Example sentences of "all [prep] [art] [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we pushed her all round the pool but then we bought her a ring , just a ring nice little one an she 's fine in that . |
| 2 | She 'd spread my business all round the neighbourhood but she 'd lend a hand without grudging it . ’ |
| 3 | Then she noticed the lights going on all over the school but thought no more about it . |
| 4 | I 've tried seventy-one different doctors all over the country but none of them know how to help . |
| 5 | We already have about 60 supporters who use this facility not only from all over the country but from places such as New Zealand , Australia , Canada , the USA , Israel , Sweden , Norway , Denmark , Germany and Ireland . |
| 6 | The criterion also makes a claim about localization ; the changes can not be all over the brain but must be concentrated to some specific region . |
| 7 | Half the visitors were from societies all over the North but the other half were people who came out of interest and curiosity . ’ |
| 8 | The teaching faculties and administrative offices are scattered all over the city but , forming a wonderful backdrop to King 's Parade , stands the Senate House . |
| 9 | Less pure grades of graphite were discovered all over the world but none had the structure of the Borrowdale type . |
| 10 | The dreaded gardeners ' garters , of Phalaris arundinacea ‘ Picta ’ manages to creep all over the place but is far too lovely a plant to write off just for that reason . |
| 11 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 12 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 13 | We 've been all over the place but Blackpool 's my favourite . |
| 14 | There were lights on all over the house but no one seemed in a hurry to answer the door . |
| 15 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |