Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] all [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking around all night . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 3 | With her diet sorted out , Lisa was also advised to do a lot more exercise , because her job entailed driving around all day rather than walking . |
| 4 | Driving over the wide crossroads , for the second time , without another car to be seen , she had a vision of herself driving around all night . |
| 5 | They have wide pelvises and calve easily , even to a Charolais bull , and are hardy and robust , living out all year round . |
| 6 | After completely flushing out all hydrocarbon , the plugs were saturated with a brine of 100 000 ppm NaCl . |
| 7 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it . |
| 9 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 10 | Tom had to go racing round all morning rounding them up again . |
| 11 | I 'd been going round all morning and never seen him . |
| 12 | The tell-tale signs of erosion here inside the cylinder head , plus obvious coking up all evidence of damage caused by unleaded petrol , used by unsuitable cars . |
| 13 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 14 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 15 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 16 | She took the kitten in its little cardboard box to the bedroom and was constantly getting up all night , peering at the tiny bundle of black fur . |
| 17 | The Old Stager was on to a theme which he had clearly been bottling up all season . |
| 18 | Wolfenstein is so addictive you will probably attempt to play it to a conclusion by staying up all night . |
| 19 | Wolfenstein is so addictive you will probably attempt to play it to a conclusion by staying up all night . |
| 20 | But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health . |
| 21 | Father and son had become locked in a verbal jousting match which had ended with Tristram stamping out of the house and staying out all night . |
| 22 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 23 | I wish you 'd ring in when you 're staying out all night , you know you 've said you will . ’ |
| 24 | Staying out all night they are . |
| 25 | The cell 's steel door was then closed , shutting off all ventilation for those detained inside . |
| 26 | He wrote immediately to the SMG , cutting off all contact : ‘ I am not interested in agencies who politic and posture for no other reason than to promote themselves … secondly , as I am not presently able to place any trust in you , I must insist that any further matters you wish to raise are channelled through to a suitable agency , viz the local council or HCRC . ’ |
| 27 | The wave passed on , dropping her into a terrifyingly deep trough , cutting off all contact ; a solitary cell of blank , featureless water . |
| 28 | And now , just as I was giving up all hope … |
| 29 | After giving up all hope of ever being parents , the businessman and his wife learned of a young English girl living on Corfu who was putting her baby up for adoption . |
| 30 | ‘ When I took up music , it meant giving up all thought of a family . |