Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | ‘ I do n't know why you bother doing all this by hand . |
| 16 | Alison , just see , that if you stop worrying all will be well . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Do you remember making all the usual excuses about being overweight ? |
| 19 | Pam 's doing alright , she keeps getting all |
| 20 | fleeing er Claire because she keeps scratching all the time . |
| 21 | And I have to say that 's a luxury that most recruiters do n't have but whoever walks through this door I I you know providing all the other things jell erm I have the luxury of offering five companies in which er an individual can go into . |
| 22 | Then poor wee Norrie Lamont had to go grovelling to the Germans — the same Norrie you heard saying all Krauts should be put down . |
| 23 | And you kept trying all those complicated ways of pleasing me , but all I wanted was for you just to want me . ’ |
| 24 | Well I used to share a , share this flat with my mate and erm you know , she got a bit out of hand , she kept bringing all these people home and she kept having these parties and it was really difficult for me to study cos I used to go well I still try to go to college , but erm you know , it was really hard for me to study and made my life really , really difficult ! |
| 25 | Then tears would slide down her face into her hair as she lay crying all alone , remembering how horrible it was to be Chesarynth . |
| 26 | It 's a bit of a bummer really but you know when you 've got it on and you 're talking , cos I was telling jokes and you get carried away and you start thinking wah and you start telling all the jokes and everything there 's a , a lot of swearing on this tape , a lot of swearing , a lot of swearing . |
| 27 | It makes you vulnerable because you start seeing all your mistakes and all the bad things that you do and all the things that need improvement . |
| 28 | Yeah , primary I think , roundabout primary four or five , cos that 's when they start talking about it , and that 's where you start getting all the the wrong things told to you in the playground , I mean I know that 's what happened to me . |
| 29 | - Stationers start overflowing with 1990 calendars , bearing pictures of thatched kittens. - After yet another new TV series , you start regretting all the rude things you said about the summer repeats . |
| 30 | When he 's with my dad , last night my dad 's , they were playing a game , she said you should 've heard him , she said laughing all , mum loves to hear him happy . |