Example sentences of "all the [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Of all the low points I suffered , one of the worst was when I was deprived of the chance of winning a third world cross country title because I was n't allowed to compete in 1988 , ’ explained the 26-year-old . |
2 | All the terrible things she had thought earlier rose up in Pat 's mind . |
3 | You love me — even after all the terrible things I 've done ? |
4 | ‘ Would you credit it — all these years I 've wondered how on earth you 've managed to avoid falling in love , given all the glorious hunks you had to choose from , just falling over themselves to be near you . |
5 | May I borrow some space in your magazine to say a big thank you for all the good wishes we have received in connection with the Presidency of the Baptist Union of Scotland ? |
6 | Remember all the good times you shared . ’ |
7 | ‘ Place needs all the good teachers it can get , from what I can gather , ’ said Major Tilney . |
8 | After another 13 years of getting the country into a mess the Tories tell us of all the good things they are going to do if re-elected . |
9 | ‘ All the good things he does are not always appreciated by outsiders and he 'll captain the team at Leeds . |
10 | Well , you can start by trying to live each day to the full ; cram in all the good things you can . |
11 | You look at your life , and it 's like all the good things you ever wanted are loaded up onto a train that you did n't run quite fast enough to catch . |
12 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
13 | In all the packed lunches she put together there was invariably an item included that only someone who had known her long ago , before the war , would have troubled to include . |
14 | We 're not saying that that er has been done er through all the cheap channels I do n't blame him probably do the same . |
15 | Some fat women are positive about their bodies and consider themselves powerful , beautiful , sexual , voluptuous and juicy , but many more of us internalise all the negative messages we receive about fat ( clumsy . |
16 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
17 | " The Meeting require that the Medical gentlemen who receive annual allowances from this Meeting do produce a distinct list of all the poor Patients they have attended during the course of the Year , and the medicines bestowed upon such Patients . " |
18 | The best help came from all the fellow humans we met on holiday . |
19 | Like all the best puzzlers it 's simple enough to get into without a struggle , so addictive you 'll always want ‘ just one more go ’ and , you guessed it , frustrating in the extreme ! |
20 | Former Giants coach Bill Parcells , commentating on the game , said : ‘ In deference to all the great players I have coached , I would have to say Lawrence Taylor is the greatest of them all . |
21 | The way people talk and talk about tachism and cubism and this ism and that ism and all the long words they use — great smeary clots of words and phrases . |
22 | Rather than explore all the possible pathways we need some method of ordering the search . |
23 | Despite all the new experiences she was going through , the thought of Rossmayne never left her . |
24 | And all the new ones I 've brought out . |
25 | Utah , in particular , needs all the new employers it can find . |
26 | The seal wanted to race south and burn off all her blubber , but she knew the penguin was scared , so she swam in lazy circles around the ice raft , singing and talking and giving the penguin names for all the new birds they saw , birds too canny to fly as far north as the Pole for fear of freezing . |
27 | And , on top of that , all the new friends I made at the grammar lived out West , in Greenford or Ealing . |
28 | No regrets : Sir Patrick has no regrets , he says , about all the new commitments he has taken on , and only one tiny regret about his tenure as head of the Diplomatic Service . |
29 | All the other networks we see , I think the networks we 've seen not many of them are slow in learning . |
30 | if I can comment on that Chairman , the erm , the Authority asked for thirty for next month , along with all the other authorities I think in the country , asked for an improvement in the , in the policing the country , and I think people that live in , in Shropshire , and the people that live in other er , parts of the country as well , would have welcomed the increase in the police force this year , but the government decided not to do that . |