Example sentences of "[conj] all [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just a pity that all that effort you expended was wasted really . |
| 2 | So wh are you saying that all this stuff you want for the admin course , you 're gon na raise money separately or do you want |
| 3 | It 's almost worth advertising alcohol just to preserve the lobbying the brewers indulge in to prove that it does n't encourage young people to drink , just for the sight of their endless statistics that prove that all this money they spend on advertising is n't making anybody buy their product : run this by me again , why are you doing it ? |
| 4 | It appears that all this time I too was working flat out , because , in addition to a heavy load of teaching , I was writing articles right and left , as well as tinkering with the political book . |
| 5 | we had Jaws and all that lot you know , there was , they had Jaws on and you 're just going round this corner and bloody great water comes up and jaws opens |
| 6 | and all that frost we 've had all last week I never slipped once |
| 7 | Often we 'd stalk a herd for days on end , and all that time we 'd never even catch a glimpse . |
| 8 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 9 | It seemed an age before he returned , and all that time she had been painfully aware of the blaze in her inflamed hind-quarters . |
| 10 | And so every night when they got home there was all kinds of people , I mean you know say miners and anybody as well , they all surrounded this house and when the police brought him in , of course they were booing and all this business you see . |
| 11 | Anyway they had the her handbag away and so they got all her trust cards and all this business you know |
| 12 | And all this time you were recovering and repairing ? |
| 13 | But he said , " Do n't sleep with him " , and all this time I was pregnant . |
| 14 | My head spun that night , and all next day I felt weak and disordered . |
| 15 | Boy called Daniel could n't write Daniel cos all last year he 'd been allowed to put Danny an he 'd forgotten how to write Daniel ! |
| 16 | And another boys name was Thomas and he could n't write that cos all last year he 'd been Tom an he 'd forgotten how to write his surname they 're not dim children both of them |
| 17 | If all that money we gave to Band Aid did n't do the trick , it must be because there are just too many of them . |
| 18 | But all that time we were friends . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's snug enough here , I 'll grant you , ’ said the first nome , ‘ but all this stuff you get outside , what d' you call it , begins with an N — ’ |
| 20 | During the Depression Silver sold china and glass in Fifth Avenue , worked a petrol pump , and sold cigarettes wholesale ; but all this time he was collecting Walt Whitman ; he also studied for a Master 's degree in English at Boston University , which he was awarded in 1941 . |
| 21 | Why now , when all this time he 'd stuck rigidly to her real , rather austere christian name , had he suddenly switched to the softer-sounding Rory ? |