Example sentences of "all [adv] [prep] the [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 | It is all rather like the trial in Alice in Wonderland — sentence first , verdict afterwards . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Damian 's gone to work and I 'm bored all alone at the villa with nothing to do . ’ |
| 6 | Oh , look at me , thought Marion , look at me , all alone in the kitchen with the man of my dreams . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rather like a pressed flower , all alone in the world . " |
| 10 | ‘ And me all alone in the house since my son went to England . |
| 11 | And all alone by the looks of it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They used to have walks did n't they , all together with the dogs ? |
| 14 | All Together for the Dawn Chorus |
| 15 | Anyway , one morning the Commandant called them all together on the parade ground . |
| 16 | The dishes get rather confused when they 're all together on the table , ’ she added , trying to put things right . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The rest of us were herded all together in the room opposite . |
| 20 | We can not thank you all enough for the kind letters of support and assistance . |
| 21 | It was all so unlike the train life of our own dear Queen . |
| 22 | By early in the seventeenth century several of the states of Europe — France , England , the Dutch republic , Venice — already had permanent diplomatic representatives more or less securely established in Constantinope ( though the English and Dutch ones at least were for long concerned above all merely with the fostering of their countries ' trade : the former continued to be paid not by the British government but by a group of merchants , the Levant Company , until as late as the 1820s ) . |
| 23 | John had not expected such an overwhelming response , and as not even the Ballroom itself could contain such large numbers , he took them all outside into the street to make his selection . |
| 24 | You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’ |
| 25 | If they want to take it all away in the end and match me up with that slimy halfwit , why then take me up to the mountain and show me the world ? |
| 26 | And all just for the joy of doing it . |
| 27 | ‘ Not feeling very much at all just at the moment , Sister , ’ he joked . |
| 28 | I used to roam all just round the country , round this area , which was all fields at that time and when you got at top , top of you were more or less in the country . |
| 29 | I think there 's another jacket that he 's got and there 's no room to keep them all downstairs on the hook hanging in the passage |
| 30 | There were also half-a-dozen scores of 70 : all still in the hunt were Simon Griffiths ( Wentworth ) , Lee Westwood ( Worksop ) , Adrian Carter ( West Hill ) , Lee James ( Broadstone ) , Jonathan Barnes ( Brokenhurst Manor ) and Ralph Hutt ( Southport/Ainsdale ) . |