Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] all [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major defied the wise saw which says that the British people are happy to pay more tax in order to get better public services , and played the issue of Labour 's higher taxes for all it was worth : it was worth the difference between an overall majority of 21 and a hung Parliament . |
| 2 | Well let's not say all nine planets for all we know they 'll discover a new one tomorrow . |
| 3 | I kept my word to Jenkins and backed his proposals for all I was worth as a welcome , if minor , rationalization of the creaking old eighteenth-century ox-wagon of our criminal law . |
| 4 | Bung 'em at the baddies for all you 're worth , but do n't waste 'em — you 've only got a limited supply ! |
| 5 | She was screaming and waggling her legs for all she was worth , but the cruel loops of nylon had her about the wrists , the kite was in the jaws of the wind , and she was already well out of reach even if I had wanted to catch her . |
| 6 | ‘ I was busy composing a graceful speech of thanks for all you 've done for me . ’ |
| 7 | Thanks for all you 've done . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , they come round and they were all on about it and er , erm and that was it , Darren called us all into the canteen , well I , I mean Pam must have told you that I was , I could n't get over it and he said thanks for all you 've done , all your support and I thought yeah |
| 9 | It was completely anarchic , they could have been fighting for anything , cheaper teabags for all they cared , half of them . |
| 10 | ‘ Just as long as you get up there in one piece and stay put all night you can crawl up on your hands and knees for all I care . ’ |
| 11 | She wants to do bareback ridin' in a circus and show 'er legs like all them circus girls do . |
| 12 | Not a drop of gin or brandy ever touched me lips in all me born days . |
| 13 | Thanks to all you readers out there for helping us to reach this target during a recession which has hammered the magazine trade as hard as any . |
| 14 | LAIRDS OF ALL THEY SURVEY |
| 15 | If Karr was right , Herrick would have kept copies of all his jobs-as a precaution . |
| 16 | You know we had we had field postcards in all them days . |
| 17 | I know nothing about him , she thought , nothing at all ; he could have robbed banks for all I know . |
| 18 | I 've a good yard down here by the house roomy with enough buildings for all I need . |
| 19 | Unless she is very lucky , she will be the one who will be expected to provide the stimulation , for her elderly parent may have been alone since breakfast-time , and will be waiting to be ‘ cheered up ’ by stories of all she has been doing during the day . |
| 20 | It was always assumed , as we will repeatedly find in these hooligan discourses , that ‘ the adolescent ’ was a boy : when the other sex figures at all it is as mothers , usually neglectful ones . |
| 21 | Once they had set off , Mr Smith and Mr Jones , for all their being well into their middle years , proceeded to behave like schoolboys , singing coarse songs and making even coarser comments on all they saw from the window . |
| 22 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 23 | ‘ My one motto or guiding principle for the year is value for members in all we do . |
| 24 | trying to shake the hands of all his |
| 25 | and there 's twenty of them and the , I do n't suppose , they do n't expect me to fill both sides of all them tapes |
| 26 | The princess was taught to curb her natural impetuous temper and to own her mistakes to all she had wronged , regardless of rank . |
| 27 | If he is liable to the plaintiffs at all it can only be on the basis of professional negligence . |
| 28 | Now if there is work in the mines at all it 's with the co-operatives . |
| 29 | Every farmer knows that engineers may lower the levels of rivers for all they are worth , but that , without a follow-up operation of underdrainage in each saturated field , the real rewards for agriculture will never be harvested . |
| 30 | Er , what was the plan about the others for all you knew who you believed was there , might have been somewhere else in the flat . |