Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they espouse causes and strike attitudes , and then after a while when they get old they think what-the-hell , and they start doing what they like and nothing matters at all . |
| 2 | In any other situation the worst thing that can occur is that nothing happens at all . |
| 3 | The data we collected leads inescapably to the conclusion that for most of the time nothing happens at all — this seems to be particularly the case in residential settings ( ibid. , p. 58 ) . |
| 4 | Apart from that , as they say , nothing happens at all . |
| 5 | Nobody benefits from all this . ’ |
| 6 | Blowing right to left across the beach , and slightly on shore , it quickly reaches force 4 or more on about 65% of the afternoons in season , including the odd flat patch when nothing blows at all for six or seven days . |
| 7 | Prediction has been shown to be difficult , if not dangerous , when one thinks of all those worthy , well-written , sincerely felt , and critically-supported books that remain unread ( see Manning , 1969 ; Avery , 1972 ) , and those obvious , apparently superficial and mundane pot-boilers that gain young readers ' affections . |
| 8 | Apart from the bad , there is another category that might be called the gloriously bad or the awfully bad : one thinks of all those collections of groan-producing puns and nonsensical jokes and riddles . |
| 9 | When one thinks of all the PM 's work these last four and a half years and of all he is and stands for , and that this is the response it gets , it makes one lose faith a bit . |
| 10 | But for all its forced and rather infuriating serenity , the letter 's tone was partially warranted , if one thinks of all that France and de Gaulle had been through since June 1940 . |
| 11 | erm er and one wonders after all the training where the future jobs are gon na come |
| 12 | If one cuts through all the technicalities and complexities of the document , which has actually gone to the Social Security Advisory Committee , it is perfectly clear that that was the core intention behind the Government 's move . |
| 13 | They wax one gets on all the clothes . |
| 14 | One walks through sun and rain , one walks through all kinds of weather to get there , but once sucked inside by the blatting doors , everything is desperately and essentially grey . |
| 15 | If one focuses on all the production that takes place within national boundaries , the measure is termed the gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 16 | They are lads like one comes across all the time in schools , workplaces and pubs . |
| 17 | The end-product , as everyone knows from all the projections and mock-ups they keep making public to try to justify the wildly escalating costs , will have two arms and two legs , a language capability , and a fairly sophisticated emotional and moral response . |