Example sentences of "all [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although not a Government publication , this book , first published in 1923 , achieved considerable popularity before the Second World War and has run to twelve editions , all revised by the original writer , the most recent being that of 1954 ; in England it was the main vehicle for the principles of Sir Truby King and his Mothercraft Training Society . |
| 2 | Rather like today 's optimistic prophets on the ‘ new age ’ , he foresaw ‘ an ideal society yet to be developed , which comprises all men ; all filled by the common striving for perfection ’ . |
| 3 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 4 | Yet once it sported a blacksmith 's , joiner 's and a public house , all situated in the main street — Town Street . |
| 5 | It 's rare to find the BBC TV Gardeners ' World team all gathered in the same garden , but our Chelsea garden 's Gold Medal deserved a special television get-together to celebrate with designers Faith and Geoffrey Whiten , who share their winning ideas with us on page 18 . |
| 6 | There were twelve or fifteen finished pictures , all painted in the same manner as the one on the easel , patterns of glowing colour , but the subjects ranged from harbour and river scenes to landscapes with figures . |
| 7 | Before long English , French , Danish and Basque whale-hunters had all joined in the lucrative trade . |
| 8 | The broader inference is that the MARID rocks , related metasomites , megacrysts and polymict xenoliths found at Kimberley all formed in the upper mantle beneath the Kaapvaal craton over a short interval coincident with kimberlite generation and eruption . |
| 9 | The hotel is several cosy lounges and bars , all furnished in the local style with lots of pine . |
| 10 | By the summer of 1419 all Normandy was his : the major walled towns of the duchy , Caen , Falaise , Cherbourg , and Rouen had all fallen to the English besiegers . |
| 11 | It was all intended for the best . |
| 12 | There are eighteen species of penguin worldwide , all confined to the southern hemisphere . |
| 13 | There is no additional fee or paperwork for this insurance cover , it is all included within the International Datapost price . |
| 14 | Many nurseries are adding species and Old varieties to their lists and you may well find shrub forms , ramblers and climbers all grouped under the one heading . |
| 15 | After ten minutes , Mick was asked for his passport and was then handed a sheaf of letters , all in the same size of envelope , all addressed in the same neat hand of his father . |
| 16 | It has also had 52 governments , mostly coalitions , since 1945 , all dominated by the Christian Democrats . |
| 17 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 18 | So there he was , all frozen in the hot sun , I began to realise things were really serious when I see them machine guns itching to smoke in the fuzz hand . |
| 19 | Anne Marriner , 23 , admitted attempting to obtain property by deception and two counts of criminal damage all committed on the same day during January . |
| 20 | They were not all written at the same time , or in that order : I had to keep struggling to write my own work as Dana 's poetic demands became more and more insistent . |
| 21 | Tonight we start a series on architectural follies around the region.A folly is a building with no special purpose … often built at the whim of a wealthy landowner.We begin by peering into a concrete grotto … and touring some mock medieval cloisters , all built in the 1930s by the man who invented reflective road signs . |
| 22 | These cells are classified into about 210 ( according to taste ) different kinds , all built by the same set of genes but with different members of the set of genes turned on in different kinds of cells . |
| 23 | The fact that human beings have quite a variation of abilities and shortcomings attests to the fact that we are not all twisted in the same areas . |
| 24 | We can all watch for the Labour block vote at the end of this debate as a matter of principle , I could never vote in support of the Labour whip . |
| 25 | First , all depends on the Social Democrats getting just enough votes to form a government , but only with Green help . |
| 26 | In short , all depends upon the precise nature of the public interest sought to be protected and this is not one of those cases — unlike , for example , Reg. v. Governor of Brixton Prison , Ex parte Osman [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 281 — where the extent to which the documents have entered the public domain will critically affect the question whether immunity from further disclosure should be held to survive . |
| 27 | We thank you all for the great success you have all made of the 1985 Appeal . |
| 28 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |
| 29 | It helps students to master the basic patterns of phonology and provides them with the training they need to handle English sounds , stress and intonation , and connected speech , all presented with the usual Headway clarity . |
| 30 | She mumbled beneath his mouth when his fingers pressed hard into her firm buttocks , and she felt a hot flame burn where his hand had rested , her mouth , her body , her mind all whirling with the incredible sensation that his unprovoked assault was arousing . |