Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the wishes of the dead person are known , namely if he has made a will , the process will be easier , but it will still take some ti me to go through all the necessary procedures . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you really want me to go into all the nasty , seedy little details ? |
| 3 | Yes er I mean they er they , they want the whole peasant movement involved , I mean after all the peasants they 're , although they 're a wealthy peasant , these people are not enormously wealthy , they may be wealthy on a relative scale in a village , but certainly not er you know er er er half as weal anything like as wealthy as , as a , the , the landlords , the large land owners and so on and that it is a peasant movement , the whole peasant strata they wanted to involve |
| 4 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 5 | ‘ Listen to me carefully and pass on what I say to all the others . |
| 6 | But I apologise to all the people who may be getting fed up with it . |
| 7 | It 's as though I 'm holding everything that I want in all the world … there in the palm of my hand . |
| 8 | It was from my teacher and her two other pupils , who were older than me , that I learnt about all the intrigues and scandals that went on in the village . |
| 9 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 10 | I speak for all the servants of the embassy in Paris . |
| 11 | Paragraph , as far as the nineteen ninety two harvest and seed is concerned I list below all the allocations for the various units including your own . |
| 12 | I look at all the jobs that 's got , that have to be done in the day , right , and look at which ones I should do , and then all the other jobs I just share out between the relevant people . |
| 13 | I look after all the bills and accounts . |
| 14 | I piped with all the passion of a Cartland virgin ( which indeed I was , mentally if not technically ) . |
| 15 | I stand in all the wrong places … ’ |
| 16 | What was I to do with all the material that I gathered ? |
| 17 | But this year , by the time I get through all the British news , I 'm too knackered to even glance at the latest adventures of Glistenin' Bill Clinton . |
| 18 | I prayed for all the King 's Kids in their work places . |
| 19 | I feel kind of cheated myself , and I stare at all the shops and people knowing this time I really wo n't be back . |
| 20 | So I stuck to all the side dishes , which were they were very nice . |
| 21 | The shelves looked good , and I piled on all the books , heavy ones at floor level , lighter ones at the top . |
| 22 | I suppose with all the students wandering about pedestrians Yes I wonder where that was cos I 'm sure there was a Henry Moore sculpture . |
| 23 | ‘ In the interim , I appeal to all the van plant suppliers to continue supplying the factory in order to give it a fighting chance of survival . ’ |
| 24 | But every little detail seemed crucial and it was something I struggled with all the way through , but knowing that Cathy , Joan and I were all on the same wavelength and felt the same level of commitment was a great relief . |
| 25 | And I looked at all the rest of them — a tough lot , I can tell you — they could n't believe it either . |
| 26 | Lunch was an avocado and prawn sandwich and a carton of mango juice , which I admit were a bit out of character but otherwise I looked for all the world like a real musher . |
| 27 | I thought about all the young men who 'd climbed into those machines and the death they 'd seen and the death they 'd made and the death they 'd received . |
| 28 | As I watched them , I thought about all the crazy things the people I 've grown up with believe and do . |
| 29 | I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely . |
| 30 | Then I thought of all the trees I had taken for granted in the past — beside the Cherwell at Oxford or on the pavements of a Surrey suburb . |