Example sentences of "was all " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all there . |
| 2 | At school I did English and Art , and looked at theatre design in art — it was all pointing the same way , really . |
| 3 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 4 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 5 | The thin , over-dramatic shriek was all too familiar . |
| 6 | Peggy was all too aware of that . |
| 7 | It was all right for Annabel — she 's only six , and as long as she can feed sugar to the milkman 's horse every morning she 's happy . |
| 8 | Downstairs you could n't see her hair because it was all screwed up in a knot . |
| 9 | Rik Mayall 's name was all it took to persuade Ate de Jong to direct the film : ‘ I knew him from his work in THE YOUNG ONES . |
| 10 | I had managed to convince myself that , after a lifetime of teaching at university level , this was all going to be painfully easy . |
| 11 | ‘ This was all in London , right ? ’ |
| 12 | By 5.45pm it was all over . |
| 13 | After it had been moved a short distance away , the pilot was persuaded that the situation was all right and he accepted this , rather than face being unpopular for causing further delay . |
| 14 | That was all she knew about Lucy sexually . |
| 15 | Only last summer , years after it was all over and Astrid had found her stone cottage with roses round the door , golden/grey in a late summer orchard , she met Jay , and her eyes were green as the flames on ashwood . |
| 16 | His daughter Mary said it was all he was good for — using up fuel that others had cut . |
| 17 | It was all too premature . |
| 18 | ( It was Lawrence who ‘ blew my cover , ’ he said , on finding that Leonard was failing to attend Law School lectures , which was all the more concerning as he had no scholarship to go there , only his family 's financial backing . ) |
| 19 | The scenery was grim , the food was unappetising , fashion was all but non-existent ( he did buy a Burberry raincoat — his ‘ famous blue raincoat ’ — which he adorned till someone relieved him of it in New York 20 years later ) , the arts were struggling , almost moribund , despite the explosive qualities of Kingsley Amis , John Osborne , Colin Wilson , and Alan Sillitoe ; and the weather was atrocious . |
| 20 | It was all at my fingertips and I was only too pleased to be of some assistance , from whatever quarter the request came . |
| 21 | It was all in the file . |
| 22 | The result was all she intended — glamorous , enticing , unusual . |
| 23 | It was all he could do to stop . |
| 24 | ‘ Well at least Morocco are trying to score , ’ was all he replied . |
| 25 | It was all too late for the ILTF , however , which , in 1962 , announced that the first Federation Cup would take place at Queen 's Club in June 1963 . |
| 26 | It was all over in 60 minutes , thus confirming what everyone knew anyway — that Navratilova , at 34 , is still probably the best grass court player in the world . |
| 27 | While the others are assigned to carvings which were partially damaged David Esterly has to recreate something which was all but destroyed in the fire . |
| 28 | The age of the bucket-and-spade seaside special was all but dead by 1980 , so what filled the void ? |
| 29 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 30 | For ‘ the game ’ was one that everyone played , and that was all right so long as you took your losses without squealing . |