Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] all [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greens and golds were all faded and darkened to a dull blackish colour that looked all the drabber in the presence of so many fresh flowers . |
| 2 | I 'd return home and do all the usual things that keep your sense of yourself — eat , play around with children , do my washing , telephone my nearest and dearest , talk late into the night with my hosts , have fantasies , pleasure myself . |
| 3 | The coronation seemed to last for hours , but I managed to say and do all the right things . |
| 4 | The films were inevitably foreign and subtitled , and even if we did n't understand them it was as though through exposure to some cinematic photosynthesis we would absorb the esoteric and become all the better intellectually for it . |
| 5 | The result is that Jarvis has put on more than half a stone — he 's up to 11 and ahalf now — and feels all the better for it . |
| 6 | They are novels in which the main characters debate topical social and economic issues as well as fall in and out of love , marry and have children , pursue careers , make or lose their fortunes , and do all the other things that characters do in more conventional novels . |
| 7 | They might turn up on time and do all the right things , or they might not . |
| 8 | It was time to get up from what everyone else regarded as the mire and do all the conventional things again . |
| 9 | He 's like a dictator who 's just come to power and does all the awful violent things at once , like changing the laws and murdering people and confiscating everything — then later on it 'll all be taken for granted and he can play at being kind and good . ’ |
| 10 | This leaves the Philistines [ middle-classes ] for the great bulk of the nation ; — a livelier sort of Philistine than ours , and with the pressure and false ideal of our Barbarians taken away , but left all the more to himself and to have his full swing . |