Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his introduction Norris acknowledges the difficulty of writing about him at all in such a context : |
| 2 | Suppose that my friend was not looking for me at all . |
| 3 | They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all . |
| 4 | Not looking for you at all . |
| 5 | Yet already they were ungrateful recalcitrant children , escaping from him in all directions , capable of forming new friendships and attachments . |
| 6 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 7 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 8 | He was not looking at me at all . |
| 9 | He was n't looking at her at all when he said this . |
| 10 | Sometimes the pitfalls in not looking at it from all these angles become painfully clear . |
| 11 | The runway , running east to west , had individual taxiways leading off it from all sides , taxiways to the circular parking bays where Russian helicopters had once parked . |
| 12 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 13 | ‘ How can you tell what 's been eating into him for all that time ? ’ |
| 14 | And she had wondered how it was she was speaking of him at all . |
| 15 | As Byron put it , ‘ I never loved nor pretended to love her , but a man is a man , and if a girl of 18 comes prancing to you at all hours , there is but one way … |
| 16 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |
| 17 | Please will you reply , otherwise I will leave you on the station and tell my friend 's mother that you are not coming with me after all . |
| 18 | We need to hear what the Lord may be saying to us in all of this and be open to the challenge of church planting and the support of other fellowships around us . |
| 19 | As in Australia , they were soon working flat out with people coming to them from all walks of life . |
| 20 | But then you hear a traveller at the railway station , prepared as a medieval knight , daysack on his front , chickenwire behind , was hit by five fat women , coming at him from all directions . |
| 21 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |
| 22 | The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions . |
| 23 | In and out , on and off , they 're coming at us from all sides . |
| 24 | Robbie nodded , mentally apologising to him for all the scathing epithets that had so nearly tumbled from her lips . |
| 25 | I suppose that 's why you do n't seem to mind Nicky and Florian knowing about it after all now . ’ |
| 26 | Endill watched in horror as he began hitting the handle , swinging against it with all his might . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman 's grasp of detail is usually so light that the idea of actually debating with him at all is risible . |
| 28 | It 's just er a small section of foot of a footnote which gives an account of the history of the clause in er of the section in the er Police Act of nineteen sixty four with which we are dealing and of course Your Lordships will be well aware that we moved on from Section er from the Sections of the Police Act , we 're not dealing with them at all , we 're dealing with what has happened to those Clauses since and I thought perhaps Your Lordship might Your Lordships might be interested in the sort of guidance which is made available th so , so fortunately to us and so that we can have our minds very clearly focused upon the issues . |
| 29 | Rock-climbers make sure they have lots of metal implements swinging from them at all times . |
| 30 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |