Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] all [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In it were tucked all manner of bills , receipts and postcards bearing on the activities of the club . |
| 2 | An easy evening awaited him ; both he and Daalny were excused all service , for Rémy was to dine with the abbot and the earl , the first fruits of his campaign in search of place and status . |
| 3 | The party was held in the canteen , bedecked in decorations with many activities , that ensured the children were occupied all afternoon . |
| 4 | On a calm sunny day plenty of undersized fish were caught all day . |
| 5 | The streets were thronged all day with compulsive shoppers , intermittently spattered with hard-driven rain and tinted by the glow of festive lighting . |
| 6 | Customs units throughout the north were involved all weekend in a patrol , interception and monitoring exercise called Operation Awake . |
| 7 | Its jangly ‘ little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheeeeese ’ song was heard all summer long , and we used to find its nest among the ryegrass . |
| 8 | His substitute and colleague , ensured that the dance floor was filled all night with dancers young and not so young enjoying a varied programme , leaving the floor reluctantly at 12.30am . |
| 9 | Whenever possible I try to get a Lecture Theatre , erm but I was told it was booked all day today we were originally in presentation room then came , so be grateful we 're in the Board Room . |
| 10 | The alluvial soil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer . |
| 11 | In Stroud , the minister of the Old Meeting House in 1897 was promised all revenue from seat rents , all weekly offerings and £75 or a total of £180 p.a . |
| 12 | He was gone all day , and come back late for supper . ’ |
| 13 | And it hu go And it was there and it was left all night , and next day erm the man came back again and he cut it down the back with a big saw , and divided it up and then it was taken to the house where it was er up and then salted in a big barrel . |
| 14 | We 're lucky that I do n't have a plastic bubble encasing me , the weather was tested all night , I think . |
| 15 | Ms Gibson claimed she tried to telephone when she arrived in Marbella at the beginning of the month but could not get through because her friend 's number was engaged all night . |