Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like a concentration camp ; the absurd vulnerability of the nakedness all around , the screws ' blank expressions as they monitored the shuffling of the caged . |
| 2 | She was some kind of a woman all right . |
| 3 | She came up with the wonderfully whacky idea of the Cabinet all being drug smugglers . ’ |
| 4 | They stood with rigid tension listening to the brooding silence of the jungle all around them . |
| 5 | The children ( Max , five , and Oliver , seven ) play freely throughout the house — the Stothert philosophy is that the odd mark on the furniture all adds to the patina . |
| 6 | Accurate , well weighted power steering helps ; so does the knowledge that ABS braking of the discs all round is there for the asking . |
| 7 | In the light of this document , conservative opposition to the constitution all but disappeared . |
| 8 | On my first acquaintance with the mad little road , in about 1950 , I had no feelings of affection for it nor any eye for the beauty all around , my gaze being fixed on the tarmac ahead as I dragged weary legs along it . |
| 9 | To most westerners it may appear as a mere decorative embellishment reflecting the ubiquitous presence of the Cobra all over India , or possessing some remote significance in terms of local superstition or religious belief . |
| 10 | Adding to IBM 's performance woes is that a demoralised workforce has clearly been freewheeling since John Akers announced in January that he was stepping aside , which will make the job of the new man at the top all the harder . |
| 11 | In the shallow sloping terraced garden , with drystone retaining walls , there is a sunken circular garden with a seat all round it and a slate floor which was used for having tea in the shade on boiling afternoons . |
| 12 | An insight into the workings of the learned profession of a kind all too rarely offered by the early sources is to be found in an anecdote concerning the appointment of Kemalpasazade to his first post . |
| 13 | I was just thinking how this feels incredibly … atmospheric , ’ she heard herself admitting reluctantly , waving an arm to encompass the satiny darkness of the sea all around them , ‘ I was thinking of the ghosts of all those Spanish galleons which met a sticky end in these very waters , hundreds of years ago , ’ she added , with a touch of melodrama which made him laugh out loud . |