Example sentences of "all [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ So you see , what with the Church never keeping adequate records and relying on the personal network all the time and the patronage system doing the same but relying on a different network , we 're all rather in the dark . ’
2 All rather like a battlefield . ’
3 It is all rather like the trial in Alice in Wonderland — sentence first , verdict afterwards .
4 Gray 's Anatomy , however , eclipsed all others , partly for its meticulous detail , partly for its emphasis on surgical anatomy , but most of all perhaps for the excellence of the illustrations , based on drawings by H. V. Carter , who assisted Gray with the dissections , and engraved by Messrs Butterworth & Heath with remarkable skill .
5 The village took its name from the Roman road or straet known as the Gartree Road which passes close to the little limestone church of St Giles that now stands all alone on the skyline .
6 Damian 's gone to work and I 'm bored all alone at the villa with nothing to do . ’
7 There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood .
8 But what would happen to Twoflower , all alone in a city where even the cockroaches had an unerring instinct for gold ?
9 Then perhaps you 'll be happy — all alone in a kingdom of ice . ’
10 Oh , look at me , thought Marion , look at me , all alone in the kitchen with the man of my dreams .
11 But suddenly there was something of a puff of smoke and I found myself standing all alone in the alleyway with what might well be metaphorical egg all over my kisser .
12 It was about a week later and my leathers were still a little ruffled after the grating incident when I saw him sitting all alone in the waiting room .
13 Rather like a pressed flower , all alone in the world . "
14 ‘ And me all alone in the house since my son went to England .
15 And all alone by the looks of it .
16 The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight .
17 They used to have walks did n't they , all together with the dogs ?
18 All Together for the Dawn Chorus
19 Anyway , one morning the Commandant called them all together on the parade ground .
20 The dishes get rather confused when they 're all together on the table , ’ she added , trying to put things right .
21 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 ) .
22 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 .
23 But for Cara and Liam and Odette , it meant sleeping downstairs all together by the fire with the dog and even then not really keeping warm ; chipping ice from the water barrels every morning with blistered fingers ; doing something about the worn soles of her boots .
24 Tossing it all together in a heap in a pan , and then hoping for the best , would produce another totally inedible meal .
25 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 .
26 Plants will survive quite happily if you group them all together in the bath , soak them well , and leave about an inch of water in the bottom of the bath .
27 The rest of us were herded all together in the room opposite .
28 We can not thank you all enough for the kind letters of support and assistance .
29 It was all so unlike the train life of our own dear Queen .
30 But that 's all much of a muchness is n't it ?
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