Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] they all " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slapped both hands palms down on the table , slopping his tea and making them all jump , totally unselfconscious in his misery . |
| 2 | Now that you have a vague idea what is going on , you could be forgiven for throwing up your hands in disgust and letting them all get on with it . |
| 3 | When practising a complete and complex system drill it is of course not possible to place all the separate drills side by side and drill them all in one go . |
| 4 | I wish him and his friends no evil , ’ said Bishop Jon , shaking down his book-satchel and peering into it , ‘ but it 's a difficult thing to make plans for your country with them sitting there , their heads switching from this shoulder to the other , and so sleek you would think it was a cow that licked them all . |
| 5 | She gave a loud , bitter shout of laughter that made them all stare . |
| 6 | At first I could n't see them , but when I heard a little quack I had a close look and saw them all there huddled together and trying to keep warm . |
| 7 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
| 8 | He was talking faster and faster , pulling an accordion pleat of plastic cards from his pocket , folding and unfolding it , slipping each card past the robot 's swivelling eye and puffing them all back again before it could read any of them . |
| 9 | The children opened each jar and sampled them all . |
| 10 | Chief Inspector of CID took charge and charged them all and then diplomacy came in and they went to court , discharged , back on the ship , and away . |
| 11 | ‘ It represents a new way of thinking about the media world we live in and a new way of learning the skills of active engagement and critical reflection with all forms of modern media — television , video , film , radio , print , and the glue that binds them all together — advertising , ’ says Sister Elizabeth Thoman , Executive Director of the Center for Media and Values . |
| 12 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 13 | Then Miss Harker lifted her head and addressed them all in solemn tones . |
| 14 | Following the instructions , I filled my saucepans and kettle with water and set them all to boil . |
| 15 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 16 | ‘ Your teeth 'll be straight in six months , and you can get contact lenses when your father 's insurance comes in at Christmas , grow a bosom and stun them all . ’ |
| 17 | Faster than a computer , Robyn 's mind reviewed these candidates for the target of the strike and rejected them all . |
| 18 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 19 | So I did all their clothes last night and got them all dried |
| 20 | He was not good at knowing when a bit of humour would go down well , but by late afternoon there was some news that cheered them all . |
| 21 | It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe . |
| 22 | Mrs. Browne had been at their Mayfair flat and seen them all off together . |
| 23 | At the feast that night , Eachuinn Odhar lay back in his chair and shocked them all . |
| 24 | Do you really think that the Jolly Green Giant puts the lights on at two o'clock in the morning and gets them all to pick the corn ? |
| 25 | All you have to do is draw all the little bits of an object and push them all together to make a silhouette of the object and then performing one combine operation joins them all together to make an outline that would take you a lot longer to draw in one piece . |
| 26 | And about the spider 's web of international capital that links them all — rich and poor , East and West — together . |
| 27 | The Driver in the case of a light engine then goes to the telephone to inform the Signalman each end of the tunnel and give them all particulars and if blocking both lines . |
| 28 | She tipped the cassette box out on the floor and jumbled them all back what she 'd not heard for ages was now at the top . |
| 29 | I left them as I approached No. 6 Commando positions and stood at the side of the road and watched them all pass by . |
| 30 | The Mamur Zapt was in charge of law and order in Cairo and that meant keeping the city quiet and stopping them all from getting at each other 's throats . |