Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] all around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both men had moved up in the world recently and the evidence of their new wealth was all around them in the curtains , the carpets , the original paintings and the quality of the ornaments and effects . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't use drugs myself , but I grew up in the South Bronx where heroin use was all around me . |
| 3 | In November he gave an address at the Mary Institute ; the ghosts of the past were all around him as he spoke of the door into the schoolyard , the corridors , the whisperings of his enclosed childhood world . |
| 4 | The ghosts of love were all around her , holding her somehow . |
| 5 | Its message was all around him . |
| 6 | The sky was all around them , orange and crimson , passionate and dangerous . |
| 7 | Pool was all around them . |
| 8 | If that was so , Corbett thought , then sin was all around him . |