Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] on all " in BNC.

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1 She tried to get up on all fours , and bumped her head on the underside of the bed .
2 I seemed to miss out on all the fun in those days , my spells afloat were few and far between , while ashore at Felixstowe I was very busy as trade in that port was building up rapidly .
3 Traffic 's slowly beginning to ease up on all major routes coming out of Oxford , Abingdon and Aylesbury and no major problems to report in the centres either .
4 But later , from the end of the Triassic onwards , certain species within the genus began to drop down on all fours , although this does not mean that the quadrupedal forms descended from bipedal forms — or merely got tired of walking on two legs .
5 Indeed , if inflation should rise to rates which have not been experienced in the recent past , firms may lose confidence and decide to cut back on all their investment plans .
6 I do n't want to cut down on all his drinks , and I do n't really want to start ‘ lifting ’ him to the toilet .
7 Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions .
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