Example sentences of "[to-vb] every [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It 's a long way for him to come every time he wants a crap , said Eddie , running off before I could hit him . |
| 2 | Now , as you all know , we 've got a big job on , and we 're going to have to work every hour there is to get The Hooded Owl up to the standard I know it can reach . ’ |
| 3 | After getting their men off to work every morning there were the cows to chase off to the moor , hens to feed and housework to be done , then the serious work could be tackled . |
| 4 | On the contrary , the conditions governing pension should be such as to encourage every person who can go on working after reaching pensionable age , to go on working and to postpone retirement and the claiming of a pension . ’ |
| 5 | I want to know why you 're having me watched , why you need to know every move I make , why you must have control over everything I do . " |
| 6 | But even though they guaranteed to provide every customer who had allowed three quarters of an hour er for a meal , you know , you would have to lay down in very great deal would n't you ? |
| 7 | He was a virtual dictator but had to write every letter himself and took no leave for fifteen years . |
| 8 | if you have n't if you 're just trying to remember every word there is in the dictionary you 'd be there all your life and you 'd still never remember them all . |
| 9 | He seemed to grudge every word he spoke . |
| 10 | He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at . |
| 11 | Pesci plays a shifty real estate agent who becomes a thorn in the flesh of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover … and manages to steal every scene he is in . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't drive over potholes ’ : as a cyclist , if I tried to avoid every pothole I saw , I would not be here to write this letter . |
| 13 | And as her body and limbs thrummed in the dizzy afterflow Fernando deepened his penetration , shuddering against her till she clung to him , grinding herself under him to give him the ultimate pleasure , to enhance every thrust he pounded into her , to draw him hard down into her power and her love . |
| 14 | Charles Dickens apparently claimed to hear every word he wrote . |
| 15 | They want to identify every patient who was operated on by Dr Yarub Almahawi in Dungannon before he was diagnosed HIV positive in February 1990 . |
| 16 | start as we should AIM TO visit/contact every customer who has not responded or has responded negatively to ascertain the reasons why and endeavour |
| 17 | Looking back over this chapter I am struck by the dreadful pitfalls which seem to beset every step which the sociologist might contemplate taking in documentary research . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ We will still want to win every competition we enter . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've wanted to win every game I have ever played in and I will never change that outlook . |
| 20 | ‘ I know I am not going to win every time I 'm in contention , I never have and probably never will . |
| 21 | Only one form of training in managing this double act is likely to succeed : staff and governors need to be encouraged to support every movement which makes the best of their own school . |
| 22 | He looked at her with hard eyes that seemed to see every thought she had ever had . |
| 23 | I wish to see every witch who is trying to make my life a misery . ’ |
| 24 | We would like we would like to go every week you know |
| 25 | Yet it 's James they have to thank every time they sink into their armchairs to listen to their favourite classics . |
| 26 | The tart smell of burned crops seemed to taint every breath they took , despite the filters both wore . |
| 27 | A couple of lines of dialogue established Lotty Wilkins and Rose Arbuthnot as repressed middle-class wives , one compelled by her slob of a husband to record every penny she spent , the other characterised as having the face ( and by implication the disposition ) of a disappointed Madonna . |
| 28 | ‘ When you telephone us for a quote , we will assign a member of staff to you , whom you can contact whenever you need to , without fear of being charged extra in costs , as some solicitors are wont to do every time you telephone them . |
| 29 | That 's what I used to do every time I thought about selling 'ouse |
| 30 | For example , when the musical phrases get complicated because of the use of many notes , the dancers find themselves using their hands feverishly in order to give every note its value . |