Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] all [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you 're all dressed up to the nines ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Specially as you 're all fixed up with Harry . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're all strung out like a tight wire . |
| 4 | Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog ! |
| 5 | ‘ When I first met you , in that bar , you were all cut out round the edges , like something out of a cereal packet that does n't stand up when you 've made it . ’ |
| 6 | We are all made up of what we have achieved in the past , the character we have developed , our strong points , our weaknesses . |
| 7 | The latest sub-atomic theories , for example , say that we are all made up of infinitely thin pieces of string which may exist in ten dimensions . |
| 8 | Our jolly attendant makes one more and final round , checking that we are all tucked in for the night . |
| 9 | We are all set up for the perfect ending for George to live in peace while Lennie , tended the rabbits , but somehow the author still made it seem impossible as there was always trouble brewing for them . |
| 10 | So we are all set up with booze , sex , unrequited love , thoughts of separation , ambiguous sexual status , a grand piano for the singing of old songs and a sniffy Law dispensing trifle with a gimlet stare . |
| 11 | Companion stuff from the new album — a gloriously lolloping ‘ Step It Up ’ , the pre-packed next single ‘ Ground Level ’ — rubs slick shoulder with pre-acceptance vintage like ‘ Lost In Music ’ , and the show goes on and on until people are dripping off the walls , and the last kind of urban excitement we need is a joke security alert on Charing Cross Road , which means we are all shepherded out of the Marquee 's tradesmen 's entrances like nuisances , sticking to each other and sapped of claustrophobic dancenergy . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're all made out of dust , are n't we ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We 're all fed up with him , and we 're disappointed with the League and players ' union . |
| 14 | I mean I think it 's wor as far as I 'm concerned I 'm g w I think we 're all getting out of it what we want |
| 15 | I mean , we 're all pissed off with each other . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ OK , the shooting 's stopped and we 're all parked up outside the Butcher Building . |
| 17 | Wait till I 've cut it and we 're all sat down with a piece , and I 'll tell you a story . |
| 18 | We 're all running down to the river like you said , they may not find us down there . |
| 19 | But that 's what we 're all brought up to be . |
| 20 | We 're all going out on Saturday night — ‘ |
| 21 | And we 're all going out on the field going come on , very good , we 're gon na beat your team , and we got our man and we scored about seven tries in the first three minutes . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're all going out for a meal . |
| 23 | we 're all going out for a drink with yourselves I think . |
| 24 | And two friends are , we 're all going out for a a Christmas meal like , so |
| 25 | to come , come up on a Wednesday we 're all going out for a |
| 26 | But the clash everyone was waiting for was the re-match of the Bass Irish cup final between the writers of Bangor 's A Close Shave and the two Ards fanzines We 're All Going Down To Davy Lee 's and The Butcher 's Apron . |
| 27 | We were all flung on to the roof . |
| 28 | We were all set up for it in Britain : a Labour government anti-nuclear movement swinging along on borrowed money with Carnaby Street and the Beatles — they were going to bring World Peace all by themselves — fat dumb and happy . |
| 29 | We were all pressed back into our seats . |
| 30 | At breakfast she occasionally annoyed us by reeling off lists of groceries we were all to pick up during the day and bring home in time for dinner . |