Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] every " in BNC.
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| 1 | A city ‘ where nothing is wasted , costly and luxurious city though it be , but where wonderful human ants creep out of holes , and pick up every scrap ’ , OMF i 12 . |
| 2 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 3 | They 've used all their timber stores and cut up every bucket and table and door to make all those fighting platforms and towers , so they can hardly have plugs for their cannon , and they wo n't have any fuel except dung . |
| 4 | She wandered back to the dressing-table and stood fiddling and picking over every little object on it . |
| 5 | Have you been trawling the sales and picking up every urn and tub that caught your fancy ? |
| 6 | When he finally arrived in Calcutta he was not of course allowed to stay with us at the Sisters , which puzzled you children , but he stayed with the Oxford Mission Fathers and came over every day to see us , until a kindly businessman heard about us and took us along to his palatial house until we could decide what next to do . |
| 7 | She fought him , desperately , clawing and pummelling at him and shrieking out every obscenity she knew . |
| 8 | The spoiler 's axe their shade devours , And cuts down every tree . |
| 9 | She seemed to beam with happiness in his presence and hang on every word he said . |
| 10 | He wanted to hold him safe from every profaning touch , and fend off every malignant thought from him . |
| 11 | Get drunk and pass out every night ? ’ |
| 12 | They crawled from under the table and knocked over every candle they could see . |
| 13 | Take plenty of time to work out your list and jot down every single thing you can think of . |
| 14 | But she cherished them , and hung on every word that Tilly uttered . |
| 15 | He ca n't pay the television licence and tosses up every week between washing powder , toothpaste or soap : " I can only afford one at a time — personal hygiene is an expensive item . " |
| 16 | The phrasing got so slow and emphatic that you knew that she wanted you to listen to and weigh up every single word ; but you could n't tell if each word was freighted with anger , or bitterness , or joy ; it just came out with great , quiet force , and you had to work out its tone for yourself . |
| 17 | If you were to take a pencil and cross out every verse in the New Testament which refers to the resurrection or to the idea that Jesus Christ is alive , you would not have much of the New Testament left . |
| 18 | The real surprise , though , was lot 64 ( est. $10–15,000 ) a somewhat overpowering Tiffany silverplated tilt-top table , made for the World 's Columbian Exposition , and decorated over every square inch with ferns and flowers . |
| 19 | With the morning light slanting in here , and showing up every mote of dust and grain of wood-powder , the individual nodules of that fingertip showed even to the naked eye . |
| 20 | Later , Mr Roberts added : ‘ Employing only strictly contemporary documents and some extraordinarily painstaking historical scholarship , Charmley has disinterred and raked over every stratum of the Churchill myth . ’ |
| 21 | A strange light , lurid but colourless , heralded the onset of the storm and picked out every detail with the brittle sharpness of death . |
| 22 | She has painstakingly cooked , boned and chopped up every morsel for her fusspot . |