Example sentences of "[verb] all [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doth all the winter-time at still midnight |
| 2 | How much , we wondered , would it cost to live like royalty , or the very rich , to pay someone to come in and do all the things us ordinary folk have to do for ourselves . |
| 3 | It is a question , ’ Loppe said , ‘ whether it would not be cheaper to let them do all the refining . |
| 4 | And here 's me dyin' to go and him , ’ she said waving a finger at George , ‘ havin' all the chances , and him hating books . ’ |
| 5 | At last , the man who had done all the talking said that while he , speaking for the I.R.A. , was grateful for the support offered , they Bert and Jasper — must realise that the I.R.A . |
| 6 | He reversed out of the parking space , and Fran fixed a determined smile to her face — then gasped in dismay when the man who had done all the talking stepped into their path . |
| 7 | And if Fen thought he 'd done all the chasing there , she 'd eat her hat . |
| 8 | SO NOW THAT WE 'VE DONE ALL THE PREPARATION , ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PUT YOUR PIZZA IN THE OVEN AND TUCK INTO THE FRESHEST-TASTING PIZZA IN TOWN . |
| 9 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 10 | Llewellyn sportingly admitted : ‘ I have got to feel sorry for Andy Adams — he 's done all the work . ’ |
| 11 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 12 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 13 | Besides , I 'd like you to be there — especially as you 'll have done all the work . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We 've lined up a nice selection of videos — you must have first choice since you 've done all the work ! ’ |
| 15 | I had done all the cooking and was waiting for my husband to come home . |
| 16 | Although by his own admission , Nicholson had ‘ done all the drugs ’ he did not become addicted to any . |
| 17 | Together they had done all the things that she had wanted to do and never been allowed to : gone to Coney Island , licked lollipops on the front there , enjoyed herself in funfairs , and ridden on the Big Wheel . |
| 18 | ‘ He could have gone back later and done all the things he claimed to have done … ’ |
| 19 | I 've found as a music teacher the best classroom situation … is where I 'm completely an onlooker ; having given them the stimulus , they 've done all the build-up , they 've done the preparation , they 've got the task . |
| 20 | He had done all the sums , and he knew only one answer fitted , but still something snagged . |
| 21 | And after you 've done all the item padding , allow another fifteen per cent for contingencies . |
| 22 | On Monday we done all the washing . |
| 23 | in the local press joked that if he had done all the write-up said then he must have joined the police when he , was about 7 ! |
| 24 | At home , Mrs Jelbart had done all the Christmas preparations this year — the cake and pudding , the mince pies , the decorations , the turkey and the tree . |
| 25 | She had done all the house out and got all the presents and everything , but then they says I could n't have him or see him . |
| 26 | However , readers can take some comfort from the fact that for 18 months we have produced every word of a 16 page newsletter on a PC in WordPerfect , yet done all the page makeup on a Macintosh . |
| 27 | First of all I was invited to lunch in Leeds and they sent the helicopter for me , piloted by Captain John Leeson , who had done all the flying for the aerial shots in the film . |
| 28 | Sharpe said White had done all the punching but he was found guilty and fined £100 , ordered to pay £50 compensation , with £138 costs . |
| 29 | She is very proud of being the first person ever to sit on her ; Pauline broke the pony and the two have done all the training since , with professional help in the later stages from instructor Mal Kendall . |
| 30 | He had done all the thinking he could . |