Example sentences of "[noun] all [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact as well as the shock of the bullet wound knocked him crashing face down to the ground , his legs all mixed up with the trolley 's wheels . |
| 2 | This dust , and a , what 's it a hundred and fifty cars all piled up on top of one another |
| 3 | One suspects that it is to demonstrate what the attractions of the famous Museum Island will be when the plan favoured by the Berlin museums supremo Dube but hotly contested by many museum professionals comes to fruition , for Dube has decided that the island is to be dedicated entirely to these archaeological collections , while the fine arts all move over to the western side of the city to more modern museums . |
| 4 | The voices all jumped out at once . |
| 5 | An apple tree grew flat against the wall on one side , and in spring , when it blossomed , it was like a huge , lacy fan all spread out in a froth of flowers and leaves . |
| 6 | JOLLY hockey-sticks … it 's Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders all dolled up like a pair of overgrown schoolgirls for a St Trinians-style TV comedy . |
| 7 | I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him . |
| 8 | Not the young Francis either , in whom I stood a better hope of experiencing the odd happy memory , but Francis as I 'd last experienced him with the tang of his Lucky Strikes , last night 's whisky and dejection all togged up as joie de vivre . |
| 9 | HEWLETT-PACKARD , DATA GENERAL , DELL ALL SIGN UP FOR NEXTSTEP 486 |
| 10 | That morning , just after Sullivan had received a cable form Washington telling him to inform the new government that the United States would continue diplomatic relations with Iran , machine guns mounted on the surrounding buildings all opened up in a pre-arranged barrage . |
| 11 | A Whether they come in through the letterbox , under the door or around the windows , draughts all add up to a large heating bill . |
| 12 | But few celebrities worked so hard to ensure that the proceeds from the golden years all ended up in her coffers . |
| 13 | What we have here is the untarnished pop of Pet Shop Boys mixed with the stylish swish of Pixies and the expertise of REM all rounded off with the insane power of a contemporary Wagner . |
| 14 | When you 're arguing about the money to be spend on repairs , and for example the reason why we 've had to get strict budgetary control on the amount of money which is being spent on repairs , is because that money all comes out of tenants ' rents , and it 's basically a balance — if we want to increase the erm numbers and the standard of repairs that we offer as a landlord , then it has to be met by a further increase in rents , and we think we 've got the balance about right at the moment . |
| 15 | They hoped that the molecules would react with the surface to form a film , with the long chains all sticking out like a field of corn . |
| 16 | ‘ Her hair all frizzed out like a black halo and ever so sweet . |
| 17 | Established players Nigel Smith , David Jarrold , Pat Watford , Andy Cooper and Graham Arnold all come back into contention . |
| 18 | Nutty stood frowning , not able to complain , her insides all knotted up at the thought of jumping in . |
| 19 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 20 | look at Bryony , with that red peaked hood and , and the front of this rain cover hanging down and the back bit all punched up at the back |
| 21 | Field experiments with stuffed birds also demonstrate that different species of small birds all close in for the attack on a hated enemy — in this case not a predator but a cuckoo . |
| 22 | In a similar way , in the second century BC , some cities of Asia Minor made coins ( e.g. , fig. 6 ) of a weight standard which was heavier than that in force in the kingdom of Asia ; it is no surprise that these coins all turn up in hoards outside Asia , mostly in northern Syria , where they were exported either as a political subsidy for the pretender Alexander Balas or as trade objects in exchange for goods , perhaps slaves . |
| 23 | And Rufus the other day , my brother and sister all going up to Sheila , the dog 's right there , I 'm going hi ! |
| 24 | The three teams all start out in an eight-team Fourth Division . |
| 25 | The table and chairs and windowboxes all fit in with the period of the house . |
| 26 | Wage and salary awards , high interest charges , the rise in VAT and general inflation all add up to increased overheads , which are reflected in the price of a funeral . |
| 27 | I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below … |
| 28 | But all the gains that we had made out of labour movement , improvements in working time , improvements in health and safety , equality issues , legal rights all went out of the window , and what has happened to the vast majority of those service jobs ? |
| 29 | When we arrived , Heathcliff , Hareton , and Joseph all came out of the house to inspect the child . |
| 30 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |