Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because if you do , you 'd better start undoing all these goddamned buttons while the fire 's still hot . ’ |
| 2 | Firstly , said the Government , it did not want to stifle all criticism of the way its policies were carried out . |
| 3 | I became a Member of the House in 1983 on a promise from various people that we would legislate less , that we did not want to legislate all the time , and that we would examine matters more carefully . |
| 4 | But it did not do to use all one 's pieces at once . |
| 5 | One was found — ‘ a pragmatic , civilized feminist who did not pretend to understand all that had happened to Laura but had the good sense to see that she was a great deal saner than her parents . |
| 6 | A person who drew on someone 's bank account was assuming the rights of the owner , and to be guilty the accused did not have to assume all rights of the owner . |
| 7 | I enjoyed Richard who was a casual , almost brutal lover , his desire rising and spending itself as impatiently as mine , so that I did not have to suffer all that tedious , preliminary business of fondling and stroking , and I enjoyed my baby , which surprised me as I had not expected to . |
| 8 | He did not attempt to remember all the features that together make up a face . |
| 9 | Highly career-motivated middle-class people fill silences with socially acceptable noises ; people at the base of a hierarchy do not appear to need all this noise . |
| 10 | The answer is that we do not intend to meet all that shortfall . |
| 11 | I do not intend to list all the normal things Excel can do — just take it for granted that you will be able to set up a spreadsheet to calculate whatever you want to — but I want to concentrate on some of the features that will certainly save time , effort , and head scratching . |
| 12 | If our concern is health , widely defined , not merely medical care , it is probably inevitable in our present society that resources do not exist to meet all the demands that the pursuit of health for all may make . |
| 13 | I do not mean to deny all that has happened — there are some beautiful modern buildings . |
| 14 | I do not want to die , James my son , but I do not want to live all my life in an English prison . |
| 15 | Do not try to get all the way back to the launch point unless you have ample height . |
| 16 | unc It follows that we do not need to compute all the unc elements of R ; n ( n + 1 ) /2 elements , comprised in the diagonal and below , are all that are required . |
| 17 | Although we do not need to reconsider all the issues relating to the corporatisation of local government during the 1970s , it is important to remind ourselves of the widespread adoption of policy and resources committees , consisting of the senior elected members ( with sub-committees specialising in land , finance , personnel and performance review ) . |
| 18 | We do not have to destroy all beliefs for some of them — even though false — sustain useful action . |
| 19 | Dot did n't want to forget all about it . |
| 20 | Yeah I know , we did n't want to have all our boards up |
| 21 | Then there was plenty of work for them but then when the erm , the one man buses really got going and they introduced the night safe on the buses , the ticket office was cut drastically , they did n't need to have all this information . |
| 22 | At least that did n't keep moving all night . |
| 23 | I took myself off and got some decent therapy and learnt that it was OK just to be — I did n't have to do all the time . |
| 24 | So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night . |
| 25 | So you could actually , if you 've got , if you then put , if those graphics people were fairly high powered art directors and they did n't , they did n't , they were n't like , did n't have to show all their stuff , that they had enough news sense to not make any more mistakes than most layout people do on newspapers , which are sometimes colossal , like burying the lead or putting the big story on page thirty-eight , you know . |
| 26 | ‘ Surely you do n't want to ruin all our good work , do you , darling ? |
| 27 | In terms of growth that we actually want erm unlike I think perhaps one of the we do n't want to put all our eggs into erm one one basket erm one million pounds in terms of er of course we want to do that the income of the budget which is actually feasible and practicable er in terms of of I take it that as where it says the Liberal Democrats are going from a growth of a hundred and fifty million erm on town centres that there probably was an error . |
| 28 | I do n't want to go all the way to the left of the knitting to pass the point cam at 60 on the left . |
| 29 | Yeah alright well I 'll probably only do about four so I do n't want to take all the cards . |
| 30 | I like Canterbury , it 's very compact and there 's a Cathedral if you do n't want to shop all the time , there 's plenty of little places to eat . |