Example sentences of "all [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The problem is that , quite understandably , we all tend to stick to the tried and true and therefore repeat over and over again the same skills .
2 Moreover , because depression , inflation , or other economic distress can bring down a government , and because jobs , prices , production , the standard of living , and the economic security of everyone , all tend to rest on the performance of business , politicians and administrators alike have to regard business as more than just another interest group .
3 Ideas , materials and methodology used all tend to come into the country from outside .
4 Television is such a visual medium that we all tend to concentrate on the images and not the words .
5 Longhorns , Galloways , Highlanders and other hardy breeds are all expected to benefit from the booming demand from Germany , Denmark and the Netherlands .
6 Explaining to Louise the pull of foreign lands ( December 11th , 1846 ) , Gustave writes : ‘ When we are children , we all want to live in the country of parrots and candied dates . ’
7 ‘ Because everyone who comes along to interview me has , as you have Paul , read all the clippings , then they all want to talk about the same things , and I become this kind of caricature .
8 Wally , Wally I 'm sorry to interrupt you , colleagues , you 're starting to babble a bit , I know you all want to get to the European Fair and the wine and the cheese and all that sort of thing just bear with us for about ten minutes .
9 There are times when we all want to get inside the other person 's head and switch a few knobs to re-programme them completely .
10 At first sight the five all appear to live on the same species of grass , herbs , and small bushes .
11 Grandparents , schoolfriends and neighbours all tried to write to the children , to send messages of love and support .
12 This new assessment of his home marked an important casting off , a kind of liberation , and if in later years Ottery remained symbolically important to Coleridge , that was only because his recollections of the shaping years of childhood all seemed to gather at the town .
13 Mum , Dad , Roland and Heather all came to stay over the Easter weekend which was really good fun .
14 All of them were chasing the duck but they 've all they 've all decided to stop for the moment , they 're all sitting down on the grass .
15 In the block we start running from just in front of the ladder , but on the night we 've first of all got to run from the block to the wire , which is twenty yards away in the nearest place and then put the ladder up .
16 Er and you then , you get to the time when you 're all going to get in the car and go off .
17 They cooperate because they all stand to gain from the same outcome — the survival and reproduction of the communal body — and because they constitute an important part of the environment in which natural selection works on each other .
18 In some cases , such as defence or law and order , we all stand to benefit from the service and it would be difficult to envisage how it could be financed other than out of direct taxation .
19 At its southernmost end is the village of Gargrave where the river Aire , the Skipton — Kendal road , the Settle-Carlisle Railway and the Leeds-Liverpool canal all meet to travel among the low-lying valleys of the Aire and the Ribble .
20 But , in the absence of something in the context which suggests that narrower meaning , the authorities in the 19th century and earlier all seem to point to the conclusion that the requirement to establish a conviction requires a proof not only of the finding of guilt but also of the court 's final adjudication by sentence or other order .
21 If the raw material of most of these ergs has been provided by other agencies , as differences in character between the surface wind-worked material and the sand at depth seem to indicate , then the locations of desert dunes , coastal dunes and periglacial dunes all seem to depend on the concentration of sand provided by some.other factor .
22 Similarly , it is often the case that senior officials within the civil service all seem to come from the same sort of background .
23 They were all summoned to appear before the Bishop and all were charged with playing tennis during Whitsun week , in between times of Matins and Mass .
24 All set to return to the fray ?
25 Then harnesses the horse , the caravan is ready , all set to roll behind the thrusting black .
26 all starting to get into the
27 After a few minutes we all started to move along the ditch .
28 The idea of providing a decent service to a customer is probably dead , so we might all try to look for the protection of the might , majesty , dominion and power of the English Common Law .
29 Said Mr Robinson : ‘ Several views were aired and it is now important that we all try to push in the same direction to the benefit of the club . ’
30 The genes in a pack of wolves do n't all stand to gain from the same set of events in the future .
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