Example sentences of "all [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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31 Vague information was worse than none at all as far as we were concerned , as we were obliged to do something about it , however hopeless it might seem .
32 I made a lot of mistakes as any young person does , but I never made the mistake of thinking I knew it all as far as the Africans were concerned . "
33 There was little chance of being on his side at all as far as Maggie was concerned .
34 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 .
35 Er they had them all back like when the pits was nationalized , all these people who 'd been sacked you know got back on .
36 He said : ‘ We 're all back together and things can only get better if we start winning again . ’
37 It was a bitter summary of their unhappy affair , but compunction ensued , because it was n't Luke 's fault that he could n't love her , even if he had no right to despise her , so she added neutrally , ‘ There 's a Chinese tea-house or tea-garden — I 'm not sure what it 's really called — not far from here that intrigues me , and I 've been wanting to go and find out what it 's all about ever since I first passed it .
38 they 're all really like when I , I did n't have a travel card , they all started going just cos I did n't have a travel card .
39 I had to sort them all out again so you can see what he got up there .
40 Well I tried to tidy it up before we went to school and they were flinging it all out again and there just was n't time !
41 ‘ Yes , ’ said O'Rourke , ‘ he was going to sort it all out properly when he got back to England .
42 Well after you discharged the ship cos all the blood was there and erm they used to have to wash them holds all out then and this bacon was put on open lorries and taken to London , put in the refrigerator .
43 They are all now less than one inch in height .
44 Conventional wars have traditionally been very lengthy affairs : the American Civil War and both World Wars were all far longer than expected ; all going on for at least a year .
45 They are one in nine hundred similar food outlets in Cotswold District we deal with them all even handedly but where there are problems we have a statutory responsibility to deal with them
46 The hotel has a gorgeous pool , glassed all around so that bathers can watch the peaks turning pink in the evening sun .
47 His life is , somehow he 's managed to bring it all around so that everything is perfect .
48 he 's fenced all around there and then he 's had this bloke to make amendments and then rows of
49 an average size er well it was all there right and it was all tiled right , very plain , yellow and black was n't it ?
50 Erm , I do n't think it 'll ever take off actu , actually , because er you 've got all the traffic all there already and if you 've got say , say you have got Hibs and Hearts you got all the traffic going out there at the same time and it 's gon na be chock-a-block !
51 Do you think they 're all there then or are they all in at school ?
52 Yeah well b well what I 'm trying to say and I ca n't emphasise it too strongly is that I do n't want anybody going round like writing another stupid letter to somebody saying that erm you know the reason we 're inundated that it has n't been advertised properly cos I tell you what it 'll come back right in our faces cos it 's our bloody fault Well that 's right well we know that I mean I told them all I told them all quite clearly when I was up in Glasgow that they 'd be quiet for at least a month because p it 'll take time to filter through .
53 I like what you print about me — and am amused and as usual do n't understand what it is all about even if you do say I am intellectual …
54 they bloody changed it all about so that the , O , little Opel , was a Vauxhall Nova !
55 Anyway , that 's all neither here nor there …
56 Now the problem comes of course , well that 's all very well but how do you define what is a reasonable time ?
57 That 's all very well but the hospital have n't written to me yet , so
58 Well , that 's all very well but there is one other I would like to add to the list and put it near the top — Downpatrick , who have been battling on their own for years , and who still manage to attract huge crowds as they showed last Monday .
59 Yes , but that 's all very well but , bout , but er
60 but Geoffrey says it , cos I says you got ta hit back you got ta do it , he says yes its all very well but its not just Stuart , its been Blankley , Da , Ja , erm Daniel its a load of them and they all get together its this Daniel bloke , bash his head in , I would really , I wish somebody I 'll bloody threaten him , I really do you know your big mates , bloody , he 's got no older brothers , I mean all your bloody six formers , I 'm sure they could frighten the little twat
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