Example sentences of "everything in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctor told Mum that Sarah had everything in her favour . |
| 2 | She had n't actually intended to go in , but the window display caught her eye and , without thinking , she wandered in , to look , certainly not to buy , until she realised with a pang of guilt , as she gazed at the racks of colourful fashions , that everything in her wardrobe must be hopelessly out of date . |
| 3 | As a result of which , she had to acknowledge ruefully , everything in her wardrobe , while it might be of good quality , was strictly practical . |
| 4 | Everything in her life would be disrupted , experimented with . |
| 5 | Everything in her life — all the pain , blood and death — had been pushing her onwards and into the desert . |
| 6 | Jane Austen is ‘ irresistible — the swiftness of everything in her novels — the celebrity … |
| 7 | Only when the bottles leaked in a smelly , milky mess all over everything in her bag did she discover that the rings and sealing discs did not fit properly . |
| 8 | Pat nodded her head , reckoning up the cost of everything in her mind . |
| 9 | She 's ripped up everything in her bedroom and she 's thrown milk all over the kitchen . ’ |
| 10 | Eternity as the sound of endless babble : one could of course imagine worse things , but the idea of hearing women 's voices forever , continuously , without end , gave her sufficient incentive to cling seriously to life and to do everything in her power to keep death as far away as possible . |
| 11 | Convinced that the dynasty was lost , she felt that her duty was now to do everything in her power to save the country . |
| 12 | Susan and Gay were the people she liked best in the world , and when her father died she had made a mental vow that she would do everything in her power to make life happy for this sister of hers who had worked so hard and shown such courage . |
| 13 | Nan was in the running for that kind of life , and Emily would do everything in her power to get it for her . |
| 14 | Major Malcolm Wallace , the British Olympic equestrian team manager , said last night : ‘ I 'm sure she will do everything in her power to keep equestrianism where it belongs as a strong and integral part of the Olympic movement . ’ |
| 15 | Since you arrived , ever since she picked up the … vibrations between us , that first lunchtime , she has done everything in her power to stir up trouble , including that episode in my office , and tonight 's performance . |
| 16 | She had done everything in her power to force him back and now knew quite clearly and definitely that she did n't want him . |
| 17 | Mother took everything in her stride , a kind , consistently calm woman whose family was everything . |
| 18 | Love is not the impure self-seeking that chokes everything in its wake . |
| 19 | The modern-day locator has everything in its favour — provided only that it is fitted with a functioning battery . |
| 20 | The strategic concept had everything in its favour ; for success it required efficient planning and ruthless aggression . |
| 21 | Conner Peripherals Inc has decided that it does n't want everything in its Cipher Data Systems acquisition and has signed a letter of intent to sell two Cipher product lines to San Diego-based half inch tape drive maker Overland Data Inc for $9m . |
| 22 | When it did , a solid wall of water , twenty feet deep , would sweep down the old bed , crushing everything in its way , hitting the highway with the force of an express train . |
| 23 | He found words strong enough to describe a " torrent " which " bore down everything in its way " , a " great current " and " an extraordinary agitation " . |
| 24 | It was a wafer-thin majority for a Prime Minister who had invested everything in its outcome . |
| 25 | The urge to order the natural world appears to be an innate characteristic of human beings : ‘ a place for everything and everything in its place ’ . |
| 26 | A Lancashire miner 's daughter , whose grandmother ‘ was very sprightly , very clean … very like prigmeat , you know , everything in its place ’ , remembers how one of her brothers moved into the next-door house when he married , and ‘ they helped with them when they were older . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ A place for everything and everything in its place ’ is my motto |
| 28 | ‘ In terms of Colosseum , I was required to hold everything in its place , because Jon Hiseman was drumming up a storm , being very busy , as was Gary Moore on guitar and , to an extent , Don Airey on keyboards . |
| 29 | He liked everything in its place , wanted his kandoras or suffras , T-shirts or slacks pristine and neatly folded . |
| 30 | Her woollen hat was lying on a chair : she was a tidy woman , over-tidy ; there was a place for everything and everything in its place , was her motto . |