Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Verification — if an applicant has successfully completed all the previous stages , now is the time to verify all the information . |
| 2 | She could think better in the darkness , and Gay 's letter had effectively banished all desire to sleep . |
| 3 | On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened . |
| 4 | Puzzled as to why the DEA and CIA would choose to do this through a front operation in Nicosia rather than through official channels , Coleman duly reported all this activity to Control , but the response was so muted he could only conclude that the DIA knew about it already . |
| 5 | Japan experienced a brief period of European contact in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , but in 1639 the government of Japan , the Tokugawa ( Edo ) Bakufu , effectively severed all contact with the West . |
| 6 | OF the many delightful quotations in Peter Robertson 's book , the one I like best tells us that ‘ in creating the Universe God perversely located all the most interesting regions of our galaxy in the southern hemisphere but all the astronomers in the north ’ . |
| 7 | One suspects that Manzoni would have rather enjoyed all the fuss and obfuscation . |
| 8 | Of them one is now mad , one is now dead and the other has since forgotten all about it . |
| 9 | In the morning he would go to the embassy , fall on his knees before her , beg her to return , to forgive him — anything — because he loved her , and love , if it were true , not only conquered all , but accepted all — ‘ Love is not love , Which alters when it alteration finds , ’ Shakespeare had said in his greatest sonnet , and he had discovered that for himself — but too late , too late . |
| 10 | I had , naturally heard all about her , but deep , deep down inside I missed my granny . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is one of the most highly prized all Chinese medicines . |
| 12 | Leviticus was passing police headquarters in Johannesburg one day , walking along the pavement after a shopping expedition , when a crazed , homicidal black threw himself , unconscious , from the top storey and apparently ripped all his fingernails out on the way down . |
| 13 | The women not only carried all the possessions they did n't want to risk losing in large baskets on their heads but also had to control their children and often had to sling them over their backs as they were too weak to walk themselves . |
| 14 | In its preoccupation with textuality , poststructuralism had apparently forgotten all about it . |
| 15 | Socially the definitions were not so clear , though the ‘ middle class ’ obviously included all the above groups , provided they were wealthy and established enough : businessmen , property-owners , liberal professions and the upper echelons of administration , which were , of course , numerically quite a small group outside the capital cities . |
| 16 | GAA : Micheal McGeary sets the scene for today 's eagerly awaited All Ireland hurling final between Galway and Kilkenny at Croke Park , Dublin |
| 17 | GAA : Micheal McGeary sets the scene for today 's eagerly awaited All Ireland hurling final between Galway and Kilkenny at Croke Park , Dublin |
| 18 | I 've been so chilled all day , made myself cup after cup of coffee and tea , and I 've run out . |
| 19 | Ideally , she knew , Brian should have been the recipient of all this intellectual and spiritual outpouring , but he was not interested , and her therapist , who should have been the other option , merely picked all the meat off her perceptions and left her with a meaningless pile of bones . |
| 20 | So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have |
| 21 | A few words of mine addressed to local people who were raising money to sink a well in their remote village had apparently made all the difference , I was later told . |
| 22 | Bel Shanaar , a seaman of wondrous skill , personally visited all the new colonies and even ventured to Karaz-a-Karak in the World 's Edge Mountains to swear the Oath of Friendship with the Dwarf kings . |
| 23 | Yes , we 've all seen all the reports — distributed open systems end up costing downsizers more money than the mainframe ever did , that there are many applications that can be handled only by the mainframe , that the mainframe has a bright future if only IBM Corp can get over its present problems . |
| 24 | Sochaux trainer Sylvester Takac admitted : ‘ We have n't been so outplayed all season . |
| 25 | ‘ Better get started , though ; we 've only got all night . ’ |
| 26 | I mean would you like to , I mean dad works from home does n't he , he has link ups with London but he 's basically got all his equipment at home . |
| 27 | Then the Yeti suddenly produced all these blues — speed , amphetamine , call it what you like . |
| 28 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 29 | They had apparently exhausted all the games that a four-year-old could invent , and they were shivering in the wind as they considered exploring the world on the other side of the road . |
| 30 | Candice apparently spent all |