Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] all [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This included having to study rod sizes , materials and changes in the amounts of electrical current to see how the effect depended on these , which was all for the future . |
| 2 | Even the photograph , she had to admit , was a good one : Hilda would never look attractive , Viola thought to herself , but at least she looked dignified , which was all to the good . |
| 3 | It 's a little lad and I I looked through a window , I could see Judith holding this baby but you had to walk round to get to her and I knew before you 'd got there and you were all over the moon about this little baby and everything |
| 4 | Our Rally was just super — more people than before — But what they did n't know was that they had a treat in store : The National Display Team came for the afternoon To show their special item — we were all over the moon ! |
| 5 | Anyhow , the next morning I got up they were all over the deck , they crawled out of the bloody bucket . |
| 6 | They were all over the place , trying to lean on you , trying to make out that they cared about what happened to you . |
| 7 | They were all over the place , trying to lean on you , trying to make out that they cared about what happened to you . |
| 8 | ‘ They were all over the place , Dad said . |
| 9 | One of the other things about those two that were wrong was that they rambled , they were all over the place , there was no conciseness , no clarity to them . |
| 10 | They were all over the walls and ceiling . |
| 11 | They three boys — and Sara — was all brought up at Trebyan and they was all at the village school . |
| 12 | ‘ When it was all over the papers I feared that when I went shopping people would abuse me , spit at me . |
| 13 | The afterdeck — of course those boats were n't so big as they are now — all where I laid , it was all over the deck . |
| 14 | Next day it was all over the school . |
| 15 | I tell you how bad our one was , it was all over the road , this , the , the river line |
| 16 | The earth — it was all over the place — as if something had broken through . |
| 17 | Suddenly it was all over the place . |
| 18 | It was all over the place . |
| 19 | It was all over the place . |
| 20 | It was all about the Scum , you would think they had already won the league the way the commentators were describing the display Saturday . |
| 21 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 22 | He really was a most exceptionally handsome man , but she knew from experience that it was all on the surface . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , it was all on the radio . ’ |
| 24 | Still , if he wanted to formally emphasise the gulf between them , it was all to the good . |
| 25 | Well , it was all to the good ; after he 'd finished skiing for the day they 'd return to the cottage , and she 'd set out for home . |
| 26 | It was all off the top of my head . |
| 27 | The fact that it was all within the rules was immaterial . |
| 28 | No doubt the publishers would claim that it was all in the pursuit of the greater truth , in the way that the slimy tabloids and the unspeakable Sunday Times do when they are parading some particularly unpleasant piece of gossip . |
| 29 | I did n't know what it was all about till I got there and one of them said ‘ You may recognise this , ’ and it was all in the style of Camberwick Green . |
| 30 | But when I saw Bullitt , I thought , ‘ This was n't the script either , it was all in the director 's head . ’ |