Example sentences of "all [prep] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together they had three children , all of them would die in the fire . |
| 2 | Pete 's guess was that everybody in the valley knew something about her by now , and nearly all of them would know that she was staying in his house . |
| 3 | All of them would live more happily if they and the world remained in ignorance , and to try to achieve that I would give them the one gift I could . |
| 4 | But there can be nothing irrational about preferences which are reflectively consistent , so that the agent who pursued all of them would have no regrets . |
| 5 | Again , some of these processes occur in normal adolescence and indeed even all of them may occur in some people in the absence of drug use , although this is improbable . |
| 6 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |
| 7 | The Man had taken his jacket off and was holding it out in front of him and all of them could see what he intended to do . |
| 8 | The Sharrock family know they 've had a lucky escape ; any one or all of them could have been injured , or even killed , when someone threw a brick at their car from an overhead footbridge . |
| 9 | I must say that not all of them could afford the fees . |
| 10 | He spoke with awe and fear in his voice , and as if he believed that only Minch herself among all of them could know and understand what might be in Men 's minds . |
| 11 | Not all of them will go . |
| 12 | Nearly all of them will become users of electronic publishing systems , many will find themselves responsible for such users ( as advisers and managers ) , and we hope a significant number will become developers of innovative systems . |
| 13 | Almost all of them will die within a few weeks of being shed . |
| 14 | Whether or not they expected it when they were first elected , nearly all of them will have learned to accept ant to derive fulfilment from the ‘ welfare ’ function . |
| 15 | Some smoke alarms can be linked together so that if one of them senses smoke , all of them will sound an alarm . |
| 16 | The heading in the manuscript appears to tally with a stage direction in the word-book , ‘ A Chinese Man and Woman dance ’ , printed between the final verse and chorus ‘ They shall be as happy as they 're fair ’ But this direction means merely that the Chinese Man and Woman are to dance to the music of the verse , just as the next printed stage direction , ‘ All the Dancers join in it ’ , which follows the words of the final chorus , means that all of them should dance to its music . |
| 17 | The letter " 0 " has many lines of symmetry though all of them must pass through the centre of the letter . |
| 18 | Harriet Schleifer is a vigorous employer of selected horror stories : ‘ Thousands of animals are assembled in a single location , close to a building that all of them must enter to die . |