Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vacations had proved such a strain that she stopped going home at all in the end , applying for any holiday jobs which offered accommodation . |
| 2 | Then my money ran out and I stopped going out at all . |
| 3 | And did they reflect that they , who had not merely mastered but discovered the much more difficult law , who had got their economics so impregnably right , would be seen to stand shining brightest of all in the very front rank ? |
| 4 | This involved beaming heartily at all newcomers to the carriage and exuding humour , warmth and trivial monologue . |
| 5 | Yuppies wo n't like living across from all that noise . |
| 6 | Er and do you remember living there at all or well . |
| 7 | All except Gooseneck , Amiss and one of the girls were in ordinary clothes , and having looked at what was available for breakfast Amiss wondered why they had bothered turning up at all . |
| 8 | Over the years I have discovered that the subjects I enjoy doing most of all are not far from my home ; my garden , conservatory , figures usually doing something , are my favourites and my family and friends are commandeered regularly for this purpose . |
| 9 | What do you like doing best of all . |
| 10 | But the first thing she had to do was suss out the lie of the land — there was no point in going charging in with all guns blazing . |
| 11 | For years he was a member of the Saturday sub editorial staff processing the comprehensive sports copy flowing in from all parts of the world for Ireland Saturday Night , a newspaper for which he had a deep affection . |
| 12 | Fifty yards off the fox ran into some hares and they went careering off in all directions , one of them dashing up a heather slope to cause an explosion of grouse . |
| 13 | If Candy realised the game Adam was playing , she would go storming in with all guns blazing , never stopping to think of the possible consequences , all her protective instincts roused in defence of her best friend . |
| 14 | They kept peering about on all sides as though they knew that he was not far off but they seemed reluctant to leave the path . |
| 15 | Curious thing — she who held on to so many grievances , never spoke twice about the money she kept pouring out on all of us . |
| 16 | I was telling Adrian that , you were putting a red light up in my bedroom that I as long as your brother kept coming home with all his friends . |
| 17 | But Elsie Birdsall and Lavinia Thwaites kept coming in with all kinds of things to try and get me going — home-made soups , arrowroot , custards — and finally I began to mend a little . |
| 18 | Now 98 per cent of their business is with the top exhibitors , and this means keeping up with all the new varieties being bred . |
| 19 | I think coming together after all these years has given them a new lease of life |
| 20 | The first thing to do is get up as quickly as possible , so practise falling down in all directions and jumping up again as fast as you can — until the whole movement becomes automatic . |
| 21 | Watch it Tim and see what happens because that yellow bit will start mingling in with all the other bit . |
| 22 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 23 | Initially it was the drumming that got me bouncing in my seat , but when the bass came in I just could n't help grinning insanely at all the other drivers , wishing they could hear it too ( mind you , I had it up so loud that they probably could ) . |