Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can build a wardrobe around it , blending it with all your usual clothes . |
| 2 | This , his last concerto , was the first great concerto for the clarinet , and nothing has come near to matching it among all of the wind concertos written since . |
| 3 | Ideally , you 'll try to absorb all the information here by applying it to all keys . |
| 4 | He turned , the light from outside silhouetting his face , robbing it of all expression . |
| 5 | That this is the common apprehension of mankind with regard to perception is evident from the manner of expressing it in all languages . |
| 6 | I do n't like me voice , I 'm not liking it at all and I think that 's what putting me off on taping it and listening to myself after , I do n't , I like , I like |
| 7 | Cos th without actually forcing it at all . |
| 8 | ‘ Yer doin' it fer all the best reasons . |
| 9 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
| 10 | Bettacare 's Head Hugger — a softly quilted , specially shaped cushion which rests around the baby 's head , supporting it from all sides , provides the answer . |
| 11 | Or not getting it at all . ’ |
| 12 | We are not getting it at all . |
| 13 | One of the two largest owls of the region , an enormous , almost eagle-sized bird , the prominent ear-tufts and facial disc distinguishing it from all diurnal birds of prey . |
| 14 | No , he would n't , was n't having it at all |
| 15 | She 's milking it for all it 's worth . |
| 16 | In New York most beach pollution comes from overloaded storm drains , while in Europe , particularly in the southern countries , many cities discharge their sewage into the sea without treating it at all . |
| 17 | No , cos they 're doing it for all , they 're all doing for all over different places anyway . |
| 18 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 19 | Peer pressure is a factor , but not necessarily in a coercive way ; a teenager who is n't sure how to smoke a joint will be more worried about losing face from doing it wrong than not doing it at all . |
| 20 | We can split domestic labour 50–50 , but I 'm the one who 's going to feel defined by doing it at all . |
| 21 | Should cats be doing it at all , should any animal be made to do those sort of tricks ? |
| 22 | Every dancer has got a different job to do on the road — as if dancing were n't difficult enough — but you know what most people would say : ‘ It 's art , it 's dance , it 's Britain , you should be grateful to be doing it at all ’ . |
| 23 | And as Mary Douglas ( 1973 : 15 ) had pointed out , ‘ if we can not bring the argument back from tribal ethnography to ourselves , then there is little point in starting it at all ’ . |
| 24 | Pascoe peered at the drink before putting the glass to his lips , as if drinking it at all was a risky thing . |
| 25 | the pool with blood , staining it for all time , |
| 26 | Though he had gone through the motions of caring she saw now with the painful wisdom of hindsight that , despite all his assurances of love and respect for her , he had really only been interested in his own pleasure , pursuing it with all the subtlety of a bulldozer . |
| 27 | My first step was really to get to know London by walking and drawing it from all angles . |
| 28 | In the dream , I was singing it in all me funny voices , from the squeaky one to the gruff one and it was a pile of bollocks . |
| 29 | The message is that drivers who do n't break their journey , are in serious danger of not completing it at all . |
| 30 | He might have been spooning it into his pocket , not eating it at all . |