Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] every [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Her social position has rendered woman keenly percipient of every thought and action beautiful or graceful , … taught from infancy to subjugate her passions and affections , her thoughts , her looks , her language kept under control … |
| 2 | Trembling and overwhelmed , Belinda slid into the passenger-seat , feeling its cool leather against her hot skin like a new caress , her nerve-endings were so alive to every sensation now . |
| 3 | Clara felt herself to be extremely fortunate in her membership of this group , and the insecurity of Janice 's position in it fortified her , for she knew herself to be more secure , less irritating , less tactless in every way than Janice . |
| 4 | The 1840 Preface to The Chronicles of Crime ; or The New Newgate Calendar indicates a new ‘ moral ’ tone — ‘ Chronicles of Crime must comprise details , not only interesting to every person concerned for the welfare of society , but useful to the world in pointing out the consequences of guilt to be equally dreadful and inevitable ’ . |
| 5 | Sitting weeping in the bathroom Agnes demanded of herself how she could have been so responsive to every whim of Magill 's mood and so dull but demanding and clumsy with Maxim … |
| 6 | So different in every way , even in looks , so grave and contained , so full of contrary ideas , and , sometimes , so blunt in uttering them , yet himself so perilously elusive . |
| 7 | Keeping only half of every gram is an act of will . |
| 8 | See most people had good intentions , whenever they got a whole lot of stuff from the Cooperative , they would say I 'll lay so much by every week and I 'll have it at the end of the quarter . |
| 9 | How indeed , when Almsmead was so much better in every way than this creaking old hall and the Goldsboroughs ' possibly valuable but , in her view , horribly antique furniture which had come with it , held together , she often thought , by little more than the beeswax with which it was polished . |
| 10 | Nurses must be constantly vigilant in every activity so that there is no break in infection control and this is especially necessary because the patient can come into contact with pathogens which have become resistant to one or more of the antibiotics . |
| 11 | The inevitable domestic dramas ; the illnesses ; the school exams ; the trips to casualty departments of hospitals ; the entertaining of foreign exchange schoolchildren ; the ferrying to and fro to Brownies , school camp , music lessons , the station ; the constant coming and going of teenage friends ; the battle of the telephone : it is all so familiar to every parent , and it is so exhausting ! |
| 12 | Yes , my wife is more or less unrecognizable in every way . |
| 13 | There 's only one of every person . |
| 14 | This was " a fact so well-known in every manufacturing town , that it would be idle to think of proving it " . |
| 15 | But its appeal is that it 's so over-the-top in every aspect , from the breathtaking plot lines to the flashy glamour clothes the women delight in wearing . |
| 16 | This is all the more significant when one thinks of the nature mysticism that was so common in every variety of ancient paganism . |
| 17 | They stared at one another , and as her mama had so often said , and thought again as she watched them , they were so alike in every way except their sex that they might have been two sides of the same coin . |
| 18 | The present study is immensely rich in every way , and is an impressive foray into largely uncharted territory . |
| 19 | Precisely when these four additional kadiliks — or five , including Mecca — became mevleviyets is not clear in every case , though it is certain in one case , and entirely possible in the others , that they were not made mevleviyets immediately on coming into Ottoman possession . |
| 20 | It states that sex is not appropriate in every situation where a couple are mutually attracted , or even within a relationship that is expected to last for some months or even years . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is not visible at every moment . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the hacked-out swastikas and spray-painted messages are still easily visible on every wall : KILL POOFS and NEXT TIME YOUR DEAD MEAT are the mildest of the lot . |
| 23 | Airbags are already standard on every Cavalier and Calibra , while half of the Astra range has one fitted . |
| 24 | The ability to obtain some patronage during an election contest was often essential to success , for it was not uncommon for every candidate in a crowded field to claim to be a friend of the administration in power . |
| 25 | But in a country with such wide differences in standards of living , the real value of the currency is not equal in every region . |
| 26 | Hdtest is not applicable to every time of hard disk , so you should check before using it . |
| 27 | This means that the exchange is normally involved in every application of its rules , even with a rule couched in terms of the bilateral rights between buyer and seller . |
| 28 | Also power supplies ( particularly electricity , gas and oil ) , water supplies and sewerage need to be easily available in every town . |
| 29 | Japan , in second place , sold just 0.71 for every person . |
| 30 | Exactly identical in every respect . ’ |