Example sentences of "[prep] all [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where yer gon na get the money fer all this ? |
| 2 | He patted the bulge under his armpit as he continued , ‘ Me , I don ’ go in fer all this kung-fu stuff . |
| 3 | The standard formulation of the proper objective of management in the economics literature is that managers should seek to maximise the value of the firm , that is , the value of the residual after all fixed claims , such as those of the providers of loan finance and of employees , have been met . |
| 4 | It may of course turn out that there are after all good independent reasons for respecting the intuitive judgements which come from long experience . |
| 5 | He had known nothing of her plans , he did not know now what to expect , why this confining door should ever have been opened now , at this end of the day , after all permitted visits were over . |
| 6 | On being asked if it would not have been appropriate to let the McArdles continue their journey on a largely empty train which after all permitted APEX tickets the spokesman said : ‘ Oh no . |
| 7 | Leaving was after all easy . |
| 8 | This might be integrated with lower level processing , or after all lower level processing has been performed on the entire utterance . |
| 9 | One such experiment saw three reverse dies make 116 , 1490 and 7786 coins before breaking ; the obverse die was still usable after all 9392 . |
| 10 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 11 | The Council then was not quite a ‘ cross-section ’ of Athenians , but contained disproportionately many rich , determined politicians ; and lobbies , political dynasties or mafias could perpetuate themselves over the years despite the restrictions on re-election ( so the contrast with , for example , the Roman Senate is not after all total ) . |
| 12 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 13 | A simple 3/4in board is an anticlimax after all that architecture , and would ask ‘ Why the fuss ? ’ |
| 14 | The beer should cheer Santa up after all that milk . |
| 15 | ‘ You never had any Yorkshire pudding to line your stomach after all that booze . ’ |
| 16 | No longer revolutionaries , no longer a just cause — no longer , after all that , a cause at all . |
| 17 | It suffered so brutally from war and killing that even after a second time around , in ‘ 39 , after the havoc of Korea , the cut and thrust of Malaysia and Aden , the carnage of the Falklands and the bizarre media-encouraged sand-deaths in the Gulf — even after all that , the terrible word ‘ Gallipoli ’ is burned deep into the very fibre of every soul who was born in Bury , or who had family there . |
| 18 | After all that , there 's no better way to wind down than in the Club 's sauna and let the aches and pains flow away . |
| 19 | After all that , she 'd been just ‘ Madam ’ for a while , which might have indicated that she was getting older or grander , except that she always looked just the same , never any older . |
| 20 | And after all that effort they chose the most obvious candidate — a man with experience of television and the BBC — James Wilkinson . |
| 21 | After all that trouble , it really was a shame the end product was such utter rubbish . |
| 22 | After all that , the final part is an anticlimax , just a simple up-scroller . |
| 23 | ‘ But , like it or not , we were there and involved in it , and looking back the amazing thing for me is I 'm sitting here , breathing , after all that . |
| 24 | Yes , you could make music on one but that would be sacrilegious considering all the other exciting possibilities that it has to offer : eg. killing fascists ( Woody Guthrie ) , saying sorry ( Billy Bragg ) , as a firelighter ( Jimi Hendrix ) , for clubbing amplifiers senseless ( Pete Townshend ) , for levelling stage floorboards ( Ritchie Blackmore ) , as a mini-TV stand ( Billy Gibbons ) , to stimulate groupies ( Steve Vai ) , to cream yourself ( Hendrix again , that infamous Tokai advert or even that sad figure in the current Trantec Systems advert ) , as a shop sign ( Original Flying Vee ) , as a cricket bat ( Ian Botham with the Staccato magnesium bass ) , as a baseball bat ( Steinberger XL ) , you could use one to kill her mama ( like Frank and Dweezil ) and , if you are still bored after all that , you could electrocute yourself with it through your dangerously hot-rodded stack . |
| 25 | After all that , it was empty . |
| 26 | If we could n't get our act together after all that , then we were never going to . |
| 27 | Nut roasts can be a tasty change after all that turkey , and the natural oils make for moist cakes . |
| 28 | There was no need for a gong in their household , Lilly Foley said that Holy Mother Church looked after all that for them . |
| 29 | Not going to put up with that , I was n't , not after all that service . |
| 30 | After all that , remember one thing : the faster you can run , the more likely you are to escape . |