Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] of all the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 2 | They must have got rid of all the junk they could find in their store-rooms . |
| 3 | Either you put some flesh on the bones of your idea and your plan really takes off , or you begin to think of all the reasons why it wo n't work after all . |
| 4 | We got rid of all the rubbish , put it in and started packing and erm about five minutes later the man from next door came out . |
| 5 | I mean a lot of the you know when we start getting rid of all the rubbish down that side ? |
| 6 | ‘ People seem to think we are getting rid of all the books but the only ones we have done away with are those which had been hidden away unused for many years . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm glad I 'm getting rid of all the Christmas remnants . |
| 8 | The next stop gets rid of all the glass which is then collected by Pilkingtons for melt-down and re-use . |
| 9 | Get rid of all the clutter , but that 's what we found it most difficult |
| 10 | I tend to think of all the convenience food as junk but I 'm sure some must be better than others . ’ |
| 11 | The passive version can get rid of all the theys and introduce more variety in subject position : |
| 12 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 13 | I was thinking I would boil the sheets that evening and ask the chemist for a powerful disinfectant and give myself a vinegar douche to get rid of all the germs inside me . |
| 14 | In this case , they suggest , the hearer is encouraged to think of all the implicatures that the speaker could reasonably have expected someone to have derived from the proposition that his childhood days are gone , and then assume that there are still further implicatures that the speaker wants to back . |
| 15 | But Miguel Rafaelo sat at the desk , looking through the files that Shelley had made of all the patients she had seen . |
| 16 | I remember trying to think of all the troops who would line up behind me , and realizing that there was only Anne . |
| 17 | Why not start thinking of all the things you would like to accomplish after you have achieved your new figure . |
| 18 | While climbing the last little bit I could n't help thinking of all the mates who had been killed . |