Example sentences of "all [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All rather like a battlefield . ’ |
| 2 | There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood . |
| 3 | But what would happen to Twoflower , all alone in a city where even the cockroaches had an unerring instinct for gold ? |
| 4 | Then perhaps you 'll be happy — all alone in a kingdom of ice . ’ |
| 5 | He gathered them all together with a quick look round . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Plod could herd them all together into a group , march them to and from their destinations , depriving them along the way of all alcohol ( not to mention all civil rights ) and beat the living daylights out of any who still insisted on stepping out of line . |
| 8 | I 'd like to play a nice quiet game , all together beside a warm fire . ’ |
| 9 | And , yes , there are a couple of lines around the eyes , and a grey hair or twenty ( at least they 're all together in a neat bunch , not lurking about all over the place ) and the neck does n't look too good in some , particularly unflattering , lights , but then I do n't suppose yours would , either . |
| 10 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're all together in a gigantic conspiracy to dominate the world ! ’ |
| 12 | Tossing it all together in a heap in a pan , and then hoping for the best , would produce another totally inedible meal . |
| 13 | But that 's all much of a muchness is n't it ? |
| 14 | All apparently at a cost of as little as £11,000 . |
| 15 | It would be madness to throw it all away for a few moments of nerve-storming passion . |
| 16 | It was the best thing to be quiet and say nothing — to push it all away into a dark place like the cupboard under the stairs so it could be forgotten like an old raincoat or last summer 's shoes . |
| 17 | How else should a person look , while , in the course of a single ceremony , he kisses everything goodbye — just blows it all away in a prodigal storm of confetti and rice ? |
| 18 | It was all just like a pathetic fallacy . |
| 19 | My legs get all tingly after a bit on account of how I 'm sitting , but I do n't move . |
| 20 | MODEL Lisa Butcher got away from it all yesterday with a mystery man . |
| 21 | And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips . |
| 22 | And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips . |
| 23 | But the thing is we were all really I mean thing I 'd we 've all nearly in a state of undress anyway . |
| 24 | The cream stucco on the houses — the imposing pillared porches with their black-and-white tiled steps ; she felt as if she had seen it all before in a dream . |
| 25 | We can not afford to get them all here for a costume call . ’ |
| 26 | The Museum of British Road Transport at Coventry , the Patrick Collection , the National Motorcycle Museum near the NEC , and the huge Aerospace Museum at RAF Cosford are all well worth a visit . |
| 27 | The Springers have now decided to sell and do it all again on a plot not far away — but this time with an indoor pool for year-round use and half-doors so children can be kept within sight of the kitchen and gym . |
| 28 | Maria 's brilliant smile was for a particularly attentive television camera , but the dreams sparkling in her eyes were uncontrived , as pure delight and ambition triumphed over all else for a moment . |
| 29 | When at last we were all safely in a carriage , he would saunter off to buy a paper , and other people were coming in . |