Example sentences of "all [noun sg] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they ! |
| 2 | All day long a team of labourers , pale with cement dust , streamed up a plank out of the hold with the bags of cement , like a trail of ants . |
| 3 | ALL day long the midnight sky built its bastions of cloud over Fenwick and the south . |
| 4 | Once up in the front line , troops found that life had been reduced , in the words of a Beaux Arts professor serving with the Territorials , ‘ to a struggle between the artillerymen and the navvy , between the cannon and the mound of earth ’ All day long the enemy guns worked at levelling the holes laboriously scraped out the previous night . |
| 5 | Anxious to be seen as having made all the right decisions , she added with a little pride , ‘ There were n't no need for a nurse , 'cause I looked after the mistress myself … stayed up all night when the fever took her … mopped her brow and talked nice and low ‘ til she come through it . |
| 6 | All night long the thought of his being hand in glove with Harry Martin had lingered at the back of her mind . |
| 7 | Then we got our fears confirmed that there was a heavy sea on ; all night long the wind had howled round my room . |
| 8 | All week long the behaviour of the crowd had been impeccable . |
| 9 | In all probability therefore the action was carefully co-ordinated . |