Example sentences of "all this [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can you escape all this without some haversack of a parenthesis about the lady 's character ? |
| 2 | Much civility , much comfort ( comfort in France ! ) made every arrangement pleasurable ; and all this without more vociferation or commotion than prevails at Paddington ; to say nothing of the second-class carriage being nearly equal to our first . |
| 3 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 4 | Her blackboard technique was also extremely idiosyncratic ; she would write up equations , get them wrong , mumble to herself , rub them out , look them up in a book , and all this without any suspicion that she might be forfeiting the confidence of her pupils . |
| 5 | The Russians watched all this with much amusement , and then sent an official protest note ( which the Foreign Office managed to lose for five days ) demanding an explanation . |
| 6 | ‘ I would treat all this with some caution , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Not that the incumbent emerges from all this with any credit . |
| 8 | The business of the audition is squeezed into all this in less time than it takes to shake a leg . |