Example sentences of "[coord] all is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law then pretends it 's a waif or stray and that you 're doing it a favour , and all is forgiven . |
| 2 | It 's , that and all is chuffing cold ! |
| 3 | Think but this and all is mended |
| 4 | Think but this , and all is mended , |
| 5 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 6 | The creature is seen chasing two teenage boys — but all is saved when one tosses him a can of Pepsi . |
| 7 | Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard ; And he taps with his whip on the shutters , but all is locked and barred : He whistles a tune to the window , and who should be waiting there But the landlord 's black-eyed daughter , |
| 8 | But all is forgotten on the last lap in Peel Park through the cheering lines of spectators to the finishing line . ’ |