Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] all [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I had the epidural injection in the base of my spine and then I was all rigged up to a machine so the nurses could monitor the baby 's movements .
2 Except that I was all caught up in it , the romance and everything and the sunshine .
3 I mean , she was all kitted out in breeches and boots and he surely did n't think he had a likely candidate for a signature ? ’
4 It was all tied up with the rigid censorship restrictions of the 1940s .
5 ‘ And I reckon it was all tied up with what happened to my mother . ’
6 Downstairs you could n't see her hair because it was all screwed up in a knot .
7 It was all locked up inside me , all my sadness . "
8 It was all gone in about one minute fifty seconds .
9 ‘ But we used to take a lot o' pride in the hay , and it was all trussed up with — good tradesmen trussed it up , you know .
10 It was all set up for us on Tuesday night , yet we went out to their only effort on goal .
11 I do n't know , Victorine said : it was all pulled down from one day to the next , and you know it happened during the war , everything was topsy-turvy then .
12 I went back to Ralemberg 's house but it was all sealed up like a tomb so I left it alone .
13 We gazed enraptured at the city of Bath from the train as it drew in to the station — it was all laid out on the slopes of Lansdown like an aerial map of a moon landscape .
14 It was all wrapped up in a knotted kerchief .
15 For — contrary to the legend that it was all thought through in a day — this theory was worked out in three main stages over the next half year .
16 It was all jumbled up in his own mind .
17 It was all put together with really good attention to detail .
18 It was all sorted out after some confusion and a lot of ill-feeling ; the BMW people moved their boat forward so cars and trailers could get past it to the road .
19 Perhaps it was all drowned out by the howling dogs which are such a feature of the district .
20 He was all curled up in the gutter , naked .
21 But the next thing we knew he was all kitted out in a blue and white sailor suit , smelling sweetly of baby lotion and with not a wet patch to be seen .
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