Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before learning about our infertility , we had already planned to adopt ‘ hard-to-place ’ children , and so , with little prospect of natural children , we applied for adoption all the sooner . |
| 2 | I 'd have given birth to twins and discovered what song the Sirens sang , and vaporized and condensed and fallen as snow all over central Calcutta . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That philosopher , ’ said Scarlet , who seemed to have forgotten about going home , ‘ the one I was telling you about , he used to go galloping after women all over the place when his hair and his teeth were all falling out , and he used to write about the terrific compassion he felt for the human race , and his breath was foul . |
| 4 | and he could n't a job and then , I me I mean , he tried for apprenticeships all over the place and other jobs and he just could n't get one ! |
| 5 | The small tools have come from yards all over the country . |
| 6 | I think its possible to fall in love with the same person more than once , you fall in love with them and you get married for that as well as other reasons perhaps , and then you have children and you hardly see them really for the next ten years , at least this is what every one sort of understands and then and then erm and then when you have more time again you can fall in love all over again with exactly the same person , I think this happens to lots of people , which also does n't happen to a lot of people so you have n't |
| 7 | The abolition of national service , Commonwealth immigration , the entry into the labour market of the ‘ baby boom ’ generation , and the increasing numbers of married women remaining in or returning to work all provided additional supplies of labour . |
| 8 | The long , low church is decorated by paintings all over the exterior and interior walls , openings and window frames . |
| 9 | German defences were sited in depth all along the ridge , giving them an uninterrupted view of British movements . |
| 10 | Written in stone all along the ridge therefore are visual records of people going ‘ Whoooaaargh ! ’ with every step . |
| 11 | Drawings on more traditional supports are featured in shows all over town this month . |
| 12 | These are some of the 22 species of butterfly which can be seen in abundance all over the farm . |
| 13 | Sudden , over-ambitious expansion is certain to lead to disappointments all round . |
| 14 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |
| 15 | Those who would have fallen ill even under moderate sexual restrictions succumb to illness all the earlier and more severely under the demands of our present civilized sexual morality ; for we know no better security against the menace to normal sexual life caused by defective predisposition and disturbances in development than sexual satisfaction itself . |
| 16 | The most effective way of doing this is for X to comply with the provisions of section 136 of the Law of Property Act 1925 , i.e. to give Y a written notice , signed by X , unconditionally assigning to Y all X 's rights as buyer under the contract of sale . |
| 17 | Although the loss of the transports assembled or under construction at Le Havre delivered a serious blow to the French plans , others were still being built or collected at ports all along the Bay of Biscay , from Lorient [ or L'Orient ] to Bayonne , including Nantes , La Rochelle and Bordeaux , and the plan , as the English government knew , was for them to assemble at Brest , where the Commander-in-Chief of the naval side of the invasion , Admiral Conflans [ Hubert de Brienne , Comte de Conflans ] had arrived in early July . |
| 18 | Judging by the results achieved so far it 's likely to be adopted by archaeologists all over the UK . |
| 19 | As early as 1955 a CAB sub-committee was set up by the national committee to consider hire purchase problems as seen by bureaux all over the country and by other voluntary organisations with experience of families in difficulty ; and in addition to recommendations about trade practices , about possible action by local authorities , and other things , which were sent to the appropriate associations or government departments , the deliberations of the committee produced results which were to have an influence on the trend and standing of much CAB work in the future . |
| 20 | The houses were shaded clear against the ground : on the hills he could see the white lines of the new walls they were building like netting all over the high ground ; from the direction of the lake he heard an occasional voice , as sharp as the crack of a pistol . |
| 21 | Police closed off streets all around the area , with more than 5,000 people expecting a glimpse of their heroes . |
| 22 | We was drinking beer so , of course , Charlie has to make us all feel small by paying for whiskies all round . |
| 23 | Gulls travel for miles all over the countryside and the coast collecting their food . |
| 24 | The disadvantage of the latter system is that there is a tendency to stuff all the envelopes in a section with the material simply because it is easier than going through m all , and because the gaps will have to be made up envelopes wasted if only a few are to left out of one section . |
| 25 | The headstones here were used as models all over central Bohemia . |
| 26 | As we have seen , it is probable that pairs of virtual particles — one of matter , one of antimatter — spontaneously pop into existence all over the Universe . |
| 27 | Betsy was lucky she had many friends who relished her company by Old Father Thames , where they all congregated when evening came round , cuddling in clusters all over the ground . |
| 28 | It was proposed that the students of Torcy 's academy should be employed in making " a more complete and exact collection of peace-treaties " , with an accompanying commentary ; while the largest such enterprise hitherto , the Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens of J. Dumont de Carlscroon ( twelve volumes : Amsterdam — The Hague , 1726 ) , an assembly of documents reaching back to the age of Charlemagne and drawn from sources all over Europe , was designed mainly as a help in policy-making and a kind of portable archive for the use of diplomats . |
| 29 | FIVE FUNKY FEMALES between 17 and 18 years into soul/hip hop/house- Enjoy warehouse parties , would seriously love to hear from people all over the place , especially males who would like to show us some good places . |
| 30 | Gone was the flattened-out effect ; a more contoured look was possible with these sticks that could be bought from chemists all over the country . |