates on the Bill , the government was forced to tackle the question of whether every child could indeed follow the National Curriculum . |
| 2 | as if every sentence he had ever written had not cried out to the heavens that the man had as much integrity as a rotten tree-trunk . |
| 3 | Then all at once she was swept by a wildness as if every doubt had vanished in a twinkling , and a bubble of pure joy lifted her head and made her lips tilt . |
| 4 | The budget of the Horton generally puts day to day work has got to better reflect the fact that there 's a growing district Hospital , and has got to better reflect the size of the population it serves , and then also about a third of the patients that are treated at the Horton come from Warwickshire , Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire , but actually the Horton is funded as if every patient there comes from Oxfordshire , and that 's clearly crazy , and we 've got to make quite sure that cross-boundary flows of patients are better reflected by cross boundary flows of money . |
| 5 | Tuathal , they can eat , but serve the ale as if every pint of it cost you a toenail . |
| 6 | " Come now — while we can She was shaking , crying as if every teardrop scalded her . |
| 7 | And her hair — that hair — still curling wilfully , as if every strand were an ungovernable sexual impulse . |
| 8 | It was as if every person in the room had been slapped in the face . |
| 9 | It seemed to her as if every hair on her body , every roughness of skin , unevenness of toenail , snagged on the sticky , shiny fibres . |
| 10 | She took the menu , scowled at it as if every dish carried a health warning , chose a couple at random and handed it back . |
| 11 | A good contract is one which brings benefits to both sides and this is the result that should be aimed at in negotiations ; it should be written , however , as if every point were to be used as evidence at a later date . |
| 12 | I loved her , and when she died I felt as if every light in the world had dimmed . ’ |
| 13 | I felt as if every muscle had been ripped out . |
| 14 | In the stillness of the empty church , the words echoed and re-echoed as if every rafter vibrated in sympathy . |
| 15 | And a friend in Scotland swears that he once heard a sermon preached on the wonders of creation in which the minister made much of the sanctity of the earthworm and even speculated on whether every earthworm is an individual . |