Example sentences of "were all [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We were all fatigued enough for the rail road from Southampton is new and rough . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's that good to see you , Master Harry , ’ she said when at last they were all seated comfortably round the dining-table . |
| 4 | We were all flung on to the roof . |
| 5 | Soon the twins and their brunettes and various glamorous hangers-on were all stripped off round the pool . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were all thrown forward in the same direction . |
| 10 | There was a screech of brakes and then we were all thrown forward in the coach . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We were all lined up on the field at Peobresanskoe … the Winter Palace . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We were all caught up in the shock and wondered what the significance was . |