Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] all the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spring she planted a garden of remembrance round the grave using all the flowers her mother had loved . |
| 2 | His response was the great ode , ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ , a masterpiece reflecting all the thinking he had done about poetry , pain , and redemption during his years of silence . |
| 3 | Practise selecting different blocks of text using all the keystrokes above . |
| 4 | And er they had a surveyor gang checking all the lines in the tunnel that the surveyors put up to keep the men driving the right tunnel it should n't go p one past the other . |
| 5 | She was flung violently forward , to land face down in a heap of blankets , the crushing weight of her assailant forcing all the air out of her body . |
| 6 | He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time . |
| 7 | On leaving the Course , any student who has passed at least one module will receive a glossy covered printed transcript showing all the modules passed , their credit value , the grades achieved , the fields ( if any ) studied and the award ( if any ) made . |
| 8 | A few blades of grass clung to the otherwise barren slope , the gale tugging all the while at their roots . |
| 9 | The ticket office was surmounted by a great mural bearing all the symbols of engineering success , a multi-arched bridge , river steamers , and , of course , the steam engine arriving from the left and dominating all . |
| 10 | The steady flow of emigrants from the British Isles meant that landowners in the West Indies did not need to look further afield to find workers for growing tobacco , for which they needed a relatively small labour force working all the year round . |
| 11 | Example 2 takes the same scale across all the string sets and Example 3 shows how this information may be practically applied to start a cascade effect crossing all the string sets . |
| 12 | Among the letters were the first three massive instalments from Prince detailing all the business transactions to date , a letter from Mrs Mitchell , and one for Eliza from Mrs Coxen . |
| 13 | When you go to see a film you do n't get subtitles at the bottom explaining all the scenes . |
| 14 | You ca n't how can how can you talk about self help solving all the problems when you 've got an aging population who 'll never work again . |
| 15 | The Willowfield international clocked 29.44 for the three laps of the village circuit leading all the way . |
| 16 | This gave us two kinds of ‘ correct ’ lattice : ( i ) a single path lattice containing only the words intended by the speaker and ( ii ) a lattice containing all the homophones and homophonic phrases that were valid under the fine-class description . |
| 17 | And it finds an echo in the chapter of Isaiah that formed our first lesson ; the word ‘ peace ’ is n't actually used , but the picture of deliverance has a thread of divine peace running all the way through it . |
| 18 | And suddenly I caught sight of this … prat sailing down the Cam back towards Cambridge in a punt , with a girl doing all the work , while he reclined at the exact angle , trying to play a chord and strum a tune … |
| 19 | Fortunately for Waller , Thursday night 's events seemed more like a suicide pact involving all the polling firms . |
| 20 | So we 're still hoping it int the bottom , bottom playing all the chip shop there . |
| 21 | He 'd never ceased to find fascination within its pages , for it was Maybellome 's intention to make an encyclopaedia listing all the flora , fauna , languages , sciences , ideas , moral perspectives — in short , anything that occurred to her — that had found their way from the Fifth Dominion , the Place of the Succulent Rock , through to the other worlds . |
| 22 | And I 'd like to ask the panel , what possibilities there are of getting a nationwide campaign listing all the hospitals that 's under threat ? |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , ’ said the boy , ‘ she 's inside the wardrobe carrying all the clothes ! ’ |
| 24 | Capitalist development was generating a factory proletariat bearing all the characteristics Marx had depicted . |
| 25 | Do you remember years ago a an aeroplane burning all the mares in London ? |
| 26 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |
| 27 | The achievement results in English consistently followed the order above with the ‘ manual English ’ group out-performing all the others . |
| 28 | The activities brought together 18 senior members of the newly restructured operations group comprising all the east coast and New Zealand sites . |
| 29 | I have used therefore the word ‘ Nature ’ in the sense of the German ‘ Bedeutung ’ , as signifying that essential character of a part which belongs to it in its relation to a predetermined pattern , answering to the ‘ idea ’ of the Archetypical World in the Platonic cosmogony , which archetypical or primal pattern is the basis supporting all the modifications of such part for specific powers and actions in all animals possessing it … |
| 30 | We were weary and did n't spare a thought for how she must be feeling — sick in the mornings , with a husband flying all the time . |