Example sentences of "all [prep] them [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Nasta has used two large rooms to display the works , all of them privately owned and personally lent for the occasion . |
| 2 | When they went up to the study Ethel and Mary waited outside with the little trays of sundries , catching glimpses of the people in the room , all of them nervously talking in high voices . |
| 3 | Almost all of them probably had something else on their minds . |
| 4 | When suffering eye tests in the darkened cubicle at the back of his shop , almost the only thing Henry ever managed to see was the pitying smile on Beamish 's face as he flashed up smaller and smaller letter sequences , all of them probably spelling ‘ You are a fat shortsighted twerp ’ ! |
| 5 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 6 | All of them please have you got those , all of them did the shop sell |
| 7 | All of them ultimately start out as two very simple molecules , carbon dioxide and water . |
| 8 | The Social Secretary outlined the events which had been held in the past year , all of them well attended . |
| 9 | Such advice came from a number of sources , not all of them well informed . |
| 10 | All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function . |
| 11 | Seriously enough that is , to attempt a genetic transplant of a high concentration of Dutchness in the form of a complete theme-city , with canals , windmills , gabled houses and monuments such as the 112 metre high late Gothic Dom-tower of Utrecht , all of them exactly reproduced with an astonishing attention to detail and accuracy . |
| 12 | The talks were held at the CPF site and included issues which were set forth in four documents , all of them unanimously approved by community representatives and by BPXC . |
| 13 | Malengin Fole led them through several apartments , all of them apparently abandoned . |
| 14 | The hotel 's owner said nine Irishmen had been staying at the hotel since June , all of them apparently working as builders . |
| 15 | The large numbers of retired people , the tourists , the workers in the primary industries ( mining , quarrying , fishing and farming ) and the workers in the secondary industries ( manufacturing ) — all of them together need a great many services , or tertiary industries . |
| 16 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 17 | Even the oldest machines can reach average speeds of 12 miles an hour … all of them painstakingly restored and maintained … |
| 18 | He had all his old weapons about him , all of them lovingly cleaned and oiled and ready . |
| 19 | Two of the blocks together preserved a handful or words from the poem ( promptly recognised by Professor Ihor Sevcenko of Harvard University ) and all of them elaborately carved . |
| 20 | All of them indeed developed what was , from the point of view of the world economy , the same kind of agriculture , becoming massive exporters of grain . |
| 21 | Yet if not all of them necessarily regarded Cnut with disfavour on his accession , it is likely that there were quarters in which he had to face considerable initial hostility . |
| 22 | In some respects , I think it was the detail of the ethnographic ‘ thick description ’ which most alarmed them ; for as almost all of them wistfully pointed out : ‘ it shows exactly how we do the business ’ . |
| 23 | Carrie thought of all the people she knew in the world , all of them still eating and breathing and walking about , and then of Mrs Gotobed , lying still . |
| 24 | Er not all of them still existed , erm and three of the ponds , eleven o of the eleven ponds erm referred to in the erm three of them were in gardens . . |
| 25 | All of them still possessed big overseas empires , in spite of the losses sustained by Spain and Portugal , and they were all heirs to traditions of worldwide enterprise . |
| 26 | If there is a wide range of office books in use by religious in the Church of England , almost all of them now use the ASB rite for the Eucharist . |
| 27 | You will find that we have invited three outside lecturers during the year , all of them highly recommended and each covering a completely different area of work . |
| 28 | All of them endlessly finish spaghetti . |
| 29 | And Dalglish must have gone into shock again as the side who have so far swept all before them suddenly surrendered their 100 per cent home record . |