Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [v-ing] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I hate cleaning all this up , but he means well . |
| 2 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 3 | But I like trying all these things now and again . |
| 4 | When I finished typing all the names |
| 5 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 6 | ‘ By ‘ exercising de facto administrative control ’ or ‘ exercising effective administrative control , ’ I understand exercising all the functions of a sovereign government , in maintaining law and order , instituting and maintaining courts of justice , adopting or imposing laws regulating the relations of the inhabitants of the territory to one another and to the government . |
| 7 | Bush had been inaugurated while I was in Australia , and when I came home , I started getting all the bizarre ideas that maybe I 'd had enough of tennis . |
| 8 | Then I started putting all my spare time in my arm … |
| 9 | And do n't suggest I try reversing all the way , since I have no intention of landing in a ditch and immobilising both vehicles . ’ |
| 10 | I kept saying all those things about Tony because I was desperate to stop you realising how I felt . ’ |
| 11 | I kept doing all the things I 'd been taught . |
| 12 | If I start listing all the factors which I would like my friend to have , I would be here until next year ! |
| 13 | Whereas if I start doing all the crazy embellishments instead , everyone is going to have to react . |
| 14 | You should be aware of this period and I recommend reading all four plays and also The Theatre of George Devine by Irving Wardle . |
| 15 | Fourth , Sa nyāsa , the ascetic stage , which involves abandoning all attachment to worldly things . |
| 16 | At that time we were also building a similar data base on another CAD system , which involved re-writing all software to suit . |
| 17 | A task which involved organising all the Sunday services , Sunday school and several weeknight activities . |
| 18 | In order to gain admittance and nurse his wounds , Bothwell had to strike a deal which involved letting all the Elliots go free . |
| 19 | She was also advised that she should continue to try to reduce weight and should not return to her work ( which involved standing all the time ) until she had been seen in the Outpatient Clinic in six weeks time . |
| 20 | This is a modification of depth first search which avoids finding all children of N straight away . |
| 21 | But your phone and Ian 's yesterday and oh somebody elses ringing all morning long . |
| 22 | Re-covering , is the major part of an upholsterers work which means removing all the old covering and replacing it with new , this can be hand stitched or ‘ capped-on ’ according to the style . |
| 23 | But , dating back to Biko 's days , the BCM has a strong tradition of ‘ non-collaboration , ’ which means shunning all contact with ‘ collaborators ’ serving in government-established institutions . |
| 24 | At the beginning I was simply a labourer , which entailed doing all the preparation on the ground and ensuring that Eric on the roof was always supplied with materials to work with . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't know why you bother doing all this by hand . |
| 26 | Alison , just see , that if you stop worrying all will be well . ’ |
| 27 | If you rate the difficulty or effort needed to achieve those objectives , it will help you to avoid choosing all the most difficult ones in the first week . |
| 28 | Do you remember making all the usual excuses about being overweight ? |
| 29 | Pam 's doing alright , she keeps getting all |
| 30 | fleeing er Claire because she keeps scratching all the time . |