Example sentences of "the [noun sg] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Creggan turned north away from the Park all he could see for miles ahead was the stretching city . |
| 2 | They created this distressed finish by marking and denting the guitar all over with a tool which gave the instrument a used/vintage appearance . |
| 3 | Prick the base all over with a fork , line with foil and then add rice or baking beans . |
| 4 | Mr Kinnock has made the change all right , and , since he told us in his speech that he has acted with candour , we must believe him . |
| 5 | It sounds smug and priggish , but the change all round , myself included , is , I believe , for the better . |
| 6 | If he does that , do you think you 'll be able to find the signpost all right ? ’ |
| 7 | He grabbed it and held it before his face and in doing so spilled most of the powder all over the front of his fancy tweed jacket . |
| 8 | — Oh , I 'll use the money all right . |
| 9 | They take the money all right , both hands held out straight and gim me . |
| 10 | If this was the case all he would have done would have been to Hegelianize Ricardo . |
| 11 | The sheep were tearing across the field all bunched up together . |
| 12 | Or have we been addressing the Chairman all along ? |
| 13 | I eventually solved the problem by two small blobs of hot stick glue which temporarily glued the component to a scrap piece of wood , dimensioned so that the component overhung the scrap all around . |
| 14 | That will generate two out of the three things we want , that 's the contract and the cheque all right ? |
| 15 | ‘ You might n't find the contrast all that stunning . ’ |
| 16 | This is because the skin responds to sunlight by thickening as a protection , and this leads to blocked follicles , beginning the spot-cycle all over again . |
| 17 | She thought what an undecided old fool Phoebe was , but it made her outburst at the Frolic all the more courageous . |
| 18 | The stillness , the cool , the quiet of the building all combined to produce an effect that was overwhelming and gave rise to a feeling of expectation . |
| 19 | Little wonder , really , she acknowledged ruefully — she 'd seen women in the building all but swoon at his feet every time he walked down the corridor . |
| 20 | They crawled out the bucket all over the deck . |
| 21 | Where the inner band had stuck to the hair all around the sides and back , she had to chop the hair off right to the skin so that he finished up with a bald white ring round his head , like some sort of a monk . |
| 22 | Vic could imagine him spreading the story all round the works . |
| 23 | If I did n't think you 'd go blabbing your side of the story all over town , I 'd have you out of my house in two shakes . ’ |
| 24 | Then her father returned , and she had to tell him the story all over again . |
| 25 | Overshadowing the town , a massive round-shouldered hill loomed , like Ayer 's Rock , Table Mountain and the Wrekin all rolled into one . |
| 26 | She explored the cottage all over again , because it looked quite different — and even more attractive — in the clear light of a sunny February morning , and she found to her joy that there was a large garden at the back where they could grow vegetables . |
| 27 | Fresh-faced and bright-eyed , we five-year-olds trooped off to school : troubled and sophisticated we returned , the stuffing all knocked out of us . |
| 28 | ‘ Not only do I bite my nails , ’ he sighs , ‘ but the skin all around them . ’ |
| 29 | He had the Intelligence and the Security and the Branch all burrowing in their computers for an Englishman called Colt who wiped people for the cause of the Republic of Iraq , and he had sweet nothing to do , unless he went eye to eye with the mysteries of the thermostat . |
| 30 | Mandy and Debby looked the part all right , they looked tough enough for this , particularly Debby , who gave me so much eye-contact and hand-on-knee and dressing-gown disclosure that I almost asked for her telephone number . |