Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in trouble later bullying other kids , getting into fights , knocking down all the garbage cans in an alley , pulling fire alarms in her lunch break at school for the thrill of seeing the fire trucks go by , shoplifting . |
| 2 | Who 's been tearing up all the newspaper that the wet wellies were on ? |
| 3 | In a fit of madness I started tearing up all the ad records . ’ |
| 4 | But most of the work is going on actually in the auditorium where they 're stripping out all the wood er and putting in great big holes where they can put the fire exits in . |
| 5 | Er but I think you know , you 've got sort of police walking around all the time , erm it can aggravate things rather than calm them . |
| 6 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 7 | Incidentally , the idea of putting a compass in the seat recess with a seethrough window in the spraydeck is just plain daft ; apart from making you sick , looking down all the time would divert attention from where it matters , the sea . |
| 8 | They travel out next week , with their employers picking up all the hotel bills . |
| 9 | She was taken in by Maggie Taylor and now five month old Teka is fighting fit and lapping up all the attention . |
| 10 | No , it 's soaking up all the bread crumbs . |
| 11 | The next morning , the plan was ready to roll ; Tiphook began snapping up all the TIP stock in sight . |
| 12 | He waited a long while , looking out all the time for Caspar . |
| 13 | We rowed eastwards down the river all day , looking round all the time to check that no one was following us . |
| 14 | Is it that the fraudsters are the only section of society that is going to vote for the Conservatives er at the at the at the next election because certainly er the reputation of the city of London er is going down all the time because of the squalid frauds that are being perpetrated there a and the government is lagging behind er in catching up and in providing an effective regulatory framework er that 's that 's going to deal er with them . |
| 15 | To ease my conscience , for every parking I bought an indoor pot plant , so that by now we have a veritable jungle growing along all the window sills , crawling up the walls and wrapping their tendrils around the television set . |
| 16 | Without going over all the ground again it 's necessary to state that Siporax is a sintered glass material with a massive external and internal area for bacteria and therefore a remarkably small quantity should be able to filter a vast pond . |
| 17 | ‘ He took the girl home , and they lived by selling off all the furniture in the factory , bit by bit . |
| 18 | We were very fortunate but I do remember the guns used to go off and I , when my so my son was born the , the guns were going off all the time from the castle . |
| 19 | He says that he replaced the batteries , but the alarm kept going off all the time . |
| 20 | Pickers are turning up all the time — this lady expects to be paid about five pounds for her blossoms . |
| 21 | In the end an agreement on St Valentine 's Day 1979 was cobbled together of 9 per cent plus an extra £1 a week , but the stakes were going up all the time . |
| 22 | There 's new stuff going up all the time in Nottingham . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ Our production is going up all the time . |
| 24 | This is found by adding up all the spending on the final goods and services produced by firms . |
| 25 | The government are paying up all the money . |
| 26 | " The rows started because of money and him going out all the time , " said the woman who arrived in the refuge on the same day as me . |
| 27 | And when he started going out all the time , she started going out occasionally . |
| 28 | Southall , delighted with the look made famous by the great Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin , has even added to the macho image by pulling out all the padding which comes with today 's goalkeepers ' shirts because he thinks it gets in the way of doing the job properly . |
| 29 | Oh gosh , I wish there was forty eight hours in every day , and there were ten days in every week , and it 's still no good , with forty eight hours , they 'd still find enough to do , they 'd still be racing around all the time . |
| 30 | But the prop kept going round all the while , and opening up afterwards produced no problems . |