Example sentences of "in [prep] all [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups went in for all kinds of sponsored walks , knit-ins , beard-shavings , and even silence . |
| 2 | Just say the word and we 'll come in with all guns blazing . ’ |
| 3 | If Candy realised the game Adam was playing , she would go storming in with all guns blazing , never stopping to think of the possible consequences , all her protective instincts roused in defence of her best friend . |
| 4 | But the first thing she had to do was suss out the lie of the land — there was no point in going charging in with all guns blazing . |
| 5 | But Elsie Birdsall and Lavinia Thwaites kept coming in with all kinds of things to try and get me going — home-made soups , arrowroot , custards — and finally I began to mend a little . |
| 6 | There were some forty of them , moving in from all directions , in gangs of no more than three or four . |
| 7 | Small flocks coming in from all directions joined the first arrivals until many thousands were stretched out in long parallel black lines . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , according to the Annual Register , petitions against the suspension of cash payments came in from all corners . |
| 9 | Both these men became good friends of mine and I frequently visited their homes to deliver large sacks of fan-mail which came in from all parts of the country and the northern U.S.A. |
| 10 | J. D. Hooker collected plants on expeditions to the southern polar regions and to the Himalayas , and soon plants ( in Wardian cases ) were flooding in from all parts of the world . |
| 11 | We opened up the parish hall to the wounded and dead which were brought in from all parts of the village . |
| 12 | We are struggling for a terminal at which trains can come in from all parts of the country , at which there can be an interchange for the continent and at which people can move on relatively quickly . |
| 13 | For years he was a member of the Saturday sub editorial staff processing the comprehensive sports copy flowing in from all parts of the world for Ireland Saturday Night , a newspaper for which he had a deep affection . |
| 14 | The focal point of the town centre is the church , with old buildings threaded by narrow alleyways hemming in from all sides . |
| 15 | It seemed to be seeping in from all sides , but how ? |
| 16 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 17 | Offers of help have been pouring in from all quarters , with the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll putting her conservation department at the ready to assist , and the Secretary of State for National Heritage , Peter Brooke , conceded that his department would be responsible for financing the repair bill . |
| 18 | He gets all over the pitch , and I could see him fitting in in all kinds of areas , he used to be good for Spurs even when the defence came under pressure , and he 'd tackle back , becoming the ball winner . |
| 19 | When that happened , he could imagine the pines closing in on all sides , sealing the locomotive and the carriages in a green tomb ; invisible even from the air . |
| 20 | Turning on Mungo , Mr Cottle paused to blow his nose , a signal for the trees to edge in on all sides , shutting out the sky . |
| 21 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 22 | Then it became darker , the trees denser , thicker , hemming them in on all sides as Thomas guided their horses along some secret path known only to him . |
| 23 | A minute later Sabrina swung the Renault into a narrow alleyway beside the house and emerged into a cobbled courtyard closed in on all sides by faded white walls , the paint peeling off in unsightly flakes to reveal greyish plaster underneath . |
| 24 | But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it . |
| 25 | With this kind of work in mind , I obtained permission from the headteacher and the governors to sit in on all appointments that occurred in Bishop McGregor School during my fieldwork between 1983 and 1985 . |
| 26 | Shifts split up the family so that men would be coming in at all hours of the day , waiting for the bath-tin and the water and a woman to wash their backs . |
| 27 | This was due to the hard work put in at all levels and in all parts of the country by the Wimpey Plant and Transport team . |
| 28 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |