Example sentences of "all [prep] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't necessarily agree with his solutions , but his philosophical concerns are relentlessly modern : the problem of sexual love ; the problem of sexual relationships ; and all of it enfolded by the problems of industry and the environment . |
| 2 | Before the war Burma had the biggest inland water fleet in the world ; practically all of it went . |
| 3 | Dunlop 's surplus was therefore distributed and nearly all of it went to Morrison to put him 819 above McLachlan which was much more than the undistributed surplus of Lindsay . |
| 4 | ‘ I have a long memory , all of it coloured by the past , ’ Jenna said bitterly , and he let her go , his expression disgusted . |
| 5 | A whole pine forest produces so much pollen that ponds become covered with curds of it — and all of it wasted . |
| 6 | There had been a lot of talk among the customers about Harry Pascoe 's venture to the Americas , and not all of it had been complimentary . |
| 7 | His charm , his little anecdotes , even this scene played in the velvet darkness — all of it had been to answer the challenge she 'd so foolishly set before him . |
| 8 | There was a pause and then much laughter , not all of it forced . |
| 9 | There was Tizer and cream soda and beer and lassi to drink , all of it laid out on white tablecloths with tiny paper napkins for all of us . |
| 10 | The 60-year-old former catering company director left more than Pounds 200,000 worth of debt , all of it spent on the other woman . |
| 11 | York 's renaissance under Ward is the work of a team costing just Pounds 50,000 — all of it spent on striker Paul Barnes , signed during the close-season from Stoke . |
| 12 | All that destructive force — and all of it directed towards her . |
| 13 | Catacombs , churches , ancient ruins — all of it began blurring together . |
| 14 | But undeterred , he can still visualise the enormous potential of a bank that even last year managed to make record operating profits of £2 billion , only to see ‘ almost all of it swept away by debt provisions ’ . |
| 15 | In its place is compacted human thought — a dense mass of paper , some of it in files , some of it in envelopes and parcels , a lot of it loose , all of it covered in typescript or print or handwriting . |
| 16 | They were good farms with plenty of water meadow along the river banks , all of it drowned in protection against the frosts . |
| 17 | In his life he had risen from being a poor farm boy to become the wealthy entrepreneurial head of a vast business conglomerate , all of it created by his own acumen , and had established a dynasty which still ranks high on the world 's ladder of wealth and social standing . |
| 18 | So this wealth of information — all of it updated much more regularly than you could expect through normal information channels — is greatly under-used . |
| 19 | By the time the first sharp feelings of his loss had begun to wear off - it would be very many years before all of it did so , and arguable that it ever did — other voices were beckoning . |
| 20 | The town was small and neat , typical of the towns of the area , almost all of it built around the central square , which was shaded by high trees . |
| 21 | But Trevelyan has brought in over a hundred thousand pounds ’ worth of Indian corn from America , all of it held in the Commissariat depots . |
| 22 | The notes , if not all the articulation , may be reconstructed from the Oeuvres complètes ( illus.4 ) by taking the two violin parts and bass , and ignoring the rest ignoring , that is , the newly composed viola line , the first bassoon ( much but not all of it derived from the viola ) , both the oboe parts and those passages where flutes double the violins at the octave . |
| 23 | All of it confused , sleep-muddled in his brain . |
| 24 | There are thousands of metres of film of eruptions and hectares of accounts in newspapers and books , almost all of it devoted to the ‘ human interest ’ situations that arise whenever natural events interrupt the pattern of human life . |
| 25 | She is a small , pious , affectionate girl of sharp intelligence , all of it devoted to the cherishing and advancement of her friends . |
| 26 | John Delaney knew now that all along it had been hunting them , that it was still hunting them , waiting for the right moment to pick them off at will , one at a time . |
| 27 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 28 | They had brought in some greasy foreigner as partner when all along it had been promised to him . |
| 29 | Elizabeth Jarvis said it was like St Paul 's Cathedral , miraculously saved while all around it lay in ruins . |
| 30 | And the plume of vapour was blue , but the blueness all around it bellied inwards to encyst it in peacock and midnight , and while it was busy she slashed at the palest of the azure walls with the tongue of her belt-buckle . |