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 .
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