Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] what all " in BNC.

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1 I du n no what all these people are doing .
2 Yet the fact that their competition did not reverse what all scholars agree to be a distinct , if modest , improvement in all but the environmental conditions of the working classes suggests the scale and impetus of economic expansion .
3 But while Wainfleet 's apology had been specious and he really did not see what all the fuss was about , he was not quite as carefree as he had let them think .
4 But Aqib countered : ‘ We did not know what all the fuss was about .
5 In fact I do not understand what all the fuss is about . ’
6 The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it .
7 She 'd had a 24-hour labour but often said she did n't know what all the fuss was about these days .
8 I did n't see what all the fuss was about .
9 ‘ I do n't know what all the fuss is about , ’ Clive Berlin , QPR 's managing director , said .
10 I do n't know what all .
11 ‘ I just do n't know what all the fuss is about .
12 I do n't know what all this means . ’
13 For a moment Merrill thought that Rob was n't going to answer , then he sighed , loosened the knot of his tie , and said , ‘ I do n't know what all this is about , but I can see that it does matter to you .
14 I just do n't know what all this bloody nonsense is about .
15 Gerald Thomas allowed himself to add : ‘ I do n't know what all the fuss is about . ’
16 Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I do n't know what all the fuss is about .
17 And it 's like a viscous circle all the time between us my , I do n't know what all become , apparently erm , mother is erm , cos I said you know , you all going to mother 's at Christmas and they said oh no she 's talking about going away .
18 They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down .
19 GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it .
20 ‘ I still do n't understand what all the fuss is about , ’ Ellen replied in a slightly peevish tone .
21 ‘ I do n't understand what all this is about , ’ he said , in the tones of a reasonable and patient man .
22 Sir Stanley Matthews , who was the first footballer to be knighted says he still does n't know what all the fuss is about .
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