Example sentences of "[verb] everything at " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
| 2 | If you can not do everything at once , or want to start making staged improvements , either concentrate on your first priorities ( leaving space for the next stages ) or your worst problems-depending on whether you are planning a first-time kitchen or updating an existing one . |
| 3 | He risked everything at the short 15th after his five-iron tee shot finished among the rocks . |
| 4 | Peters said : ‘ They threw everything at us and got nothing , whereas our small breaks to their half did produce points . |
| 5 | Southend threw everything at Middlesbrough in the ten-man battle . |
| 6 | It must save you a lot of time being a spirit and seeing everything at once . |
| 7 | It could be ‘ neo-Stalinism ’ ( refusing to say Russia was a capitalist country ) ; ‘ Pabloite revisionism ’ ( deciding to join the Labour Party secretly ) ; ‘ tailism ’ ( waiting for trade unions to organize strikes rather than getting on with it yourself ) ; ‘ liquidationism ’ ( dissolving the sect into a larger movement , hoping that its ideas will catch on ) ; ‘ parliamentary cretinism ’ ( advising people to vote Labour ) ; ‘ stageism ’ ( not demanding everything at once ) ; or even ‘ centreism ’ ( expressing a liking for Tony Benn ) . |
| 8 | So , ’ he continued , ‘ if you had a tall skyscraper , say , with people living at the top , they will think everything at the bottom has shrunk — been squashed down — compared to normal . ’ |
| 9 | We were therefore very disappointed when Ms de Jonghe found she had to cancel everything at practically the last minute . |
| 10 | ‘ We thought that they would throw everything at us from the start , ’ said Andy Probert , 38 , the Cambridge cox — and so it proved . |
| 11 | And at times of stress he attempted to do everything at once . |
| 12 | Then suddenly you want to do everything at once — things you do n't touch all year must be done now . |
| 13 | ‘ But the thrust of our approach is to start at home , focusing on one thing at a time rather than confusing ourselves by trying to do everything at once — which is a major reason why 85 per cent of organisations trying to do something in this area fail to get it right . |
| 14 | At Billy Graham 's 1961 Maine Road Stadium Crusade , low-level , multi-speaker systems meant that music from choir and instruments was travelling around the stadium electronically and then being ‘ chased ’ by the real sound , with the result that everyone heard everything at least twice . |
| 15 | I heard everything at the Opera and Musikverein . |
| 16 | A heater/stat in this tank keeps everything at 80°F , matching the parents ' tank , and aeration distributes the temperature evenly . |
| 17 | He was a man who prided himself on having everything at his fingertips , but he had not counted on Berdichev 's directness . |
| 18 | Don ? t expect to understand everything at a first reading . |
| 19 | Obviously you can not expect to understand everything at once . |
| 20 | Maggie shot to her feet and stared at him in astonishment , and at that moment Felipe de Santis walked past the room , his dark eyes taking everything at one swift glance — Mitch obviously just leaving , Maggie 's suddenly flushed face and wide eyes and the slightly rumpled bed where she had rested to talk to Mitch . |
| 21 | Just days before the sale , Allied bumped up their prices by a quarter and then offered everything at ‘ 25 per cent off ’ . |
| 22 | I ca n't change everything at this stage . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I keep everything at home — I file them there , on my own system , ’ said Mr Kronweiser eagerly . |
| 24 | 17.7 Children can not be expected to learn everything at once . |
| 25 | She remembered everything at once then , in one big bright colourful blurt of sound and light and music and immensely accelerated action . |
| 26 | And I think the regret comes because they wanted everything … but you ca n't expect to have everything at once . ’ |
| 27 | Do not fix anything so low over a sofa that people can knock their heads on it when getting up or even leaning back ; all the same , try to place everything at a reasonably flexible eye level . |
| 28 | He did everything at breakneck speed and was insatiably sociable , always turning up when Jane was particularly busy , crashing into the room and asking jauntily : ‘ What 's everyone doing ? ’ |
| 29 | Mould was a frenzied , energetic builder and did everything at a manic speed . |
| 30 | If you will , it 's the aerial equivalent to a Mk 1 Ford Escort 1100 — does everything at about six out of ten , except in edge-of-the-envelope handling , where it scores eleven . |