Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three steps fixed from the start , he wrote : making the glass , showing the glass , and ending it all . |
| 2 | Fundamentally , it is about embarrassment and shame and keeping us all in our place . |
| 3 | The leaf-cutting ants of South America build vast underground nests and set off from them , day and night , in long columns to demolish trees , removing every shoot , leaf and stem , section by tiny section and transporting them all back to their underground chambers . |
| 4 | That night Capt. P.J. Mack 's destroyer flotilla sailed from Malta , catching the Italian vessels and sinking them all , for the loss of H.M.S. ‘ Mohawk ’ . |
| 5 | Morning chats introduce the options ; righting drill , tailchasing in Lasers , knotting with spinnakers , knitting with trapeze wires , tacking Hobie cats , and threading it all together with a local regatta . |
| 6 | After that came my Marx and Schweitzer phase but I started getting greedy and wanting them all rolled into one and then somebody told me that we 've got to learn to love ourselves , so I tried that but it seemed a bit selfish . |
| 7 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 8 | Am I deceiving myself and deceiving us all ? |
| 9 | He was talking faster and faster , pulling an accordion pleat of plastic cards from his pocket , folding and unfolding it , slipping each card past the robot 's swivelling eye and puffing them all back again before it could read any of them . |
| 10 | After deciding that oak would be best for the job , it was then to work , carefully measuring the arch and getting it all drawn up to scale . |
| 11 | All things being equal we could probably turn one of these things around , which is basically preparing all the literature , briefing the systems people and getting it all printed up and everything in about six weeks . |
| 12 | Given that their deposits are ‘ money ’ , there is an overwhelming case from an economic point of view for dwelling on their similarities ( and calling them all ‘ banks ’ ) rather than on their differences . |
| 13 | I think he 's trying to be sensible and doing it all wrong . ’ |
| 14 | If I start going in there and doing it all you 've got ta show how to . |
| 15 | er what people smoking and treating 'em all with these new chemicals and that 's what 's doing you the harm |
| 16 | Now that you have a vague idea what is going on , you could be forgiven for throwing up your hands in disgust and letting them all get on with it . |
| 17 | I ended up sitting by the lakeside and letting it all drift over me . ’ |
| 18 | How simple and shining it all had looked when she was young and mama was preaching democracy and she went one better with her faith in Fabian Socialism . |
| 19 | It helps people to appreciate mystery by not defining too easily and sewing it all up . |
| 20 | into a marquis and having it all laid on for |
| 21 | Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’ |
| 22 | On day one Viktor Ovoyaykov , a nuclear scientist from Leningrad , took us under his wing , giving us what we called ‘ chewing-gum wine ’ which is a thin sheet of chewy grape ( you will have to go there to try it ) and insisting we all skied with him and his family . |
| 23 | A crack on the pavement meant another night when her dad would come in roaring drunk and roaring them all in and out of bed all night to say the catechism . |
| 24 | The Mamur Zapt was in charge of law and order in Cairo and that meant keeping the city quiet and stopping them all from getting at each other 's throats . |
| 25 | Sitting back and taking it all in is another former hip hop dancer , Moet Lo , who lost his Wall Street messenger job when his firm discovered his penchant for the five-finger discount at Polo stores . |
| 26 | I mean things like unpacking the boxes and taking it all out of the erm cracker er paper or all that , you know just takes time . |
| 27 | And I I remember being eight , nine , ten , eleven years old , and knowing them all off by heart , |
| 28 | er , thinking of spending a lot of money behind the station and building the supermarket and ploughing it all up , that car park , and then putting the information centre in the old , old |
| 29 | Yeah , and rubbing it all down the window with my cardi . |
| 30 | And carrying them all the way to the |