Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] all the " in BNC.
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1 | These days the word ‘ tourist ’ is generally associated with the package holiday-maker who follows a known itinerary and for whom all the arrangements are made by a travel company . |
2 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
3 | The Honourable A. P. J. Vigars , who was at Cambridge two years ahead of Howard ; the retiring figure in Trinity of whom all the great men of Howard 's generation were in awe . |
4 | ‘ Knocking Leeds United is n't exactly new , and now that we 're champions I suppose we 'll have to put up with it all the more . ’ |
5 | He contains within himself all the pop factions ( and the racial and social divisions that lie behind them ) that record companies try to straddle with strategies of hybridization as maximum market penetration . |
6 | Where Hegel sees national or supra-national civilisations as the instrument or the perfecting dialectic , Marx sees classes of society ; and where Hegel sees history as the account of the development of the abstract spirit of humanity — or , perhaps better , of the development of human consciousness — Marx relates his view to the mode of production which he sees as comprehending within itself all the factors affecting the formation and attributes of a society . |
7 | In 1810 the management of the whole of the Crown 's landed estates were placed by statute under three Commissioners of Woods , Forests and Land Revenues , to whom all the powers of the two Surveyors-General of Woods and Forests were transferred . |
8 | And as it grows inside me so it gathers to itself all the reasons why such a bitter thing should not , can not be . |
9 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
10 | All Eva remembers is lying on the sofa wondering if she was going to die , and saying , " Well , Lord , if this is the end of my life I 'll just have to say how thankful I am , and what a wonderful privilege its been , but if it 's your will for me to live then I just give myself to you all the more . |
11 | When he murmured and clung to her all the more , she was tempted to put him in his night-shift and take him straight to bed , but Sunday night was bath night , and he would sleep all the better for it , she thought . |
12 | In fact probably you 'd move more cos he says yo your instinct is take your feet off I think your instinct would be to jump on it all the harder . |