Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] all [verb] [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 getting out of hand . |
| 8 | It was all locked up inside me , all my sadness . " |
| 9 | It was all gone in about one minute fifty seconds . |
| 10 | I had tried to ignore the disappearance of my abdominal muscles , the sagging of my pectorals , but it was all coming home to me now . |
| 11 | No doubt she had spoken English with Russell and it was all coming back to her . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It was all set up for us on Tuesday night , yet we went out to their only effort on goal . |
| 14 | By now it was all adding up to one conclusion . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I went back to Ralemberg 's house but it was all sealed up like a tomb so I left it alone . |
| 17 | We guessed what it was all leading up to but the exact date was a very well kept secret . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was all wrapped up in a knotted kerchief . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was all jumbled up in his own mind . |
| 22 | It was all put together with really good attention to detail . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was all drowned out by the howling dogs which are such a feature of the district . |
| 25 | He was all curled up in the gutter , naked . |
| 26 | 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 . |