Example sentences of "it [verb] all [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Is it using all its fins , and are these fins held out proudly from the body or clamped ?
2 It has all his hallmarks , Fran .
3 It 's ha it happens all your life , the noise is there all the time
4 As it happened all his discoveries went against the Peripatetic views , and as he advanced so the attacks on him grew , largely because the lesser ones among opponents saw their cosy lives of repetitions of dogma in danger .
5 Its tension caught the reader , there was an emotion in it , shared between him and them and it turned all his attention away from himself on to the subject matter he was speaking .
6 It gets all its nutrition , all its oxygen etcetera etcetera through the placenta from its mother 's circulation and the mother has no problem whatsoever in her body functions , right , otherwise she would be a mongrel , so the food is going straight into the baby , it 's like being drip fed , there 's no problem .
7 ‘ Well , it gets all its moisture from seeds and dew .
8 I mean that , that have to hold top and bottom , you put something in the soil and it gets all its nourishment in the soil and that
9 It takes all your colour , ’ she began hesitantly , ‘ and I know I hardly look as though I would know which colour went with what , or what suited whom … ’
10 Yet when her visitor stepped a couple of paces forward as though requiring a closer look , it needed all her courage not to back away .
11 All the people that I 've seen trying to do it have all my sympathy , because I know what they 've been going through .
12 He had a long-life lead on and I tried to grab the long-life lead it burnt all my hand and he tried to attack the pit bull .
13 It melts all your disk drive .
14 So now you club whose Fulham name Of legend , myth and fable , Should show it merits all its fame By shooting up the table .
15 Mr Wallace acknowledged that his own ideas for a Scottish parliamentary council were unlikely to proceed , but a campaign for a multi-option referendum was ‘ the only thing we can all unite on as it encompasses all our differences ’ .
16 And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these
17 ‘ No ! ’ she squeaked , thinking that , far from it taking all his charm , her willingness could be achieved with only a minimum of persuasion .
18 When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night .
19 She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso .
20 It took all her determination to stand her ground until finally he brushed past her .
21 The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out .
22 It took all her strength to reach out for the receiver and raise it stiffly to her ear .
23 She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her .
24 It took all his willpower to keep his teeth biting into the rubber .
25 It took all his willpower and concentration to banish the sound of it , and fix heart and soul on the celebration of the Mass .
26 Even so , it took all his self-control not to lose his temper with Madge Grimsilk , for Therese , in the dark sapphire Rosa Ponselle gown , studded all over with flashing blue stones and with the huge peacock train spreading out behind her , was outstanding , so outstanding that the rest of the cast , pleased with their own designs but quick to recognize a ‘ star ’ outfit , burst into a little patter of applause .
27 And he says it took all his strength to make the journey from church to job centre .
28 It took all his time to wash and shave .
29 It took all my strength and nerve to control the final inch of its closing .
30 Do you know that it took all my self-control not to throttle that dim-witted boy ? ’
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