Example sentences of "all about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then the market place accommodated seven annual fairs ( three for horses and four for cattle , cheese , cloth and leather ) in addition to the weekly Saturday market , and all about the central area the full variety of shops , inns , businesses and workshops that one associates with a market town were to be found . |
| 2 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 3 | On Sunday I put some sprouts on , right and doing summat , I forgot all about the bloody things ! |
| 4 | Perhaps the strangest think of all about the garotting panic of 1862 was that in the haste to describe the awful contours of the ‘ new ’ crime , the equally ‘ unprecedented ’ alarms of 1856 were almost entirely forgotten , although the same complaints and accusations had been well rehearsed . |
| 5 | She had just come from London and she told us all about the great spirit of British resistance to the Nazi air attacks . |
| 6 | So we might modify our question , and ask whether the study of cave life has told us anything at all about the great questions of evolution and ecology . |
| 7 | Let's do them the other way round let's talk first of all about the visual aids . |
| 8 | Okay , so our modern view then is that evolution is all about the quantitative reproductive success of individuals and in fact of individual genes . |
| 9 | Some are concentrating so much on balancing that they forget all about the key words . |
| 10 | GHI knows all about the tricky business of matching wine to food — sometimes at tastings we line up as many as 12 wines alongside three courses , and the results can be surprising . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I 've had a very curious dream ! ’ said Alice , and she told her sister all about the strange adventures in her wonderful dream . |
| 12 | I expect she 'll tell me all about the new job then . |
| 13 | She needed to know that you loved her ; so you told her all about the new drugs she could get from the Arcturans , or the huge advances in radiation treatment since rho mesons had been discovered . |
| 14 | And he has forgotten all about the Lost Boys and how to fly , until his own children are kidnapped by his old adversary Captain Hook . |
| 15 | The Labour Party in Haringey was terrified of the electoral implications of splits in the black communities , and made no statement at all about the increasing intimidation experienced by black lesbians and gays in this period . |
| 16 | I knew all about the technical hazards , the need to remain seemingly unperturbed when the running order had to be changed at the last second , the importance of acquiring a warm , friendly rapport with the viewer . |
| 17 | Finally , the ‘ intelligentsia ’ and scholarly circles — presumably attached to Leipzig University — in condemning Hess reportedly included some reproaches for Hitler for selecting such a ‘ mentally disturbed person as his possible successor ’ , though it was immediately added that most members of such circles were ‘ nevertheless convinced that the Führer no longer hears at all about the actual mood and situation within the Reich itself and that most things are kept from him ’ . |
| 18 | he had hard all about the long sorties that were carried out by the Washingtons , so he was quite chuffed that his trip was for only three hours . |
| 19 | After a lifetime in politics he knows all about the rough and tumble of public life . |
| 20 | Maggie quickly brought her attention back to the cross-eyed girl and forgot all about the young man . |
| 21 | Primed by Stephanie 's reaction , she had the presence of mind to put on an impressive pretence of knowing all about the recent ‘ mystery ’ consignment . |
| 22 | Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives . |
| 23 | But Hill is a fighter , a man who knows all about the inner trauma of rejection and who overcame the stigma of being stripped of the England captaincy and banned . |
| 24 | He left behind him a police force outraged by his treachery and a judicial establishment unable to believe that , for the first time , a South African policeman was prepared to tell all about the dirty tricks departments , the hit squads , the assassination detachments and the enormous , shabby , meritorious , violent conspiracy so interwoven into the blood and guts of the South African security services that its agents can no longer tell the difference between criminal pursuits and active police work . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll tell you all about the secret garden , ’ whispered Mary . |
| 26 | I sat down in Dad 's chair and told him all about the old lady and her brother , or at least what I knew , which was n't much . |
| 27 | They know all about the different types of mortgages and can offer impartial advice . |
| 28 | It 's all about the American mutiny of two years ago , written by Dan Topolski , who was chief coach then . |
| 29 | Fans of Yamaha 's dynamic vector synthesis will already know all about the huge creative potential of combining AWM and FM sound generation under vector control . |
| 30 | In her horror , Clarissa forgot all about the head waiter and the brandy . |