Example sentences of "all [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had to put them all on in a piece you see with the tube in it and er things became much easier when the wheel base trim came in . |
| 2 | All rather like a battlefield . ’ |
| 3 | In 1905 , at age 48 , he walked 200 yards , ran 200 yards , cycled 200 yards , rowed 200 yards and swam 200 yards , all in under a total of eight minutes , and in 1903 he had swum five miles in the Thames ( two of them against the tide ) . |
| 4 | I do n't suppose I 'll be able to take it all in for a while . |
| 5 | Cos I think we 're all in for a chance to getting it now , fifty thousand |
| 6 | I was ready to chuck it all in after a decision that flew in the face of reason . |
| 7 | Indeed Bob Arum , the promoter , who put it all down to a conflict of styles , recently dismissed his ranked middleweight Michael Nunn for such a negative performance . |
| 8 | And it 's all down to a Wildlife Rescue Group . |
| 9 | Erlich wrote it all down in a pocket notebook , longhand . |
| 10 | There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood . |
| 11 | But what would happen to Twoflower , all alone in a city where even the cockroaches had an unerring instinct for gold ? |
| 12 | Then perhaps you 'll be happy — all alone in a kingdom of ice . ’ |
| 13 | The operating system to hold it all together as an application transparent , single system image , is the Chorus V.4-compatible micro-kernel-based system , on top of the ISIS message broadcasting algorithms from Cornell University ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 14 | Plod could herd them all together into a group , march them to and from their destinations , depriving them along the way of all alcohol ( not to mention all civil rights ) and beat the living daylights out of any who still insisted on stepping out of line . |
| 15 | Tossing it all together in a heap in a pan , and then hoping for the best , would produce another totally inedible meal . |
| 16 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 17 | But that 's all much of a muchness is n't it ? |
| 18 | All apparently at a cost of as little as £11,000 . |
| 19 | How else should a person look , while , in the course of a single ceremony , he kisses everything goodbye — just blows it all away in a prodigal storm of confetti and rice ? |
| 20 | But there 's always a but if there 's really a moral lesson it 's all just like an observation . |
| 21 | My legs get all tingly after a bit on account of how I 'm sitting , but I do n't move . |
| 22 | MODEL Lisa Butcher got away from it all yesterday with a mystery man . |
| 23 | Round it all off with a pair of boots to suit your level of walking , some gaiters to protect your lower leg and stop debris getting into your boots , and you 're ready for anything ! |
| 24 | And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips . |
| 25 | And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips . |
| 26 | Mm I think if you try and do it here , so you make it into a shoe shape , you curl it all up into a shoe shape , where do you think it 's going to go ? |
| 27 | She had already thrown yesterday 's damp tea-leaves on to the parlour carpet , and when she had finished in the surgery would take a small , hard hand-brush and , down on her knees yet again , would painstakingly sweep them all up into a dustpan , to remove the previous day 's dirt and dust , Miss Mates said , and purify the air . |
| 28 | The tapes are erased afterwards what they do is somebody types it all up and erm then they build it all up on a computer . |
| 29 | You could put your hand up and ask questions , and you were n't all up at a level on him , he was at the same level as you , talking , and he knew all our abilities so he explained things more clearly to us . |
| 30 | While it is unremarkable to observe that although some people eat three meals a day , and others miss out breakfast and lunch altogether , taking all their food in the evenings , there is no such parallel during sleep — no normal person has been found who , for instance , takes all his or her REM sleep in one session of ninety minutes at the beginning of the night , or saves it all up for a session in the early hours of the morning . |