Example sentences of "all [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe they come to believe , when they are young adults and they receive the acclaim — and the money — which accompanies championship that it was all worth while . |
| 2 | If the families who received our hampers had as much pleasure as we did in planning them , then it was all worth while . |
| 3 | Still , sacrifices had to be made , though sometimes one could n't help wondering whether it was all worth while . |
| 4 | All through life one sees the effect of the human mind . |
| 5 | Hilton comments : All through Scale 2 Hilton implies that the pursuit of this inner calling is open to all : He is careful not to be over-precise in formulating rules of practice which might not be helpful to all temperaments and all needs . |
| 6 | All through music , non fucking stop . |
| 7 | There can also be a knock-on effect of the higher and more innovative technology that some foreign firms employ , all through society . |
| 8 | Whatever lucky chances there were and miraculous escapes , all through history there have been despoliations , deprivations , tearings asunder , deaths and devastations , and among those to whom nothing is restored must be people around us , people we see . |
| 9 | Good friends we were , Buffy and I , all through school , even though he was much the cleverer . |
| 10 | like , you know what I was like , all through school and me A levels I was still going down every day and everything |
| 11 | A spectacular way : all through breakfast , the track ran along the north shore of Lake Superior , so close that at times the train seemed to be overhanging the water . |
| 12 | All through trains ceased on the GC in the early hours of 4th September 1966 , when signal boxes were locked out of use until demolition began at the turn of the year . |
| 13 | He looked as if he would like to sear her with another acid remark but he remained silent , as she did , apart from a few non-committal remarks , all through dinner . |
| 14 | All through tickets would be returned to the Railway Clearing House , although one or two are in collectors ' hands . |
| 15 | All through Indonesia , as we flew past volcanoes , the aircraft ran well . |
| 16 | All through Saturday , she worked on it , telling herself that it was none of her business . |
| 17 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 18 | However , the governors were unwilling to leave out any of the head 's recommendations and they decided to treat them all as priorities . |
| 19 | perceiving through reflecting all as will . |
| 20 | If there are any other suggestions There were none , and it being obvious who would have to head the subscribers , Richard wound up the meeting by reading aloud a letter from Willis , delivered by way of Bluebird , in which , addressing them all as shipmates , he sent them all a squeeze of the hand and God bless . |
| 21 | When Cornelius Agrippa ( c. 1486 — c. 1534 ) had discussed Christian prayers and ceremonies in relation to magic and pagan religions , he had regarded them all as examples of the same basic activity . |
| 22 | Instead of generalising findings from one patient to others by treating them all as representing instances of a single syndrome , the approach is to treat them all as people in whom a language-processing system which , before their neurological damage , was the same for all of them , has been impaired in some specific way . |
| 23 | It was this impatience with the manipulative potential inherent in talk of natural rights , and the possibility of its being used to delay or reverse urgently needed measures to ameliorate the lot of the common man , which was Bentham 's reason for dismissing it all as rubbish . |
| 24 | The beat-card counts them all as Bartholomew Close . |
| 25 | The summit will not be all about Mrs Thatcher 's ritual denunciation of the Social Charter , her contempt for the potential of the European Parliament , her denial that the time is right , her isolated war against any truck with monetary union . |
| 26 | ‘ It was all about heart . |
| 27 | Later , she told Constance all about Jim 's new job . |
| 28 | Raymond Floyd might have suggested that the match was all about sportsmanship and camaraderie but there was no disguising the feeling in the American camp when someone as eloquent as Tom Watson could state that he was " over here to kick some butt " . |
| 29 | ‘ It was all about cooperation ; people worked together and got results and shared the spoils . ’ |
| 30 | Then , the message was all about freedom , flexibility and legs , bared to the thigh in pelmet skirts , streamlined in skin-tight Lycra , or flashing in black opaque tights . |