Example sentences of "[verb] in all the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ RCA have been really understanding in all the things we do . |
| 2 | Just weeks before her death Kelly sat with her father at the computer keyboard in her bedroom and keyed in all the arrangements she had made for her funeral . |
| 3 | I do n't think he finds what he 's looking for , cos after he looks in all the bins he goes off without taking nothing out . |
| 4 | At first she did not notice him standing there near her cage in the darkening gloom but when she did she did something he had never seen her do in all the years he had watched her . |
| 5 | Escaping from under the pillow on the bed was the hem of a caftan , the soft kind he 'd slept in all the time I 'd known him . |
| 6 | Even though he 's calm and affable , he 's chain-smoked throughout the interview , and hardly smoked in all the time we 've spent together prior to it . |
| 7 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 8 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 9 | One answer is to compile a comprehensive media list , as outlined above , which takes in all the groups which are likely to be contacted with any frequency . |
| 10 | With no revenue , many magazines cut down on their pages but we are glad to say that the Ski Club of Great Britain , who publish Ski survey backed us to produce the usual number of editorial pages , so we could fit in all the information you need as committed skiers . |
| 11 | Erm erm and then he was going spare and he says these are the worst I 've ever received in all the years I 've been teaching , right ? |
| 12 | This means that any work of copyright protected under the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 is also protected in all the countries which are members of these conventions which includes most of the major developed countries . |
| 13 | Parents to children I shall begin by looking at support which flows from parents to children , examples of which can be found in all the categories which I have listed , although personal care in a sense is the least important because most adult children do not need it . |
| 14 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 15 | Having made sure students have written their name in the appropriate space , at the top of the paper , collect in all the papers which are then ready to mark . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw myself sitting around a huge table eating supper with an assortment of generations — the way they do in all the films I 've seen about Italians . ’ |
| 17 | as if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built ! |
| 18 | Finally , when he has taken in all the information he can assimilate , after a dramatic ‘ I will go ’ or after waking one morning knowing that the problem has solved itself in his sleep , he applies for his visa , resigns his job , packs his bags . |
| 19 | Yes , yes , oh yes I 've well you know the fires on that I had in all the winter I 'm going to get on that today . |