Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give the customers plenty of opportunity to see you from all angles and let them feel the cloth if they want to . |
| 2 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 3 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 4 | There 's no reasson to keep it at all . |
| 5 | The interpretation of what remains as historical evidence is after all fundamental to the historians craft , but the deliberate preservation of historical source materials in the absence of context ( or worse still the failure to preserve them at all ) surely does little justice to the society in which we live . |
| 6 | She could sense how his body moved towards her subtly ; how , with the utmost casualness , he strove at each moment to include her in all that was said . |
| 7 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 8 | ( Not such a bright place to stick it after all . ) |
| 9 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 10 | If I start thinking of It as a person , entitled to a dignified end , the next thing will be of course that I have no right to end It at all . |
| 11 | Intimacy means allowing one person to see you with all your defences down , stripped of any masks . |
| 12 | Have you had a chance to play it at all ? |
| 13 | Keeping in moisture to protect it against all manner of evils . |
| 14 | Indeed , I may say it was not my wish to see you at all . |
| 15 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 16 | You know all the psychiatrists will tell you that comedy is a kind of biological mechanism to save us from all the things we fear most , death being one of the , you know , the most is just a spit away you see . |
| 17 | Jim , true to his word , may be the man to fix it after all . |
| 18 | He stared out of his constricting net of anxieties and fears at this clean , smooth , well-intentioned boy , and wondered why he should be expected to make the effort to answer him at all . |
| 19 | ’ It took quite a lot of resolution to utter it at all . |
| 20 | We will call inferences of this type bridging inferences in order to distinguish them from all the possible inferences which could be drawn from a particular sentence . |
| 21 | I got my just desserts from Dad , which made my Mom cry more than me , but all in all I was given enough love and affection to cushion me against all the hardships that were to come . |
| 22 | Indycar teams and suppliers are still taking part in next weekend 's ‘ pirate ’ race in Australia , despite FISA 's threat to ban them from all international motorsport |
| 23 | The constraint for social workers wanting to do family work with elderly clients is to be allowed the time to do it at all . |
| 24 | From 1924 my father intended to write a major work about his friend and that is why he had asked Modigliani 's mother to supply him with all possible information about his childhood and adolescence . |
| 25 | Now it was a three hundred page document er have , have many of the delegates been able to have time to digest it at all ? |