Example sentences of "be all [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're all strung out like a tight wire . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you 're all dressed up to the nines ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ OK , the shooting 's stopped and we 're all parked up outside the Butcher Building . |
| 4 | Wait till I 've cut it and we 're all sat down with a piece , and I 'll tell you a story . |
| 5 | They 're all weighed out with the saddle , weight cloths . |
| 6 | They are all pumped up at the moment . |
| 7 | The Book of Earth , the cornucopia of all the tiny books that go to make up The Book of Languages and even more disconcertingly , The Book of Mirrors , are all locked up in a glass case . |
| 8 | These are all stamped out with a huge press and dies like pastry cutters , in a dark vault in our street , by an old man who cuts from one skin first the back of a large rucksack , then a couple of handbag sides , and eventually bits of miniature hanging purses , like a thrifty housewife making tarts . |
| 9 | Whether it is the Lusitania steaming up the Irish coast towards her doom or a couple of one-legged dwarfs drinking in a bar in Paris , the processes of imagination in the form of characters , clothes , setting , and action are all clawed out of the mind . |
| 10 | They are all made up of the same shapes-triangles , squares and rectangles . |
| 11 | Our jolly attendant makes one more and final round , checking that we are all tucked in for the night . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After dinner , they were all marched out to the back garden , which was similar to the front , where they could walk about or play catch ball , but were not allowed to stand and talk to each other . |
| 14 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 15 | We were all flung on to the roof . |
| 16 | Soon the twins and their brunettes and various glamorous hangers-on were all stripped off round the pool . |
| 17 | Thus law , religion and mortality were all bound up in the imperial title and role , and any offence against the Emperor and his law was an offence directly against God . |
| 18 | They were all made up as a batch were n't they ? |
| 19 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 20 | During July Albrecht , Beer , Lotze , Maier-Witt , Sternebeck and Viett were all handed over to the West German authorities ; Seckendorff-Gudent was released after allegations against him were dropped . |
| 21 | Bruin many years later became the CO of No 84 Squadron in Greece — that is before we were all thrown out by the Germans and , let me say at this stage , aided and abetted by a rather unmentionable faction of Greek insurgence . |
| 22 | We were all lined up on the field at Peobresanskoe … the Winter Palace . |
| 23 | The major investigations of the early 1970s were all carried out with the hope of providing some suggestions for improvements to be applied in automated catalogues . |
| 24 | Worthington 's promotion to captain is the only good news this week for his club Sheffield Wednesday whose four England representatives — Andy Sinton , Chris Woods , Des Walker and Carlton Palmer — were all left out of the side to face Poland . |
| 25 | The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice . |
| 26 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 27 | We were all caught up in the shock and wondered what the significance was . |
| 28 | Her face is all twisted up like a snarl . |
| 29 | How I know this thing is all tied up with the decision to spy on him . |
| 30 | That suggests that life is all bound up with the penis , and has nothing to do with women . |