Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The world 's exotica is over there , parading for all the universe to see , and you are here … ’ |
| 2 | Restricting your consumption of fats is a sound way to lose weight and a healthy way of eating for all the family . |
| 3 | His osteopath had premises near Regent 's Park and all the way Berg kept apologizing for all the trouble he was causing and Rain kept assuring him it was none at all . |
| 4 | You 're sorta runnin' about all the time , so you do n't get time for anythin' else really . |
| 5 | And it was not the option of walking behind all the way to Winchester . |
| 6 | The Jews were walking into all the plum jobs , in the medical profession especially , which infuriated Odilo and his friends , and which , to be frank , even worried me . |
| 7 | By the mid-1930s his work was regularly appearing in all the society magazines as well as in Harper 's Bazaar ( then under the creative art editorship of AY McPeake ) , in the company of his avant-garde contemporaries such as Rose Pulham , Winifred Casson and Barbara Ker-Seymer and other innovators of the time . |
| 8 | What is happening to all the waste ? |
| 9 | And when you get to the branch you get your bumf and you sit there looking through all the bumf . |
| 10 | Turning up like the proverbial bad penny , acting for all the world like the Mountie who always got his man — or , in her case , woman . |
| 11 | And as we are unlikely to see any real harmonisation of accounting procedures , fiscal requirements or business practices throughout the Community in the near future , pan-European accounting systems will be increasingly important to the large number of UK companies looking for all the help they can get . |
| 12 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 13 | This blocky layer is carried along on top of the moving flow , looking for all the world like rocks on a conveyor belt in a quarry . |
| 14 | The distinctive leaves of Begonia grandis evansiana , looking for all the world like an escaped house plant , but hardy enough to grow outside , are also grown in abundance . |
| 15 | A few days later a 69 Squadron Maryland approached the airfield , looking for all the world like a Ju88 . |
| 16 | Bellybutton , a straw hat over his eyes , danced a few ludicrous steps on the deck of the workboat , thus looking for all the world like a simple Bahamian native welcoming the nice white folks from Georgia who now stood blinking in the bright sunlight beside a growing mound of their designer-label luggage . |
| 17 | In the corner of the pool sat Debbie Harry who leant into my face and — looking for all the world like Benny Hill 's mum — said ‘ Is this the same James Brown who championed The Wonder Stuff and Happy Mondays ? |
| 18 | He sat in the low chair with his head bowed , looking for all the world like a genius deep in contemplation , though in fact he was fast asleep . |
| 19 | We visited Sanur Beach , where we painted fishermen working on their outrigger boats , extraordinary craft with huge ‘ arms ’ , looking for all the world like giant multi-coloured sea creatures . |
| 20 | The work was unplaced , but the concept was electrifying — a smooth , lacquered black box with an ominous bulge at one end , looking for all the world as if something inside wanted to escape . |
| 21 | He left the set that day looking for all the world like a nine-stone weakling who had just thrown sand in the face of the beach bully . |
| 22 | Faith immediately admitted that she finds a lot of advice about healthy eating plain confusing : ‘ It 's very difficult sifting through all the information that 's pushed at parents and weighing up what 's really important . |
| 23 | The transcriptions are no less taxing , with virtuoso writing for all the orchestra . |
| 24 | The housekeeper was in charge of mending and looking after all the linen from the various parts of the house . |
| 25 | The whole hall was used and , in spite of the comparatively poor response , it seems that there were difficulties in fitting in all the work . |
| 26 | I was looking in all the shop windows , at the reflections . |
| 27 | That occurred although Lord Morison , the Court of Session judge who issued the new decree , made it absolutely clear after listening to all the evidence , that he did not consider any of the allegations made by Mr Vafa 's former wife , or her father , to have been well founded or substantiated . |
| 28 | I remember listening to all the music that was around at that time and understanding it with a naivety which I wish I still had sometimes , putting a band together when I was nine or ten and playing the talent show at grade school , writing songs and still having the godawful things around the house . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , my dear friar , according to all the evidence we have , Sir Ralph went to bed , and locked the door behind him , keeping the key with him . |
| 30 | Schofield said : ‘ I shall be looking at all the press cuttings when I get home and deciding what action to take . |