Example sentences of "they were all [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said ooh , he said there was some American students here last week and they were all swimming in there and the man came along with this thing and they bo they were all sat on the middle lo middle of there with their feet dangling in the water splashing away , he said I was dragging this down and this six footer came out , I said , and then they were he said , you 've never seen anybody run so fast in your life like they go |
| 2 | They were all startled by his reaction . |
| 3 | They were all startled by the bluntness with which Bigwig went to the point . |
| 4 | They were all staying in this Florida hotel … where postman Keith Thompson was shot dead after he refused to hand over his money to muggers . |
| 5 | At their trial , in which Mathews was the principal prosecution witness , they were all sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation they serve not less than twenty years . |
| 6 | The three quartets in the programme are all among the greatest and they were all composed in Vienna within forty years — Haydn ( 1788 ) , Beethoven ( 1807 ) , Schubert ( 1826 ) . |
| 7 | They were all replaced with Lancasters , which were to prove the backbone of the whole RAF heavy bomber force . |
| 8 | Even if they were all trying like mad , a lot of them would n't get jobs . |
| 9 | I found that Mrs Knelle regarded the Ascendancy as comic dodos , and took for granted that they were all opposed to Home Rule . |
| 10 | They broke down so often and so grievously that they were all withdrawn from service within three years . |
| 11 | I can not imagine what they were all thinking about . |
| 12 | They were all looking at me : Richard frowning ; Flora blind in dark glasses . |
| 13 | During the service , Peter was agreeably conscious that they were all looking at him as he sat in splendid isolation in one of the front pews . |
| 14 | But I slowly became aware that they were all looking at me — just the time that sergia became aware of the direction of my gaze . |
| 15 | They were all looking for Manyara . |
| 16 | And they were all looking for me . |
| 17 | ‘ They were all looking round the screen saying they had not seen the bum of anyone famous before , ’ he recalls . |
| 18 | Unfortunately the exertions of Peachtree proved too much for the four and they were all defeated by the quarter-final stage . |
| 19 | You had to buy your own stuff , I bought a pair of thigh boots and they were all made with leather and he and I used to put neat's-foot oil on them and I could roll them down just like a b just like a boot . |
| 20 | They were all made of large , irregularly cut stone blocks and of simple cruciform structure . |
| 21 | But the Home Secretary 's fraudulent attempt to imply that they were all destined for Heathrow does him no credit and should cause him shame . |
| 22 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |
| 23 | Judging by their recent performances , they were all living on their memories . |
| 24 | They were all crushed against one another — Paddy at her side now . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes , when there are three thousand people hanging on every note , I find myself wishing they were all stood at the bar and facing the other way . |
| 26 | Six tens being sixty and they were all prepared in a master schedule , you 'd write down twelve o'clock , twelve ten , twelve twenty , erm that sort of thing you see |
| 27 | They were all situated on the dock and the is now what they call the |
| 28 | After the war , many of the type served for a brief period with RCN reservist units until they were all struck off charge in 1947 . |
| 29 | They were all slumped in the shade of the vehicles , blurred by patches of cigarette smoke . |
| 30 | Much to their surprise , when it was still pitch dark they were all disturbed by lights being turned on , the slamming of car doors , and their owners rushing around and shouting to each other with the raised voices of excitement and hurry . |