Example sentences of "and [verb] all the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 While Man has stopped developing , animals seem to learn , adapt and change all the time .
2 They switch and change all the time , phu ! like this .
3 If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done .
4 Fast starting John Ferrin ( North Belfast ) set the previous record of 29.16 last year but yesterday it was Larne man Wilson who took the lead after only 800 metres and led all the way .
5 and knotted all the while .
6 and knotted all the while .
7 and knotted all the while .
8 and knotted all the while .
9 Then I pull a lump of flake from the loaf and pinch off 10p piece-size pieces and squeeze all the air out of them .
10 I try to keep my diary clear and concentrate on collating and editing all the material that has been arriving in my in-tray over the previous weeks .
11 He lifted Denis 's hand and placed all the money in it .
12 Christian Aid is not in a position itself to set up and service all the training which it is envisaged might be useful to supporters .
13 She and I are going to clean Moor House from top to bottom , and make all the Christmas preparations that you know nothing about , being only a man .
14 Now , suddenly , he was going around being angry and upset all the time , and smiting people .
15 The grasping young usurer forces him to bear very hard on the firm 's debtors and to carry all the odium that this entails .
16 Sometimes this could be rather deflating to our egos as we enjoyed handling our ships , keeping them smart and clean and maintaining all the equipment and machinery in good operational order in readiness for any job we were asked to do .
17 This kicks off with a bog-standard 25MHz 486 and goes all the way up to a 66MHz 486 DX2 .
18 Moran gave them a pound , Rose took a red ten-shilling note from her handbag and they left in the same whirl as they had entered , dancing and singing all the way out to the lorry .
19 And I can I can vividly remember now coming along Nuthall Road towards Nuthall from Kimberley and seeing all the telegraph wires hanging down , pushed down to the floor , broken , with the weight of snow .
20 I can remember doing Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Theatre with the NYT and seeing all the scenery and lighting down on the stage at the end of the last performance and thinking how exciting it was to belong to the world of make-believe .
21 They 'll calculate as if Carmichael sold the whole consignment to end-users and made all the profit himself .
22 Miss Chalk , who joined Pipe a couple of months ago , started 5-2 for the first division of the Yellow Collar Selling Hurdle and made all the running to beat Dreaming Star by 10 lengths .
23 In practice , therefore , it is safest to measure the elevation range of the terrace by determining the altitude at the back and the front , to map the terrace , and to arrange all the terrace fragments on some sort of diagram designed to show the height ranges of the fragments .
24 Scientists can not be observing and experimenting all the time , and when a scientist is thinking about communication he is no less subject to the superficial attractions of the ‘ transporting ideas ’ model than the rest of us .
25 Colin 's father Brian , 50 , sent his son programmes for every home game , while Middlesbrough striker Bernie Slaven sent him a video tape and got all the team to autograph a football shirt for him .
26 Distantly she remembered that she had never understood the art of it , had to work on it , conscious and struggling all the time .
27 It would seem that erm i it was n't in the interests of one 's ultimate reproductive success to be too easily satisfied too much of the time because remember , it 's a question of relative reproductive success an and the individual that gets that little extra is is effectively gon na be , gon na be the one selected , so yes I would think that erm it 's probably naive to think that natural selection would , would make you feel er satisfied and content all the time it would probably induce erm a state of mild chronic discontent which is I think what most people actually experience in life
28 Clearly , it may not be possible to ingather that information within the time after service and it , therefore , becomes of critical importance that the insurance file has properly identified the witnesses , has detailed statements from them and has all the documentary back-up relevant .
29 LENNOX LEWIS last night threw down the ultimate gambit to world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe saying : ‘ If fighting me is so personal , let's do it and send all the money to Africa . ’
30 The neck is fixed to the body exactly as on the Teardrop , and my comment about the strap button on that guitar also applies here ; the Phantom is very neck heavy and needs all the help it can get to stay on an even keel .
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