Example sentences of "and [verb] [v-ing] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 2 | A crewman in Samoa , which passed through the Sunda Straits shortly after the eruption , described seeing bodies and pumice stretching all the way to the horizon . |
| 3 | As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country . |
| 4 | Take advantage of this knowledge and enjoy trying all that is offered to you in your delicatessen — it really is an endless delight . |
| 5 | As well as the hundreds of demonstrations by artists and craftspeople covering all art forms , this year The Artist has helped organise a very much larger Materials and Techniques section where you will be able to try out art materials , ask questions and buy products from many of the UK 's leading art materials ' manufacturers . |
| 6 | The mathematics were simple : £10,000 would enable them to fatten up their piglets , sell them off in the autumn , clear their overdraft and continue preserving all the surviving Old Spot bloodlines . |
| 7 | But he was incensed ; he came alongside me and started making all sorts of threatening gestures . |
| 8 | You 've got to be open and keep communicating all the way through . ’ |
| 9 | Protect your body with your feet and forearms ; roll into his legs and smother his kicks , then pull him down and start unleashing all those close-in weapons mentioned earlier . |
| 10 | And fancy meeting all those television actors ! ’ |
| 11 | Also one would have to work out whether peasants were subsistence minded in that how that once they 'd achieved their subsistence was that all they would want or would they really want to sort of erm work harder and start sharing all their tools and implements in order to gain an even higher productivity . |
| 12 | Essentially , what she wants is for Berowne to discover what is serious in life , and to stop fooling all the time . |
| 13 | Cutting back on credit is absolutely essential to your financial well-being — and avoid keeping all your money in one place . |