Example sentences of "all [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All rather like a battlefield . ’ |
| 2 | There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood . |
| 3 | But what would happen to Twoflower , all alone in a city where even the cockroaches had an unerring instinct for gold ? |
| 4 | Then perhaps you 'll be happy — all alone in a kingdom of ice . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Tossing it all together in a heap in a pan , and then hoping for the best , would produce another totally inedible meal . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But that 's all much of a muchness is n't it ? |
| 10 | All apparently at a cost of as little as £11,000 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | But there 's always a but if there 's really a moral lesson it 's all just like an observation . |
| 13 | My legs get all tingly after a bit on account of how I 'm sitting , but I do n't move . |
| 14 | MODEL Lisa Butcher got away from it all yesterday with a mystery man . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the thing is we were all really I mean thing I 'd we 've all nearly in a state of undress anyway . |
| 18 | The cream stucco on the houses — the imposing pillared porches with their black-and-white tiled steps ; she felt as if she had seen it all before in a dream . |
| 19 | We can not afford to get them all here for a costume call . ’ |
| 20 | The Museum of British Road Transport at Coventry , the Patrick Collection , the National Motorcycle Museum near the NEC , and the huge Aerospace Museum at RAF Cosford are all well worth a visit . |
| 21 | The Springers have now decided to sell and do it all again on a plot not far away — but this time with an indoor pool for year-round use and half-doors so children can be kept within sight of the kitchen and gym . |
| 22 | Maria 's brilliant smile was for a particularly attentive television camera , but the dreams sparkling in her eyes were uncontrived , as pure delight and ambition triumphed over all else for a moment . |
| 23 | When at last we were all safely in a carriage , he would saunter off to buy a paper , and other people were coming in . |