Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 2 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 3 | Well I got to work all day and I 'm still oh do you think , want me I can get you two I 'll write you a list , . |
| 4 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 5 | I DECIDED TO PUT ALL SECTIONS OF THE LAKE AND RIVER SYSTEMS IN THE BACKGROUND |
| 6 | ‘ I endeavour to serve all parties to the best of my ability , ’ the lawyer said repressively . |
| 7 | The fact that everybody around me looked and sounded completely different from myself was worrying and disconcerting ; I wanted to shed all semblances of my past civilian life and be assimilated totally into the system of the Legion . |
| 8 | Failure in 44 and 45 when I wanted to rally all Frenchmen together … |
| 9 | While the Conciliation Committee fiddled , a conflagration threatened at Liverpool which promised to set all Britain 's ports alight . |
| 10 | In the past , the courts have often been hostile to exclusion clauses , particularly those drawn in wide terms which seek to negate all liabilities of the party relying on the clause . |
| 11 | The group — which intends to donate all proceeds to Cancer Research , the MacMillan Nurses and the Special Baby Care Unit — is looking for sponsors , and are more than willing to wear sweatshirts with logos on them . |
| 12 | Thus , many community mental handicap teams have devised absurdly ambitious operational policies which attempt to do all things for all persons . |
| 13 | Where these conditions do not prevail — as in health care — writing , setting , and enforcing comprehensive contracts which try to predict all contingencies and deal with all possible risks becomes very difficult and costly ( Bartlett 1991 ) . |
| 14 | The right-angled Swastika symbolizes the centrifugal force which strives to release all things from the gravitational pull and propels us towards mental activity , growth and evolution . |
| 15 | De Gaulle 's proposals for a " French Community " included a provision that any colony which wished to break all ties with France would be free to do so , simply by voting no in the constitutional referendum . |
| 16 | Most damage was suffered by salmon farms , which had to destroy all fish born in 1991 . |
| 17 | You got your sugar ration in the morning which had to last all day : one egg cup full , a red plastic egg cup with ER on the bottom . |
| 18 | These criticisms often relate to the inevitable problems of producing standard forms of contract which have to suit all situations , and which are therefore never the perfect answer to any particular project . |
| 19 | ‘ She was running around at 10 months and she loves to sing all day long . |
| 20 | Those who want to outlaw all cages wo n't be satisfied with these ideas . |
| 21 | But the Peace People are there for prisoners ' wives who want to break all connections with the gunmen . |
| 22 | She seemed to lack all will or decision . |
| 23 | ‘ And what are you going to do all day ? ’ |
| 24 | What are you going to do all week ? |
| 25 | Have you got to tape all people 's voices ? |
| 26 | Do you remember to cancel all deliveries when you go on holiday ? |
| 27 | Joseph is instructed to escape to Egypt where they will be safe from Herod , who intends to kill all boys who are two years old and under , in an attempt to be rid of this new so-called king . |
| 28 | We 're entitled now you know to have all sorts of things done at the doctors , coming up to the right age to be hav to be done er |
| 29 | When you began to make all sort of when c contacts began to be made between erm you and South Wales in terms of support |
| 30 | Suddenly , she began to hear all sorts of sounds , footsteps and slitherings . |