Example sentences of "it [verb] all [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I said , she 's the same age as me , she said god , she looked much older than you I said yeah I know , I says it cheers you up doing surgery do n't it seeing all these people that look terrible for their age , so she says well I though she looked older than me , I says yes she does look older , I do n't have , I do n't know how old Sue is , I think she 's forty , I think she 's forty , but this woman she 's got long hair |
| 2 | It goes all watery . |
| 3 | And it goes all black then does n't it ? |
| 4 | Yeah but if you put it in the dark it goes all starry . |
| 5 | Because if you start messing your duvet up at night times it means that you do n't want to sleep underneath it cos it goes all scrunchy and horrible , and all the duvet bit comes out of the cover . |
| 6 | The bloody Hun-lovers were trying to blow this club up because it represents all that is best about England . ’ |
| 7 | Although the Spanish government is the largest open systems user in the country , with two thirds of its computer systems now running Unix , economic pressure has forced it to suspend all future internal developments and abandon its tax incentive schemes for firms migrating to Unix . |
| 8 | It smelled all wrong in these woods . |
| 9 | Amid demands that it replace all ethnic Albanian deputies , of whatever political leaning , the Serbian Assembly voted on July 5 to dissolve the Kosovo Assembly permanently and thereby dismiss the government , and to terminate the contracts of all Kosovo parliamentary officials , transferring the Kosovo body 's responsibilities permanently to the Serbian parliament . |
| 10 | In short it covers all those matters that slow-down the smooth flow of the plan . |
| 11 | One of the work 's main strengths is that it covers all social positions . |
| 12 | He 's got this red light , so it looks all cosy , and sometimes he uses a candle . |
| 13 | if you do them both white it looks all wrong |
| 14 | It looks all big and open . |
| 15 | It looks all lonely like with Marie 's bits and pieces gone . |
| 16 | It has all necessary powers to look again at the problem it has created and decide whether it is in the overall interest of the locality to have a commercial port . |
| 17 | every so often , they 've got these little card things well they shove them in and it clicks all these numbers up so I used to buy one token |
| 18 | How does it know all this stuff ? ’ said Angalo , suspiciously . |
| 19 | It joins all those islands . |
| 20 | I still chuckle when I think of that deadly , German secret weapon with its trunks , whiskers and puzzled expression and the panic it caused all those years ago . |
| 21 | It monitors all local and remote elements in a computer system , including attached devices such as printers , terminals , administrator consoles and communications links in addition to cost-system functions . |
| 22 | In one sense a later decision is more convenient , because it allows all useful information to be collated , and is more likely to lead to a considered expenditure of funds . |
| 23 | there 's two elements in relation to the air conditioning itself , er spreading viruses , and we take two preventative actions one of which is that we spray all the air conditioning ducts work quarterly with , what 's known , as a virucide and I relate that to the equivalent of sticking a a toilet block in the toilet , it kills all all known airborne germs sort of thing . |
| 24 | One paragraph on rainforest conservation , for example , could be quoted more widely — it says all that needs to be said in 15 eloquent lines . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ although , as she looked through the crack it did not seem all right at all ; in fact it seemed all wrong . |
| 26 | It seemed all wrong that I had horizontal loops across the face of the work . |
| 27 | But hearing that you were blind , I could n't ask , it seemed all wrong . |
| 28 | Has it got all those little little crystally ornaments ? |
| 29 | It rained all that night , but that did n't stop a visit to Aunt Marjorie 's at Wimbledon . |
| 30 | Nietzsche , the German philosopher , adduced his argument from classical concepts — ‘ This proves that there 's no such thing as God ’ — but when quantum mechanics came along , it threw all that out of the window . |