Example sentences of "all [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all met for the international meeting at Salzburg in 1908 , having corresponded from 1906 onwards . |
| 2 | They all met for the first time on the show . |
| 3 | By the time he had managed to crawl on to the bed , dragging such scarves as he could find to shield his eyes , for the curtains were only flimsy cotton of a summer rented house , all annoyance , all regret for the wasted day , all intentions , all straining for activity , was gone , absorbed into the panic that connected — as if there was a piston rod — his throbbing head , the lights crossing behind his eyeballs and his churning stomach . |
| 4 | Franco 's own forces were similarly , if less virulently , shot through with internal rivalries and disagreements ; but if confronted with a choice between the status quo and the risk of " the reds " returning , they would all opt for the former . |
| 5 | Sizwe Motaung , Philemon Masinga and Sean Donnelly are all tipped for the Premier League . |
| 6 | Secretly , we all yearned for the expensive egg-less sort . |
| 7 | I had been fed on a diet of Enid Blyton and her boarding school series , so I was eager — even excited — to be joining one when I came over to take my ‘ A ’ levels in the late sixties : I was not at all prepared for the harsh realities of English middle-class racism . |
| 8 | In education no single customer is always right , people are n't all looking for the same things . |
| 9 | He knew he was n't going to regret the move from the moment they all assembled for the first rehearsal . |
| 10 | But in world judo at present , there is a group of young fighters all jockeying for the top positions — and in the first day of the World Championships here yesterday , they began to sort themselves out . |
| 11 | When we did The Taming of the Shrew , every time Petruchio yelled — and he had a fine voice — all the peacocks answered , and on the opening night I could feel my neighbour shaking with laughter because the peacocks were all jostling for the best places to roost in the trees . |
| 12 | first of all go for the right angle sort out the hypotenuse okay . |
| 13 | All creating for the next decade and beyond opportunities for a ship building industry . |
| 14 | Alan Irwin captains the side and he will have Robert Glenn , Brian Faith , Taff Watson and George Neilly all fighting for the other two berths in the back row . |
| 15 | Yet the cases which fail to set up trusts all fail for the same good reason : because they do not make clear an intention on the part of the settlor that a trustee should be legally obliged to a beneficiary . |
| 16 | Lion-hearted Nigel does n't worry about the high-speed horrors of blasting around a concrete oval , six inches from a wall at up to 240 mph with 30 other drivers all battling for the same space — and no runoffs if you crash . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most astonishing changes of all occur for the average changes for Shire Districts within each County . |
| 18 | ‘ We are all working for the same goal , ’ he says . |
| 19 | ‘ We are all working for the same country , after all . |
| 20 | The reason why so many of us are here is the immense regard which we all have for the hon. and learned Member , our friend , for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) . |