Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [v-ing] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 2 | Now of course the difficulty you ca n't i it 's a personal thing and you do n't like standing watching all this operation going on for too long . |
| 3 | To create this structure and make it work meant harnessing all C&P 's human talent — and the response was there . |
| 4 | If the trumpets of Britain had not been blown loud and long from St Mary 's , a different myth would have grown giving all the credit to America . |
| 5 | ‘ Mind you , it ca n't have helped working all this time for Ricky France-Lynch . |
| 6 | And it , you do n't have to keep changing all the paper , you just and it does it . |
| 7 | We should try to stop cutting all the trees down because soon all the animals wo n't have homes . |
| 8 | It would not have warranted summoning all district society presidents to London for a brief meeting , but the value gained from these was particularly significant . |