Example sentences of "[prep] all [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | After all these statements he announces , ‘ If I were disposed to stir your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage , I should do Brutus and Cassius wrong for they are honourable men . ’ |
2 | So now after all these years we are taking He Pito Whakaatu i Te Noho a Te Maori i Te Awa o Whanganui ( Scenes of Maori Life on The Whanganui River ) , made in 1921 , back to Koroniti . |
3 | After all these years she still could n't resist a feeling of pride when she said that to a total stranger . |
4 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
5 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
6 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
7 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
8 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |
9 | After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game . |
10 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
11 | After all these years I 'm definitely |
12 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
13 | ‘ After all these years you 'd think he 'd be careful . ’ |
14 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
15 | After all these years he was still afraid . |
16 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
17 | It 'd better be after all those needles they stuck in me so I wo n't get beri-beri and co . |
18 | After all those years it was at last made clear to me why I had this fear . |
19 | I mean , after all those years it is difficult to take in . |
20 | Perhaps those are things that in the best of all possible worlds we would n't want to but we are forced so to do . |
21 | Subject to the contrary agreement of the partners : ( 5 ) Every partner may take part in the management of the partnership business ( 7 ) No partner may be introduced as a partner without the consent of all existing partners ( 8 ) Any difference arising as to ordinary matters connected with the partnership business may be decided by a majority of the partners , but no change may be made in the nature of the partnership business without the consent of all existing partners It is obvious enough that if a partner is to be held responsible for the acts of his co-partners committed in the name of the firm he should in principle have : ( 1 ) unrestricted access to information about those acts ; ( 2 ) every right , indeed a duty , to assume personal responsibility ( equally with his co-partners ) for the conduct of the firm 's affairs ; and ( 3 ) the right ( by exercise of a veto ) to prevent any act for which he is unwilling to accept liability . |
22 | He 's free of all major complications it 's quite remarkable . |
23 | Basically , that means maintaining quality work , but easing down to give my body time to recover and possibly even occasionally allowing myself the luxury of collapsing on the settee , falling asleep and dreaming of all those races I wish I could still win . |
24 | ‘ When I think of all those months I lived in the Store , not even knowing about the Outside … . ’ |
25 | I was just about to say something like " What 's the idea of all those tricks you play on me ? " when I took my first look at the dog and everything else fled from my mind . |
26 | But it represents a way of doing it which is not what the members of this Committee , of all three parties I suspect , want to do . |
27 | and in one of the rooms he used to have these girlie pin-ups of the dame , these portraits of all these women he used to fancy in a few years time . |
28 | I 've seen two of all these houses I walked round at Bridlington , I thought all the gravel looked quite nice , you know , with the odd plant and and things through the gravel . |
29 | that looked fantastic and everyone said oh god he 's so artistic you know and he 's a butcher he was n't really but we just used to sit down and think of all these ideas you know |
30 | The problem is that without measuring the heights , and their frequency , of all adult males we will not know what a representative sample would be . |