Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] all the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French also insisted that , until the treaty was ratified by all the member states , West Germany should remain a state under Allied occupation . |
| 2 | Jesus ' great commission was to go into all the world to make disciples . |
| 3 | let me read those verses again , he says my flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill , and my flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth , there was no one to search or seek for them . |
| 4 | Well the people that done it did n't get caught but the corridor on which it happened was fined for all the equipment . |
| 5 | Indeed , at one time the Malayan Angel argenteus was included in all the genus Psettias . |
| 6 | The authenticity of the film was stressed in all the publicity and much was made of the fact that not only had the trial scenes been shot at the same time as the judge was carrying out the Detroit sentences but the film actually used his own words . |
| 7 | then I was looking at all the garden stuff , and and I thought well , start by the , and I thought I 'm doing a Joey ! |
| 8 | I was looking in all the shop windows , at the reflections . |
| 9 | Voluntary contributions to the ‘ poor boxes ’ in the parish churches proved less and less adequate to maintain those in need , and from time to time a tax , or rate , was levied on all the property in the parish ; the proceeds were then used by the churchwardens and by ‘ overseers of the poor ’ to support the old , the sick and orphans , to provide work for the able-bodied poor , and accommodation for the homeless . |
| 10 | In addition , a hand-out was written for all the nursing , medical and reception staff and another for the patients , setting out the proposed procedure for referral to the ENP . |
| 11 | To those for whom gas was out of the question , and candles or lamps were expensive luxuries , firelight was often the single source of light as well as heat , as George Eliot notes in Adam Bede : ‘ It was a pretty scene in the red fire-light : for there were no candles ; why should there be , when the fire was so bright , and was reflected from all the pewter and the polished oak ? ’ |
| 12 | Within ten years his plan , simple and eminently sensible , was agreed by all the railway companies and — shortly afterwards , and to all intents and purposes — by all the states . |
| 13 | Although Fred pretended to be surprised at my earnings I felt sure he knew what was going on all the time . |
| 14 | The 800 bp fragment which was observed in all the cell types analyzed represents mRNA in which AD1 was spliced out . |
| 15 | Baby Donald was yelling with all the force of his lungs . |
| 16 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 17 | well they were they was rolling in all the muck in the farmyard but they , they went to the pies just put their noses round them and turned them over and then they s and true as god made little apples they started walking round these pies and they left them and they were still there when we went away . |
| 18 | A judgment that could never be applied to either the Edgar Broughton Band or The Deviants , two fabulously freaky bands whose message was delivered with all the subtlety of a Molotov cocktail . |
| 19 | My guns were inspected and a statement was taken from all the crew and I was released , as I said many times later , " without prejudice " , but darkly adding " subject to re-arrest " . |
| 20 | In 1991 Boucher knocked Laing out in nine rounds but was ignored by all the world champions and is still being avoided . |
| 21 | The man who spoke was enough like the priest in face and build to indicate their relationship , but , instead of the severe black habit and tonsured head which proclaimed the cleric to be of the Benedictine order , he was dressed in all the splendour of a prosperous baron . |
| 22 | I was thinking of all the work I needed to do on Masquerade ; all the painstaking hours of sawing and planing and caulking and rigging . |
| 23 | The report was published for all the world to take note — a case illustrating why aircraft accident reports should always be published if it is at all possible . |
| 24 | The greatest respect was paid by all the family to his opinions on all subjects from farming to knotty points of theology . |