Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 2 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 3 | I 'm bidding them all farewell . |
| 4 | He had gone out looking for these mule packers who had wandered off the trail , hunting them all day and finding them , three mozos and eighteen mules , an hour before dark and a moment before the sudden gunfire came out of the canyon walls and caught them and ended four of the mules . |
| 5 | Their friend and spokesman Mark Lucas said yesterday : ‘ Writing it all down has been both painful and enjoyable for both of them . |
| 6 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 7 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 8 | So that spreadsheet is just sorting them all way across the bottom and all the way across the top . |
| 9 | After supporting them all day I could use some support myself . ’ |
| 10 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 11 | Winding down this little jet Ferrari was a tremendous anti-climax — I would like to have gone on flying it all week . |
| 12 | Lorne 's been balling me all day . |
| 13 | saying they all flower in the summer |
| 14 | and he 's doing it all day , seeing |
| 15 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 16 | Been doing it all week so I might as well get it over all in one week , like . |
| 17 | He 'd been doing it all evening . |
| 18 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
| 19 | ‘ Giving us all pneumoconiosis ? ’ |
| 20 | You see the next one right , the reason we 're totally opposed to it , as yous have been bloody debating it all morning , with the Labour Party , and I ca n't even bloody join it , cos I live in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
| 22 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 23 | I 've been spotting them all evening . |
| 24 | Although we are dot going to be hobbling a horse by three legs and tethering it all day out in the sun , we will need a tolerant horse if we wish it to do boring or repetitious work . |
| 25 | Making us all brothers and sisters and children again with God . |
| 26 | He 's been telling me all sorts of stories about the places he 's worked in . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Chico 's been telling me all kinds of interesting stuff . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ They became the rage and I was delivering them all day in the Rolls , ’ said Crawford . |
| 29 | I shall have to be looking out for a second hand bike-y just for the occasional trip into town without getting Stuey out of bed so I be a bit more independent than just bothering you all time , if I just wan na pop anywhere . |
| 30 | Now he said , ‘ Not content with pestering her all week , you take up her freedom at the weekend ! |