Example sentences of "it [verb] all [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When allocating time for the garter carriage , first decide whether it is possible to leave it knitting all night . |
| 2 | ‘ It sleeps all day and most of the night . ’ |
| 3 | This treaty empowered France to exercise certain sovereign powers on behalf of Morocco , provided it respected all treaty obligations to which Morocco had been subject before the formation of the Protectorate . |
| 4 | It is a strong , resilient , twisted rope to which the baby is attached in the womb , and through which it receives all nourishment until birth , when the cord is severed . |
| 5 | Additionally , it read all cable traffic entering and leaving Britain . |
| 6 | It incorporates all cargo activities in relation to airlines , handling agents , customs brokers , freight forwarding agents and express transport operators . |
| 7 | Although it covers all knowledge , it has been designed to apply specifically to collections in school libraries . |
| 8 | It has all party support and has reached Report Stage . |
| 9 | It sucked all warmth and courage from his body , leaving him chilled to the bone and fearful of even the smallest movement in the big house . |
| 10 | It was a striking scene : Ramprakash , facing ‘ a pair ’ — or , worse , four ducks in a row — the sky darkening , time running out ( would it rain all day tomorrow , the final day ? ) , |
| 11 | The word ‘ sweet ’ is used so often throughout the scene that it loses all worth , in the same way that a Chaucerian epithet such as ‘ fresshe ’ comes to mean almost the opposite when continually applied to January 's wife May in The Merchant 's Tale . |
| 12 | ‘ I had a friend who used to say that if you burned a candle in your window and it burned all night , then the world would n't end while you were sleeping . ’ |
| 13 | It fills all space , penetrating and permeating everything . |
| 14 | It surveyed all Member States , and recorded that : |
| 15 | Rotten weather ; it rained all night , but in the opening minutes , the Swindon players ran hard and challenged for everything . |
| 16 | It rained all day and they played out in the mud and the parents were n't very pleased with me . |
| 17 | trying to make it balance all afternoon so I had to start it yesterday to make it balance . |
| 18 | that up of a night and he has it going all night |
| 19 | Hegel 's Idealism is ‘ absolute ’ in that it sees all reality as gathered up in the all-encompassing , impersonal Mind which is God . |
| 20 | It overrides all conception , all preconceived ideas of what you think you want or need . |
| 21 | Genius , as it disdains all assistance , so it defies all obstacles . |
| 22 | The regent has said , even if it takes all day , we are not to appear at the royal palace or the Savoy until we have something more to tell him ! ’ |
| 23 | and they 'll be here half an hour or three quarters of an hour , he smoked four cigarettes , now it takes all day and all night to get rid of them fumes of his cigarettes |
| 24 | The rise in water level is due to the melting of snow and ice in the Andes — it rails all year round over the rain forest , half of the moisture being recycled , due to evaporation from the surface of the water and moisture given off by plants ( transpiration ) , with an increase in rainfall in late February , March and April and the more than normal rainy season ( Monsoon ) . |
| 25 | It rains all day . |
| 26 | It rains all evening — knives and forks . |
| 27 | In the interval between night and day , when it appears all colour may have been leached from the world in the blood wedding of sea and sky the night before , the men in Tiguary 's warrior band crept softly towards the English compound , some picking their way in the sulphurous stream , others moving in single file along the banks . |
| 28 | It covered all land and air forces , but not paramilitary forces , on which the treaty framework provided only for an exchange of views to take place . |
| 29 | It seems all part of life 's colourful plan that deer-watchers , like every other group of people pursuing a common goal , secure their elitism by the use of jargon . |
| 30 | We continued with our three-man tent , a Phoenix Phor-3 , and I must say , the extra space was much appreciated on several occasions , not least on 6 August when it snowed all day and I thrashed Pete at cards . |