Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] all the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A few blades of grass clung to the otherwise barren slope , the gale tugging all the while at their roots . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Willowfield international clocked 29.44 for the three laps of the village circuit leading all the way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | Fortunately for Waller , Thursday night 's events seemed more like a suicide pact involving all the polling firms . |
| 12 | So we 're still hoping it int the bottom , bottom playing all the chip shop there . |
| 13 | The activities brought together 18 senior members of the newly restructured operations group comprising all the east coast and New Zealand sites . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He did n't want Mrs Goreng 's husband stealing all the glory . |
| 16 | The role of the teacher is changing , with less emphasis on the teacher providing all the material for the student , but increased emphasis on providing a stimulating environment for active learning to take place . |
| 17 | A disk containing all the example listings used in the book is available at £25.50 + VAT . |
| 18 | I mean some people were quite willing to answer it and they were quite willing to say what stereotypes they usually employ and others j er just clam up and said , oh I never judge people , and I thought yeah liar doing all the time ? biggest gossips in the office and she 's never got a good word to say about anyone , she 's always digging the dirt but when I presented her with it , I never try to judge people . |
| 19 | But there are no comparative tests to see whether any other form of spelling might be better still , without the disadvantages of ITA 's divergence from familiar type-faces and its problems for those who have difficulty distinguishing all the speech sounds required . |
| 20 | Eyes looking back and I 'd got the old bit moving all the time keeping , he said righto get out , you 're leading me , they were too pleased to get rid of them . |
| 21 | Now this means that this part of the globe the bit nearest to the moon will have more than it 's fair share of gravity because it 's got the gravity of the earth and it 's got the gravity of the moon pulling all the sea which will cause the erm sea to bulge up in this region . |
| 22 | So it 's the same water going all the way round , it 's the same current going all the way through here , so if we 've got ten gallons a minute of electricity coming in there , say ten amps , |
| 23 | She was in trouble as she had a ‘ funny mark running all the way up the knitting ’ . |
| 24 | Include a Lexicon listing all the vocabulary items introduced in the volume , indicating the lesson in which each was first used . |
| 25 | The outlay would be well worth while in terms of the publicity featuring all the hotel 's celebrity guests . |
| 26 | The heat is being kept in by the lid and you get smoke coming all the way around . |
| 27 | Adverbs and adjectives contain similar problems : they both prevent the verb or the noun doing all the work it is capable of and rob a phrase of its necessary precision . |
| 28 | ‘ Why 's the woman doing all the talking ? ’ |
| 29 | A happy home situation does not depend upon there being a housewife in residence twenty-four hours a day , nor on a woman doing all the housework herself . |
| 30 | She shepherded him towards the Captain talking all the time . |