Example sentences of "to cap it all " in BNC.
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1 | And to cap it all , the bland sleazy boredom of it all . |
2 | And to cap it all off , when she was tied-up she could n't run backwards , so she lay down instead ! |
3 | And to cap it all , in my front garden , a taxus that has already outgirthed Sir Cyril Smith was making a takeover bid for my car runway , so that friends would smilingly open their drivers ' doors only to get a mouthful of evergreen . |
4 | To cap it all , the Tories made two gains , Aberdeen South from Labour , and Kincardine and Deeside , forfeited to the Liberal Democrats last November . |
5 | To cap it all … |
6 | To cap it all , there would be no need to change his underpants . |
7 | To cap it all , the sleeve reports that the Mussorgsky occupies track one , and the Rimsky tracks two and three : in reality Sheherazade gets tracks one and two , while track three is the one allocated to Pictures ! |
8 | To cap it all TER has the richer and more atmospheric sound . |
9 | And to cap it all , the Brahms and Beethoven so beloved of the buffs was going through amp stages by the score , before and during transmission . |
10 | To cap it all , Kavner 's stage act is one of the most deeply unfunny routines I have ever heard . |
11 | As well as an initial charge of up to 6% of your investment , there are annual charges — anything between 0.5% and 2% ; dealing charges ; withdrawal and transfer charges ; and , to cap it all , VAT . |
12 | To cap it all . |
13 | To cap it all , cable-car access from the other side would guarantee tea at the top and a tourist audience — what more was needed ? |
14 | And to cap it all you let a wanted man make good his escape . ’ |
15 | And , to cap it all , Wimbledon won the Cup . |
16 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
17 | To cap it all , the administration has been shown to be not just partisan , not just radical in some of its instincts , but alarmingly accident-prone . |
18 | Finally , to cap it all , in August Iraq invaded Kuwait , precipitating one of the longest runs of lead-stories in decades . |
19 | To cap it all , the Devil has taken over the church and sits impaled on the spire with a long snaky whip sorting out anyone who 's left . |
20 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
21 | And — to cap it all — there is no source of drinking water on the island — unless you are clever enough to find some way of catching and storing rain when it falls , which it does almost every day . |
22 | To cap it all , we then made a forced passage back to Oban in a force eight south west gale as Sam wanted to get back to Southampton in time for a wedding . |
23 | Every other group produces more sophisticated results than yours , your own results seem to vanish in the general feedback , and to cap it all she then shows you work which is more sophisticated than any of yours , probably containing a result which is on the A level further mathematics syllabus , and declares that it is work from mixed-ability 13 year olds ! |
24 | To cap it all , CND are organising a massive Peace Rally in Trafalgar Square on the second Sunday in July . |
25 | And to cap it all she could feel the ominous beginnings of a thundering headache . |
26 | Best of all though , is the number of fine etched and engraved Life studies and to cap it all the two post-Cubist paintings of the Nude . |
27 | I think it is accepted that Gray failed to realise how poor the team was and then , to cap it all , with the worst defensive record in the League , he proceeded to spend £100,000 on rather an ordinary centre forward . |
28 | But it was to cap it all her temp started today |
29 | maybe she 's got a bug or something , that 's what I had a few weeks ago remember , mm , mm , oh and then to cap it all |
30 | Erm , and I mean , I I was just cringing after that , hearing all these , minor horror stories coming coming out , and then to cap it all , one little girl put her hand up and said erm , my daddy was stopped by the police once for not wearing his seat-belt . |