Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even given that all the changes worked , would such a new strategy pay ? |
| 2 | I think that what we have to decide today , or one of the things that needs to be decided is , is the new settlement in the longer term a sensible answer given that all the all the various considerations , and that erm arguing about residual numbers , here or there has to be taken in the much longer context , I think that 's what all I would like the to say at the moment on on new settlement erm because of the situation I am in of not being able to er say too much in detail about it , I sha n't be making very many contributions to this particular debate . |
| 3 | The psychoanalysis can be used to a limited extent , despite more collective , historical roles er , within disagreed over conflicts in people , or perhaps you say that all the time . |
| 4 | ‘ Gettin' saucier all the time , you are , Nancy , ’ said Mrs Beavis . |
| 5 | " He looks tired all the time now . |
| 6 | It looks better all the same colour instead of some walls green , some walls white . |
| 7 | It looks better all the time do n't it ? |
| 8 | I was left on a piece of ice that was becoming smaller all the time . |
| 9 | Be careful not to qualify praise ( do not , for instance , say , ‘ Thank you for taking out the rubbish — why do n't you do that all the time ? ’ ) . |
| 10 | But you ca n't do that all the time . |
| 11 | Do you do that all the time ? |
| 12 | Oh , you should n't do this all the time . |
| 13 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 14 | He would have to break out of his semi-catatonic state to be able to deal properly with his family responsibilities , let alone all the media attention . |
| 15 | More places are being made available all the time : last night , a 25-bed hostel was opened in the constituency of the hon. Member for Tooting , to be run by the English Churches Housing Group . |
| 16 | Criticised for looking miserable all the time , but others say his seriousness is a pretence and really he 's just taking the mickey out of himself . |
| 17 | ‘ And so I wo n't ask too much about why you 're here , ’ said Calatin , looking hopeful all the same . |
| 18 | The financial motive was looking stronger all the time . |
| 19 | ‘ Allegory ’ would after all imply , to Tolkien ( see pp. 33–7 above ) , that The Lord of the Rings had only one meaning , which would have to remain constant all the way through ; he toyed contemptuously with the notion in the ‘ Foreword ’ as he sketched out a plan for his work as a real allegory with the Ring itself as president Truman 's atomic bomb . |
| 20 | er but if you are actually swimming and you are using the different strokes and so forth , it does use power-wise all the main muscles of the body . |
| 21 | However , I do n't think I would stop playing my Gibson ES175 to play that all the time . |
| 22 | I insisted they look great all the time . |
| 23 | businesses are going bust all the over place . |
| 24 | The other strange thing is that they look happy all the time . |
| 25 | On Jan. 18 the Election Commission declared valid all the nomination papers filed by Ershad to contest parliamentary elections from five constituencies in his home district of Rangpur . |
| 26 | Jerry Lee was a pill-eating , gun-slinging yahoo who shagged his boozed up 13-year-old cousin and made tangible all the horror and lawlessness that was implicit on the Elvis records . |
| 27 | She made sure all the plumbing and wiring was in the path of progress . |
| 28 | While you have the tin to hand , go round any blockwork or crazy paving and make sure all the mortared joints are firm and tight . |
| 29 | Clean the filters out thoroughly and make sure all the fish are looking healthy . |
| 30 | Make sure it 's copied up make sure all the sheets that you 've written on are stuck into your book . |