Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] all [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She was all right in the wood , ’ said Lee . |
2 | The policeman 's job was to count the knobs and report that they were all right in the morning . |
3 | It was all downhill to the causeway , and the turf was smooth . |
4 | He had thought it was all over for the Bookman and that the acid had not worked . |
5 | THEY thought it was all over at the BBC 21 years ago when they switched off the most famous football commentating voice of all , Kenneth Wolstenholme . |
6 | it was all over at the start of the second half … it took Millwall just 17 seconds and ten touches to win the game … |
7 | The collapse of the Empire in 1814 and the fall of Napoleon I brought about a dispersal of the Imperial House and although the return of Napoleon from Elba in 1815 led to a restoration of the family fortunes , it was all over in the Hundred Days . |
8 | It was all over in the 10th . |
9 | Even with more time lost , it was all over before the last hour . |
10 | Like when I had to carry the garbage out — because of my bad back , the girls helped me with my duty and it was all right with the counsellors because of my back — it was n't special treatment . |
11 | And finally ... it was all right on the night |
12 | It was all right for the likes of May and Izzy , always shouting and laughing and making her cry . |
13 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
14 | It was all right for the active partner , but how did the other fellow get his satisfaction . |
15 | He said it was all right for the pot to come off and for him to walk on the injured foot . |
16 | But it was all right in the end . |
17 | It was all there on the page , dissected for her . |
18 | Thérèse says it was all there in the letters she got back from the convent . |
19 | It was all there in the lofty , superior look he threw her . |
20 | It was all there in the way , in Czech , he called the dog off ; as the dog immediately obeyed , let go of her and went to his master 's side , the man , his charm of yesterday nowhere to be seen , blasted her in English with an angry , ‘ Have n't you any sense ? ’ |
21 | It was all there in the sharp and arrogant , ‘ You have a particular interest in my secretary ? ’ with which he flattened her . |
22 | But apparently it was all out of the scientists ' control . |
23 | It was all out of the hole-in-the-wall this evening . |
24 | She was anxious to see him the moment he arrived , and make sure he was all right after the trauma of the interview with the insurance investigator . |
25 | It lasted , like that with Elizabeth , for over a quarter of a century , though the five meetings between us were all over by the autumn of 1947 . |