Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving the accident site the investigator needs to make a wreckage plot showing where all the pieces of wreckage were positioned , in relation both to each other and to a fixed point on a large scale map . |
| 2 | She says it is coming on slowly — it 's a long-term job … an awful lot of work … we never envisaged how much time we 'd spend weeding the gravel and general tidying up all the time . |
| 3 | They climbed back into the jeep and went on along the rutted lane , lurching and splashing through deep puddles , the Brigadier worrying audibly all the way because ‘ things were n't as they should be . ’ |
| 4 | There 's new stuff going up all the time in Nottingham . |
| 5 | ‘ I spent hours in the library looking up all the journals I could find — and the thing that kept coming back to me was that even if you had the treatment , there was a chance that the effects of toxoplasmosis on the child might not come out until years later . |
| 6 | In 'ere sir Getting out all the work that you have n't |
| 7 | Two miles to the south is the King 's Buildings Science campus containing virtually all the departments of the Faculty of Science and Engineering , including Agriculture . |
| 8 | It might include a 3000m timed run , 15 minutes Indian File , a school relay competition mixing up all the age groups , a leisurely scenic run , and a short pyramid session around the soccer pitch . |
| 9 | To ease my conscience , for every parking I bought an indoor pot plant , so that by now we have a veritable jungle growing along all the window sills , crawling up the walls and wrapping their tendrils around the television set . |
| 10 | Although they are mainly what would be called consolidating enactments in British practice , one which may perhaps be considered a genuine code is the regulation bringing together all the various Community rules on customs matters , in effect a Community Customs Code , on which the Council adopted a common position on 14 May 1992 . |
| 11 | New Scientist mourned the decay of that Victorian exuberance , the seaside pier , described Eire as a hive of electronic industry and indicated foreboding about the government 's attitude to forking out money for wave power schemes , at the same time laying out all the arguments for and against test-tube babies . |