Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if a couple are not married , the surviving partner receives nothing at all under the Intestacy Rules . |
| 2 | Once they 've joined in the Pirates Club , you 'll be lucky to see them at all , as they go through their paces for the junior cabaret ( where a lot of hidden young talent come to light ) , or as they enjoy the treasure hunts and fancy dress parties . |
| 3 | What I still could n't understand was why he wanted to see me at all . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've sweated blood to get him to agree to see me at all . |
| 5 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 6 | Nicandra led them by all the ways she had known and disregarded since childhood . |
| 7 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 8 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 9 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 10 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 11 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 12 | Now you know the rules , set a good example to other drivers by using them at all times ; who knows , they may even copy your driving style and do it right too ! |
| 13 | Fear of side effects prevent a further 25 to 33 per cent using them at all . |
| 14 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 15 | ‘ You should n't be eating them at all . |
| 16 | The interpretation of what remains as historical evidence is after all fundamental to the historians craft , but the deliberate preservation of historical source materials in the absence of context ( or worse still the failure to preserve them at all ) surely does little justice to the society in which we live . |
| 17 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 18 | Well if they actually took the time to explain to you what went into those sausages , you probably would n't eat them at all , would you ? |
| 19 | All received reduced winter wages with eleven given nothing at all . |
| 20 | Nearing the end of my pregnancy , I had a dream , reminding me of all the good times Sarah and I had shared — the love that bonded us , and the way she had cared for me during my life in Canaan . |
| 21 | No black on wings and no long trailing legs distinguish them from all other large white birds in flight . |
| 22 | It 's this terrible pseudo-rational nagging by just carrying on normally , as if she were n't nagging me at all . |
| 23 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 24 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 25 | ‘ You ca n't fool me with all that John Smith nonsense ! ’ |
| 26 | There had been conflicting stories as to whether Anthony had been intended , Wells having gone on record as saying he had been conceived in a moment of carelessness , professor Gordon Ray , who edited the West-Wells correspondence , as saying it was a deliberate attempt by Wells to keep Rebecca with him , and Rebecca herself as saying , ‘ Wells cheated me of all but one child . ’ |
| 27 | In The Cloud of Unknowing he did not present the whole complexity of the Greek mystic 's vision , but dwelt upon his central belief that God is ultimately and essentially incomprehensible to the human mind and that if we want to ‘ know ’ God in this life , we must divest ourselves of all our ideas about the reality that we call ‘ God ’ . |
| 28 | He had n't been so pleased to see someone in all his life . |
| 29 | If you wan na make a point about that well well we 'll point about them erm there is er a comment erm in this erm erm yeah on paragraph , paragraphs four and five , page five the first of we will buy them including all the legislation that will reduce and if you got up to page three , paragraph six there 's a claim that levels are eight percent higher on the same money ! |
| 30 | ‘ Why should you trust me at all ? |