Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] everything [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how do we know that everything in this dump has n't fallen off the back of a lorry ? ’ |
| 2 | In the Quran , Allah says that everything in this universe vests absolutely in Allah ( Sura al-Maidah , ayat 17 ) and that the State is but a mere Trustee . |
| 3 | It seemed that everything in the championship really hung on the reliability of each driver 's car . |
| 4 | The bed faced the window that looked out over miles of countryside and it seemed that everything in the room was white , from the white , frilled curtains to the dainty white duvet cover and pillow case all edged with broderie anglaise . |
| 5 | So before that most believers , like the young Darwin , took it for granted that everything in the Bible was true in a simple way . |
| 6 | Yet enquiry will show that everything in fact happened just as predicted . |
| 7 | I would like to see the earth grow and everything in the earth grow until it touched the skids of heaven , and no one could be dead . |
| 8 | So we got there and he said right okay you 're the press chappy he 's right I 've put your press people over there so while respect Lieutenant Commander that really wo n't do because everything including the Band of the Royal Marines is between them and the Princess Royal so we argued about this and the compromise eventually was that that everybody would have to stay there until the ceremony started and then we could bring the stills photographers round to the end and up to one side where it was all happening mainly to get a picture of his wife cutting the cake . |
| 9 | Industry does not stop because one of our political parties likes to suggest that everything in Britain is going wrong . |
| 10 | Let us remember that everything for which we legislate is for worse cases and blanket rules . |
| 11 | So if you look down your table you 've got your concentrations here in parts per million and you can see that everything above fluorine would be a major constituent and everything below it would be a minor constituent . |
| 12 | You know that everything in here has come from you . |
| 13 | Certain astronomers now incorrectly assume that everything about our circumstance must be unspecial , insignificant , and just plain mediocre . |
| 14 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 15 | It is perhaps worth saying again that this argument for a rational basis for pedagogy does not imply that everything about good teaching can be reduced to what is rational . |
| 16 | Jonah ( portrayed as everything from muscular faun to bearded elder ) has an iconography whose pedigree and variety would make Noah envious . |
| 17 | All sources , especially late ones , are likely to get things wrong , sometimes spectacularly so , but that does not mean that everything in them can simply be swept aside as nonsense . |
| 18 | From their boat , they saw that everything on the island was entirely covered with fine white dust , like snow , and that the trees on the northern part of Krakatoa and Verlaten Island had been stripped of their leaves and branches by the rain of falling pumice , while those growing on Lang Island and Polish Hat seemed to have got away without much damage . |
| 19 | She felt that everything between them was clear now , so that speech was like dropping pebbles into clear water and watching them sink to their resting place . |
| 20 | There is for this er my sister here , she was after my mother died and everything like that . |
| 21 | And there 's no wrinkles or fat involved and everything about her is her . |
| 22 | The sun shone from a cloudless sky , birds sang and everything in the extensive , well-tended garden looked lush and green and fresh . |
| 23 | You 'll notice that everything for sale has the capacity to breathe . |
| 24 | It would seem that everything between them has been ruined — but no , they decide to treat the day as if it had never been ; and when he has gone Emily picks up her goose-quill pen and again writes ‘ Dear Edmund ’ . |
| 25 | In either case , it would seem that everything in the universe would then be determined by evolution according to the laws of science , so it is difficult to see how we can be masters of our fate . |
| 26 | With the spread of trolleybus conversions across West and North London all the older ex-L.C.C. and ex-Metropolitan types of car were scrapped and everything from the London UniteD Tramways was scrapped except the Feltham type modern cars . |
| 27 | And what to eat and everything but |
| 28 | For several decades most scientists assumed that the discrepancy was too negligible to worry about : after all , no one said that everything in the Universe should work perfectly . |
| 29 | Miro once said that everything in his paintings and sculptures was derived from something he saw . |
| 30 | To be fair , the C E C have not tried to say that everything in the garden is rosy , they 've also highlighted a number of problem areas that still exist . |