Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Mr Gittings ' head was obviously beginning to spin from all this toing and froing . |
| 3 | The scenario at this stage was that Friern would be allowed to die with dignity à la Powick , once the catchment district services were sufficiently strengthened to provide for all new patients . |
| 4 | In the time when the dinosaurs dominated the daytime economy , our mammalian ancestors probably only managed to survive at all because they found ways of scraping a living at night . |
| 5 | The ‘ take-away ’ industry has grown suddenly and dramatically , as has the consumption of vast quantities of junk foods — you only have to look at all those supermarket trolleys piled high with packets of crisps and cans of fizzy drink . |
| 6 | There 's just this , it 's just really funny cos I sound really wrecked yeah and I say look hello , hello look Norwegian people I just want to apologize for all this mess and all this crap on this tape but I mean yeah like you know , fuck it |
| 7 | Can I can I do you think I could just ask to run through all these , cos er you you put a couple of strange tunes |
| 8 | A man of his far from sanguine temperament would hardly want to go through all that again . |
| 9 | Simone was one of those girls who hardly seemed to change at all from one year to the next . |
| 10 | But while dealing with one of their biggest cases , the local branch of the RSPCA has still had to cope with all the day to day demands on their time . |
| 11 | Many managers feel that they understand how to run meetings so well that they hardly need to prepare at all . |
| 12 | Carefully structured to cater for all tastes in tourism it allows for those who like to follow strict schedules as well as providing easy reference points for the more adventurous . |
| 13 | Anyway , she wanted to , me to go and see her , she said there we there was a scanner appeal , and she was also trying to talk about all sorts of other things that were possible and because there was an arts appeal and for arts facilities at the hospital , and all sorts of things . |
| 14 | These ‘ Notes from a Mud Hut ’ very nearly failed to survive at all . |
| 15 | It is always possible that when you do the job specification of a long-standing job you will decide the job does not really need to exist at all ! |
| 16 | Detectives say they now want to talk to all her former clients , and insist they 'll be as sensitive as possible . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't really have to go to all that trouble . |
| 18 | If you are planning to move , Town & Country are uniquely qualified to assist with all aspects of relocation — from finding the right house/apartment to finding the right school . |
| 19 | In several places the road simply ceased to exist at all — there were cliffs , a hole 50 feet wide and 10 feet deep . |
| 20 | You will then need to go through all your entries to edit out your wrong spellings and inconsistencies since it is unlikely that you will have transcribed everything perfectly the first time . |
| 21 | I mean , what we initially wanted to do with all this was cover this whole area in , in greenery and have this as a sort of restaurant ta type . |
| 22 | There are good clinical reasons for this approach , since elderly people with mental disorder suffer from a complex range of mental , physical , and social problems and no one profession is adequately equipped to deal with all of these on its own . |
| 23 | At that moment , as she faced to him , waiting for an answer , Guido swung the steering-wheel round to negotiate a corner , barely bothering to decelerate at all as he did so — so that Ronni suddenly found herself lurching towards the dashboard . |
| 24 | If the constant clock frequency is set too high the motor is unable to accelerate the load inertia to the corresponding stepping rate and the system either fails to operate at all or loses steps at the start of its travel . |
| 25 | He therefore failed to exercise at all the statutory discretion . |
| 26 | If it is diatonic we may never need to modulate at all . |
| 27 | It will have been noted that , not content with imposing upon themselves the task of ruling through the tendering of advice , which might have been thought difficult enough , the British took upon themselves in Northern Nigeria the even more difficult task of ruling without actually appearing to rule at all — an undertaking whose very absurdity only emphasizes its interest . |
| 28 | The reason for setting aside a through the request as researchers where we 're actually going to go through all the procedures , highlighting , the changes are and why . |
| 29 | Britain can never hope to compete with all this . |
| 30 | One recently refused to fly at all without two pilots aboard , even though it was pointed out to him that there was only one set of controls . |