Example sentences of "were all [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , ‘ They were all madly highly-sexed like the Starkadders ’ , she told an interviewer earlier in the decade , ‘ and I think a lot of the laughing at that kind of thing in Cold Comfort Farm comes from a ‘ distaste ’ … if you have it thrust on you from an early age , with divorces left , right and centre and people chasing each other round tables … well . ’ |
| 2 | This event brought together 30 practising women artists who were all actively involved in the production of paintings , photography , mixed media and sculpture . |
| 3 | We arrived at a Roman Catholic church where kind ladies gave us food and blankets , and soon we were all cosily asleep on the hard church floor . |
| 4 | The only suitable families they knew were the Trants , the Rices and the Hoares over at Castlegregory , and the sons of these families were all inextricably involved in the conflicts between the English Lord Deputy and the Irish earls . |
| 5 | In those days models were all very well in the wind tunnel for aerodynamic experiments but , damn it , who ever heard of a model material ? |
| 6 | The region 's new vice-chairman , John Jessop of British Gas , said : ‘ We were all very impressed with the scale of THORP and the built-in safety features . ’ |
| 7 | However , at the time they were the best and most modern cutters we had sailed on and we were all very proud of the fact . |
| 8 | They were all very alarmed by the prospect of substantial movements of people . |
| 9 | We had been privy to a re-enactment of the movements of a former working on the old harbour branch , and although not frightened we were all very puzzled by the strange sequence of events . |
| 10 | We started off just looking for a few cuddly toys and a few pounds to send them across to the folk in Roumania because we were all very touched by the need of the children there . |
| 11 | The Oxford , Cambridge , Fabian and Scottish surveys were all very sympathetic to the children , and tried hard to present their perspective . |
| 12 | The National Germanic League of Clerks ( 1893 ) , the Agrarian League ( 1893 ) , the Pan-German League ( 1886 ) , and the Naval League were all fully operational by the end of the decade . |