Example sentences of "[adv] in all [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture of the Child of Prague looked down in all its red and gold splendour on the framed photograph of the late Superintendent Michael O'Neal who smiled widely on three little blonde heads who should have been in their beds . |
| 2 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 3 | I 've never seen two sides defend so ineptly in all my life . |
| 4 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 5 | That lavish endowment of talent , which had been blotted up in sport and intense boyish preoccupations , was now called up in all its force and it did not let him down . |
| 6 | Johnnie Armstrong , distinguished from others of that surname by the to-name of Black Jock , dressed himself up in all his finery and rode with fifty of his best men to meet the king in Teviotdale , obviously hoping to impress him as a near equal . |
| 7 | Actually I looked up in all my reference books . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Mrs Stych , moving slightly towards the inner revolving door so that the Persian lamb swung out in all its glory . |
| 9 | Restoration by a small team led by Terry Sykes started in 1988 and looking at this dainty locomotive now in all her glory , their efforts have been well rewarded . |
| 10 | He had never done that before in all their life together . |
| 11 | This is because economic loss can be of unforeseen proportions , can far exceed , in many cases the total contract value , and thus be a risk which it is for all practical purposes beyond the financial strength of most businessmen to assume , particularly if they were to accept such risks routinely in all their business dealings . |
| 12 | I do n't think I ever moved so fast in all my life . |
| 13 | The Sakata factory was a couple of kilometres into the valley and he had never ridden so fast in all his life . |
| 14 | William and Mary Ann were there in all their glory , as we might expect : he with a spotted waistcoat and flamboyant flowery buttonhole , she with an expanse of fur on her head and around her shoulders . |
| 15 | The raw little syllable sits there in all its nakedness . |
| 16 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 17 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 18 | While the ambulance waited , it had to be carefully put away in the cupboard , as she had never in all her life left things draining by the sink . |
| 19 | She was a firm favourite of everybody there , a kind , loving , generous woman who never in all her life judged anyone . |
| 20 | ‘ Darling , ’ he said , ‘ you have never in all your life been in love with a man as you are with me , yet it happened . ’ |
| 21 | I remember that we sat opposite each other — the arrangement I most preferred — so that I could observe evéry modification of his countenance ; and I have to say that never in all our acquaintance had I witnessed such patience and sheer kindness . |
| 22 | Never in all his experience , wrote Taylor , had he seen or heard of such covenants in a mining lease . |
| 23 | He had millions in the bank , rumour went , and had never in all his life paid any tax at all . |
| 24 | Step aboard in all your finery and you 'll barely need to incline your head , let alone disturb a vicuna pleat or crush the crinoline . |