Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] all [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 2 | There comes a time , for people like you and me , when the mind has been stripped of all that is mythic . |
| 3 | I 'm getting cold again , and my feet are aching with all this walking . |
| 4 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |
| 5 | It is plain that if the judge had been appraised of all these matters now before the court , he would have come to the same conclusion as we have , namely that the necessary intention had not been proved on the part of the appellants . |
| 6 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 7 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 8 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 9 | Erm we 've got some stand alone term insurances which are currently paying one pound ninety , so the moment they increase the policy fee they 'll attempt to lapse so we 're writing to all those people now to tell them to increase . |
| 10 | Anyone got any idea why we 're looking at all these interesting factors of three hundred and sixty ? |
| 11 | But then you 're paying for all this , so the choice is yours … |
| 12 | I think you need a lot of knowledge , especially nowadays when they 're insisting on all this national curriculum , you 've got to have a very broad ability . |
| 13 | It was an untidy sort of buildup but the ball fell invitingly for on the edge of the area and who has n't been scoring at all this season finished with all the aplomb of a player who 's full of confidence . |
| 14 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 15 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 16 | This is an important point , since in many libraries selection is part of an integrated approach which also includes acquisition and cataloguing , and the national bibliography 's machine-readable records are used for all these functions ( although the actual selection process is usually based upon the print version ) . |
| 17 | The conductor will say , ‘ So that I can communicate my ideas to the orchestra ’ ; and the orchestra will say , ‘ So that he can learn the repertory at our expense ’ ; and the manager will say , ‘ Because I am paying for all this and I insist you rehearse . ’ |
| 18 | It 's incredible to think that it 's been going on all these years ! |
| 19 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 20 | ( If you have been stimulated by all this consideration of hypothetical possibilities to find out what relationships actually hold between sex , job type and absenteeism , you might like to read Chadwick-Jones et al. |
| 21 | The problem , however , was that although efficiency demanded that an inspector be experienced and the commissioners , Fullerton believed , would appoint his son if they were permitted , ‘ they are actuated in all these matters by the influence of the Earle of Isla , who often fills up these employments at London without any presentments ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ With this new album , we 're acknowledging that , if your 're going to look outwards , it 's also important to look within yourself to find out exactly what you , as an individual , are doing about all this destruction , whether it 's political , social or environmental . |
| 23 | This was because these capitalists lived in part or in whole out of the profits which should have been shared with all those who had helped in the process of production . |
| 24 | Am I to be mobbed by all these folk for want of an end to their Mystery ? |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm fascinated by all this filming . |
| 26 | What reply might be given to all this ? |
| 27 | You 're not , and you 're not gon na be blinded by all these like he was , what was he saying about all endowments are are not unit then you were saying yes they are and |
| 28 | In a month 's time , she decided , applying some pale lipstick , I 'll be laughing about all this . |
| 29 | It adds , it will be absorbing for all those with a general interest in the subject . |
| 30 | Politicians can not reasonably be blamed for all this . |