Example sentences of "[n mass] were all [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once pounds and deutschmarks and francs and lira were all competing against each other in every high street , their exchange rates would always reflect what each currency could actually buy . |
| 2 | Even though it was against Danzig law , these people were all sent to the Reich , presumably to concentration camps . |
| 3 | And they were all relaxing and I was playing the piano and people were all gathered round saying , ‘ You hit it with the poker , and I 'll lock the lid ’ — but somebody came on and said ‘ This girl is marvellous , give her a job . ’ |
| 4 | The inhabitants were on the upper floors calling for help but , before anything could be done for them , the houses disintegrated and the people were all lost in the flood . |
| 5 | These people were all robbed of a secure future by Robert Maxwell . |
| 6 | Animals , birds , insects , people were all pulled into the joke of life . |
| 7 | He may have shared in the Puritan tendency of Cranbrook ; his published works were all printed for the London theological bookseller , Philemon Stephens , and produced in the early 1650s , at a time when publication in both the learned languages and the vernacular greatly increased . |
| 8 | A very fine plant , the blackthorn , good for almost anything that ailed a man 's insides , providing bud and flower and bitter black fruit were all taken at their best . |