Example sentences of "all [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many look forward with uncertainty and some apprehension to joining a battalion , all display a supreme contentment and relief that the rigours of basic training have been mastered . |
| 2 | It was a brown room , like the shop and the passages , which were all painted a thick , dark brown . |
| 3 | that about twenty songs on the L P we 've got and I think they all sold a million |
| 4 | So they all got a good view as Ten-huc rasped something with a whiff of black mist , and Gharr whirled with teeth bared . |
| 5 | We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance . |
| 6 | We could not undress for a week in case of a submarine attack , and you all got a little cross , I remember . |
| 7 | all got a physical model . |
| 8 | Presently all make a valuable contribution but generally events are not planned in a co-ordinated way taking into account the work of other agencies . |
| 9 | So , long before you rush into the basic decoration and furnishings you must first of all make a proper plan of the room and its needs and then work out how best to spend what money you have . |
| 10 | On the other side of the wall they all experienced a different atmosphere . |
| 11 | Had not Reagan told North , when he called him after he was fired , that it would all make a great movie one day ? |
| 12 | In view of the late notification by the Sports Council advising that our grant for the current year would be out by £7000 the Society 's Steering Group felt we should all make a concerted effort to raise this amount so that all schemes and administration could continue as planned for 1988 . |
| 13 | It all made a horrible kind of sense , and he hoped that he was wrong . |
| 14 | They all made a jolly family . |
| 15 | Tosh McKinlay , who scored once and forced Taylor to concede an own goal , Gary Mackay and Derek Ferguson all made a creative contribution to an enjoyable match . |
| 16 | Subjects ranging from the ferries and Mersey tunnels to the Tall Ships Race and local tourist attractions are all given a lighthearted treatment . |
| 17 | The Cambridge Committee brought over at least seventy guaranteed children from Germany , mostly teenagers , who were all given a decent education . |
| 18 | We 're all seeing a great deal of concern about dioxins in tampons and nappies , but did you know that incinerators and leaded petrol are also major contributors towards the levels in our environment ? |
| 19 | It was painful for us all to see a delightful candle being progressively snuffed out by the royal system and an empty marriage . ’ |
| 20 | R. A. Butler , Sir Maurice Holmes , G. Thomson , R. H. Tawney , W. P. Alexander , W. Brockington — all shared a strong commitment to something each called equality of opportunity . |
| 21 | They all shared a big bedroom near the cheese room . |
| 22 | Men with widely differing occupations like the Collector of the King 's Customs at Plymouth , a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty , the Treasurer of St Bartholomew 's Hospital and a Chief Clerk of Session in Scotland all shared a common interest in the Gardeners Dictionary . |
| 23 | He was concerned here above all to paint a working landscape , not just a decorative one ; and the empty wain is fording the stream to collect more hay from the labourers in the distant field . |
| 24 | Tinned meat from 1860 , cheap refrigerated meat from New Zealand from 1880 , fish , packed in ice and moved rapidly by the new railway system ; all became a cheap commonplace of working-class diet . |
| 25 | It all became a little circus like . |
| 26 | Five areas — Derbyshire , Leicestershire , Cumbria , Powys and Wester Ross — all demonstrated a marked preference for afternoon meetings . |
| 27 | If it is possible at all to find a semantic common denominator for sentences containing auxiliary need , the best candidate would probably be " non-assertiveness " . |
| 28 | A good game of tennis , badminton , hockey , netball , or football , for instance , all involve a great deal of running over a prolonged period of time . |
| 29 | Beck , Clapton , Page , Moore and Hendrix all used a simple pentatonic minor and , by adding certain notes to colour the scale , created the dorian . |
| 30 | But first — as usual — we 're going to hear about Zac 's foreskin , Pop Will Eat Itself never flushing the toilet , drugs , ‘ stompers ’ , why smart drugs turn your piss dayglo green and why female pop journalists all want a good shagging . |