Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] all [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 2 | The tell-tale signs of erosion here inside the cylinder head , plus obvious coking up all evidence of damage caused by unleaded petrol , used by unsuitable cars . |
| 3 | The cell 's steel door was then closed , shutting off all ventilation for those detained inside . |
| 4 | After giving up all hope of ever being parents , the businessman and his wife learned of a young English girl living on Corfu who was putting her baby up for adoption . |
| 5 | ‘ When I took up music , it meant giving up all thought of a family . |
| 6 | ‘ If they 're running about all day in the fresh air , that 'll make them hungry , I should think ! ’ |
| 7 | " This Meeting , with every feeling of humanity for the distressed Sufferers , who have the misfortune to be shipwrecked on the coast of this Island , have to regret that numbers of the Country prople , shaking off all fear of God , or regard to the laws , are in the constant practice against every rule of Christian charity , or hospitality , of resorting in numbers to the shores , where strangers have the Misfortune of being shipwrecked , and that for the sole purpose of plunder ; which practice this Meeting hold in the greatest abhorrence , and now declare their disapprobation of ; and in order , as much as possible , to remedy this evil , this Meeting not only collectively , but individually , pledge themselves to use their utmost exertions , not only for the preservation of the property of the individuals , who may have the Misfortune to be wrecked on these coasts , but also for bringing to condign punishment all and every such persons as may be found plundering from wrecks : " |
| 8 | It must have been bought by the bolt , for it kept showing up all year in pantaloons and children 's dresses , or on servants . |
| 9 | ‘ Be frank , on the road you do n't want all the bullshit , sitting up all night with them , chatting to them , they nick your f—ing mini-bar , nick your clothes . |
| 10 | From behind the door that swung closed against her back , the guests heard Fru Møller tell Fru Gertlinger to put more coffee on to brew : ’ They 'll be sitting about all morning in weather like this ! ’ |
| 11 | He had been doodling obsessive box-like designs , a nest of interlocking right-angled lines locking out all possibility of error or surprise . |