Example sentences of "[verb] they [be] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't know they were all scientists . |
| 2 | I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | You may have noticed they are all tree oils ! |
| 4 | Let's assume they 're all self sufficient , the world market essentially becomes a residual market , it 's not the market place where everyone goes any longer , it 's the market where just a few people will go . |
| 5 | You know they 're all things that you , they d expect you to know . |
| 6 | but to feel sorry for women and put their view forward because , I mean , you still the situation of a Friday when men go down to the pub and you know they 're all Jack the Lad ! |
| 7 | But I suppose they 're all boys really , I mean are all boys like this really ? |
| 8 | Some sort of coven or a secret society , and I believe they are all party to it . |
| 9 | I am not saying they 're all pussycats but if you love and respect them , they will return those qualities tenfold . |
| 10 | I mean they 're all history . |
| 11 | They should all be the same , let's put them together anyway , even if they 're not , we should put them together because erm I mean they 're all part of the same company anyway . |
| 12 | Well there 's Lewis and Pringle and Reeve and Defreites and Tuftnot , I mean they 're all bowlers |
| 13 | Roy , the skinhead guitarist , puts it this way : — ‘ All skins are for the flag but that does n't mean they 're all NF or British Movement . |
| 14 | Although they had no special interest in meteorites , the geologists collected the specimens and shipped them to Japan , assuming they were all pieces from a single meteorite shower . |
| 15 | Well he knew they were all slate quarry workers , and that 's how he went on to them . |
| 16 | He knew they were all slate quarry workers and they were prepared to work the slate again . |
| 17 | So I thought they were all part of a jokey game . |
| 18 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 19 | I think they 're all ones . |
| 20 | In my attitude , you know , I , I think you know I think they 're all prats and stuff and I do n't joke around like that . |
| 21 | And that I think they 're all tights there . |
| 22 | ‘ Some were even intimidated by the idea of interviewing a former sergeant-major because they seemed to think they were all Windsor Davies figures . ’ |
| 23 | Dot said they were all Al and tip-top . |
| 24 | And on the fourth floor the management work , and I have to say they are all men , that 's true . |
| 25 | Sometimes I wish they was all youngsters again , at least yer could put 'em ter bed an' know where they all were . ’ |