Example sentences of "all [adj] things [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , we went through these stories , and tried to link all different things they go under , got attitudes , weight , sex , exploitation , memories , mother and child relationships , old fashioned settings , aspirations , working women , ageism , husband and wife , loneliness , change , working in middle upper classes , racism and grief , and then , we started again , through the stories giving numbers , and putting them under the headings we thought they came under , but the thing is , we 've got a lot of them under all , well not all the headings , but a couple of the headings .
2 I 've got all different things I do n't like these earphones they hurt my ears .
3 It 's like all these things they say when you go to the vet and that .
4 But with all these things I prepared and waited , prepared and waited until I had the orchestra really in hand .
5 Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms
6 Er you say , well you know alright there are all these things I could do but erm er what , where do I think I re really want to work ?
7 All these things I can do , to prevent death .
8 And , a all these things I thought were so difficult !
9 In all these things you have to wait ten or fifteen years .
10 All these things you can do by yourself , but at the same time you will be making some sort of social contact .
11 You see that 's what I 'm trying to do because you 're getting older now , you can remember all these things you can remember all these things What 's the question there ?
12 All these things you have done .
13 You know , and I mean we we work , you know , it 's like er I mean I have to pay full poll tax and all these type of things too , even though my husband 's on a sort of very er basic sort of wage , and I pay all these things you know .
14 ‘ Who do you think might be responsible for all these things you ca n't explain ?
15 Like all these things you have to look at the bright side .
16 It was a tray , a black plastic garden seed tray that we call a finds tray , and all then things he was finding he was putting them in there .
17 And she was bound to confess that the Larks had always made her nervous , that she had always dreaded her visits to their crumbling , chaotic , downright shabby ancestral home , with dogs leaping out at one from every chair and all those things they kept on shooting — pheasant , partridge , grouse , poor little scrawny things — hanging up to rot simply everywhere .
18 THE RALLY started on Sunday , 2 February at 10 am and the freezing cold morning saw many last-minute checks by various crews on all those things they had forgotten or already checked three times .
19 I felt a little shy : all those things we had written — would I be able to translate them into physical action , into real , spoken words ?
20 ‘ Like we said before , all those things we said before ? ’
21 Then you can collect up your belongings , all those things you would wish to have with you at the Hall — you will have your own bedchamber remember — and then , when you are ready , you can bolt the door and the windows and return here in the wagon . ’
22 It 's still all those things you said . ’
23 And you 've got hair that falls in your face and you sort of , and all those things you 've got to learn to cope with because if you 're worried about what you 're doing with your hands , or your feet , or your hair , then you ca n't then concentrate on putting over your information effectively .
24 You 'll know all those things you said were untrue .
25 And all those things I said , I was just guessing really .
26 All those things I 've said to you .
27 She did n't want to remain here , to listen to all those things she had known already for herself .
28 Until , in the end , Carrie began to think she must have made it all up , that she had just dreamed all those things he had said .
29 Chapter 9 , ‘ Living Language ’ , points out that this aural memory-bank of speech and language continues to grow , and like all growing things it needs nourishing .
30 He had tried all other things he knew .
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