Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] all " in BNC.

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1 outside people 's houses , and the amount of stuff in there , that just breaks my heart to see it all go into landfill .
2 Everyone was so kind and helpful when Copper had his accident , although they all thought I was mad , and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them all , especially Cooper 's vet .
3 ‘ May I take this opportunity to thank you all for the good work you are doing and assure you of my prayers . ’
4 Now the Paul Turner-directed film is to be screened on the channel again tomorrow week at 7.45pm and this time non-Welsh speakers will have the opportunity to see what all the fuss is about there will be sub-titles .
5 If you decide to go for a low-voltage set-up , work out how many lights you need and where they will be sited , so you can buy enough cable to connect them all up .
6 Bishop continued , ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to inform you all that the judicial process requested by Miles Engado regarding the death of his daughter has now reached a conclusion .
7 Thank you , yes , erm thank you very much for inviting me to attend to those meetings and giving me the opportunity to meet you all .
8 The following Monday we met at Downing Street in an attempt to sort it all out .
9 Shareen , you 're very much part of the er , the attempt to help us all use alcohol a little bit more sensibly , what , what , what is this strategy ?
10 THE dinosaur movie to cap them all .
11 This sequence is probably going to be shot very early in the morning , and it will take great strength of mind to get it all together .
12 The most celebrated attempt to explain it all by numbers was the so-called Phillips curve [ 1958 ] .
13 A glance through any of the larger component catalogues will show that the number of different components currently in use is so large that even if you could afford to buy one or two of everything , you would need a warehouse to store it all .
14 He came , amiable , assured , and planted himself in her doorway to enquire what all the fuss was about .
15 PAUL STEWART is now a 2.3 million midfield player at Liverpool but he is the first to admit it needed a referee 's red card to make it all happen .
16 It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station .
17 But it would take about ten times the age of the Universe to write it all . ’
18 At this , the sorely-tried husband had broken into such cries of frustration and wrath that the good doctor had thrust aside his plate and gone out into the hall to discover what all the hullabaloo was about .
19 The potential of joy is vastly greater than our capacity to absorb it all .
20 The moment we walk out into the sun to play we all break out into a heavy sweat .
21 She giggled with sheer delight to handle them all , so little , so pretty , the cats so catlike , the kangaroos ( with a baby in the mother 's pouch ) so expressive of the basically humorous nature of kangaroos .
22 The technique , which he published , was quite complicated , and he described in his book how he was on the point of making a rotary machine to do it all automatically , when William Nicholson [ q.v. ] sent him his own version , which performed very well .
23 And I do not think that Helen is unusual or unfathomable in translating this into a hatred of her own body , a fear of its femininity , unpredictability and curviness , and a longing to keep it all ‘ under control ’ .
24 He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself .
25 ‘ And I suppose you only had to flash your smile at the women in the village to have them all falling over themselves to tell you more . ’
26 ‘ Why could n't you have waited until your mother was home to ask me all these things ?
27 He 'd be a fool to throw it all away now that SA are back in business .
28 The landlady , an attractive , buxom woman in her mid-forties , had brought them each a hugely piled plate of chilli-con-carne , with a pint of appropriately chilly lager to wash it all down .
29 They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right .
30 They had five sons and eight daughters , and Dresser 's hectic career was driven in part by the need to support them all .
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