Example sentences of "all [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But once pounds and deutschmarks and francs and lira were all competing against each other in every high street , their exchange rates would always reflect what each currency could actually buy .
2 So too did religious books , with new books from our many friends at ‘ 121 ’ and good old ones from the libraries of several retired Ministers all contributing to this success .
3 They were all laughing at such ineptitude when Wainfleet telephoned .
4 The idea can also be used to explain the fact that the galaxies are all receding from each other because , just like the Big Bang , the ‘ Little Bangs ’ create not space ( and trivia like matter and energy but spacetime .
5 A vast area of towns all spilling into each other , we must have hit something , Geilenkirchen , we were looking for oil .
6 He did , and with a relieved smile she turned back to talk to her new-found friends on her other side , and within half an hour , to Donal 's exasperated amusement , had quite a crowd round her , all vying with each other to tell her stories .
7 This had them all looking at each other .
8 We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction .
9 probably yeah , they 've gone outside though Ah I was gon na say to you if you get us all going on some aerobics
10 I saw armies of beautiful women all heading in that direction . ’
11 Because they 're all pulling on each other . ’
12 We 're all pulling for each other because we 've all grown up together — from the youth team to the reserves and the first team .
13 Oh yes yes er I should say that er Street er Street then you get into Palfrey now you see Palfrey was a little bit less due to the fact that there were a hell of a lot of railway men at work down there , I mean really all belonging to some department on the railway , you get er drivers and all the men and the permanent way of being in Street I mean a lot of people from Palfrey lived down lived in Palfrey was working in the permanent way in Street , so it was a really , Palfrey you could say was a railway community .
14 Chairperson of Westport UDC , Sean Staunton , who is also chairperson of Ireland West Tourism welcomed the decision to refuse planning permission and asked : ‘ The question everybody must face up to is — do we want the short-term and dubious economic benefits of all mining in this area or the long-term and positive benefits of ongoing tourism and development ? ’
15 We 're trying to the horrors of central government diktat are all closing upon this city .
16 I think that 's what was great about the Scottish explosion , we were all taking from each other , we were all in each other 's studios and there was a real community .
17 I think that 's what was great about the Scottish explosion , we were all taking from each other , we were all in each other 's studios and there was a real community .
18 They 're all sitting round this table , like they 're going to start eating any moment .
19 At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end .
20 and they 're all waving at this helicopter and
21 His sisters , all working by this time , supported him through a course at the New York Fashion Institute of Technology .
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