Example sentences of "it [vb -s] all [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It sleeps all day and most of the night . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It incorporates all cargo activities in relation to airlines , handling agents , customs brokers , freight forwarding agents and express transport operators . |
| 4 | Although it covers all knowledge , it has been designed to apply specifically to collections in school libraries . |
| 5 | It has all party support and has reached Report Stage . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It fills all space , penetrating and permeating everything . |
| 8 | Hegel 's Idealism is ‘ absolute ’ in that it sees all reality as gathered up in the all-encompassing , impersonal Mind which is God . |
| 9 | It overrides all conception , all preconceived ideas of what you think you want or need . |
| 10 | Genius , as it disdains all assistance , so it defies all obstacles . |
| 11 | 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 ! ’ |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | It rains all day . |
| 15 | It rains all evening — knives and forks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But communism abolishes eternal truths , it abolishes all religion , and all morality , instead of constituting them on a new basis : it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience . ’ |
| 19 | It lasts all night . |
| 20 | So I would give her Penelope , she 's one of the moss , er it 's pink , it 's er repeat flowering , it flowers all season which some of the others do n't and a yellow one Graham Thomas I think would be my other choice . |