Example sentences of "he [be] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRIGHTON Mark Steel is a comic who should be returned to at irregular intervals : see him too often ( and he is all over London ) and you tire of his south London patter , but go back to his schoolroom lesson after a break from the circuit , or see him off his home patch and you 'll enjoy an exercise bookful of character face-pulling , energetic storytelling and witty , like-it-is observations . |
| 2 | and there 's less chance of them getting lost because if we send it over to Monkland and it comes back here , it goes to Doctor , you know how he 's all over the place , |
| 3 | He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off … |
| 4 | Well he 's all on his own . |
| 5 | And now here she was , and he was all at odds , wanting to go to her , knowing he could not . |
| 6 | A self-proclaimed poineer and the ‘ first man to go the whole hog ’ with his business , the Wild Boar Company , he was all for setting the strictest standards of breeds , offering a product aimed at the ‘ luxury end ’ of the market . |
| 7 | He was all for the idea , and we exchanged addresses . |
| 8 | He was all for sending Gladstone over to the ‘ bloody ’ Russians . ’ |
| 9 | At the symposium , ‘ Are You Prepared for IT ? ’ , hosted by Zenith Data Systems , Gates spoke out on object programming , saying he thought the concept was just another hype that extends far beyond the reality available today — having said that , he said to look out for Microsoft 's Object Linking and Embedding 2.0 ‘ during 1993 ’ , saying he was all for any technology that will enable the economical re-use of parts of programs . |
| 10 | Macmillan replied urbanely that he was all for the plan , adding : |
| 11 | He was all for England 's democracy and against any form of union with Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man , for which he seemed to have a particular dislike as " a nucleus of Celtic imagery " . |
| 12 | He was all over us last week , and now that he 's really needed , he 's nowhere to be found . |
| 13 | He was all in favour of anything that kept their costs down . |
| 14 | He was all in favour of that . |
| 15 | Before I even had a chance to talk to him he was all round the shop talking to everyone . |