Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pron] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They do n't cost British industry or taxpayers a thing , but of course they take all their expertise abroad . |
| 2 | And of course they closed all the night classes , did n't they ? |
| 3 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 4 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 5 | Of course we take all of these worries seriously — but I want you to get the scale of the complaints in perspective . |
| 6 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 7 | Well of course we did all that too , but we also went around with Oliver . |
| 8 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 9 | of course he got all upset so she had to then mess about and try and get him to sleep , which apparently she did |
| 10 | Of course he picked all those that looked most like the wretched bowl of fruit . |
| 11 | Yes , because of course you had all the equipment to shape it up anew |
| 12 | Yes yes yes when when when I grew older , of course it took all the men When er you know one would b the the whole lot would be going together you know . |
| 13 | Of course I know all that 's no reason why I ca n't have a bike . |
| 14 | It is a form of cooking which uses all the senses — listening to the sizzling fat to tell when chicken is fried just right , smelling to detect the moment a cake is baked to perfection . |
| 15 | The evidence that there is just one kind of cell which generates all the blood cell types — a multipotential stem cell — comes from destroying the stem cells of mice and then replacing them with just stem cells . |
| 16 | Given the complications , we have to strive for a definition of violence which incorporates all these aspects . |
| 17 | The department has an active programme of research which covers all sectors of Electronics and Electrical Engineering . |
| 18 | It is a thorough , comprehensive piece of work which covers all aspects of dairy farming from housing , feeding , to health and production . |
| 19 | And the progress of capitalism itself eliminated all intermediate divisions between the individual and his or her world class ; nations , like estates , provinces , religions , families , would all be superseded : |
| 20 | To the casual visitor Cheltenham is a thriving shopping centre , a centre of affluence which attracts all the best names . |
| 21 | I 'm not the kind of person who spends all their free time glued to the telly . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that increasing expenditure on day one of a new Government while failing to deal with the important issue of taxation is the fastest way back to the high levels of inflation which characterised all Labour Governments ? |
| 23 | And whilst this massive imbalance has an enormous amount to do with international capitalism , imperialism , racism and militarism , it is also embedded in the historical development of patriarchy which precedes all other oppressions , post-dates fascist , socialist and communist revolutions and seems to recognise no boundaries when it comes to cultural , regional and racial differences . |
| 24 | She has spent the last 18 months researching and writing the kind of cookbook which brings all the old fun and the sheer sensual pleasure back into cooking — and eating . |
| 25 | Whether it was the relaxed ambience of the city , the clear warm air , or a strange sense of anticipation which heightened all her senses , Gina could n't be sure , but as she made her way towards the Rådhuspladsen — the imposing City Hall square — measuring her stride to avoid the rows of cobblestones which checkered the paving stones beneath her feet , she suddenly felt hungry , despite the champagne breakfast she 'd enjoyed on the flight . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) The denial that there is some one and the same quality of pleasantness and another of painfulness which mark all those experiences which it is desirable to promote or prevent is a more forceful objection to Benthamite utilitarianism . |
| 27 | So in a kind of celebration which links all three , the TSCC are linking up with Bairds of Belfast and the Ulster Vintage Car Club to stage a commemorative hillclimb at Croft on Saturday week . |
| 28 | According to Sartre , history is only born from a sudden imbalance of scarcity which disrupts all levels of society and initiates conflict and therefore progression . |