Example sentences of "all [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 After dinner , they were all marched out to the back garden , which was similar to the front , where they could walk about or play catch ball , but were not allowed to stand and talk to each other .
2 Our jolly attendant makes one more and final round , checking that we are all tucked in for the night .
3 Soon the twins and their brunettes and various glamorous hangers-on were all stripped off round the pool .
4 We were all caught up in the shock and wondered what the significance was .
5 ‘ OK , the shooting 's stopped and we 're all parked up outside the Butcher Building .
6 It all added up to a premonition of tragedy for Charles .
7 It all added up to a hotel bedroom .
8 Suddenly , Constance realised that she actually was very tired — but not too tired to notice with pleasure the warm wood panelling , the Turkey-red stair carpet and the clean smell of polish which all added up to an atmosphere of richness and opulence quite foreign to her mother 's sparse house in Northumberland .
9 It all added up to an organisation , but what organisation ?
10 It all added up to the fact that below Silas 's cool exterior there was warmth and compassion for others .
11 It 's the type of client , life assurance clients are the type of client where the commission 's all come out in the first four years .
12 he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed .
13 The major investigations of the early 1970s were all carried out with the hope of providing some suggestions for improvements to be applied in automated catalogues .
14 Wait till I 've cut it and we 're all sat down with a piece , and I 'll tell you a story .
15 They are all made up of the same shapes-triangles , squares and rectangles .
16 They were all made up as a batch were n't they ?
17 They are all pumped up at the moment .
18 Her face is all twisted up like a snarl .
19 Whether it is the Lusitania steaming up the Irish coast towards her doom or a couple of one-legged dwarfs drinking in a bar in Paris , the processes of imagination in the form of characters , clothes , setting , and action are all clawed out of the mind .
20 There is no shortage of information on this and the more general tensions between NATO and the Warsaw Pact , which all dated back to the immediate aftermath of the Second World War , when crisis succeeded crisis : Greece , Berlin , Korea , Cuba , Viet Nam , the Horn of Africa , Angola , Central America , Afghanistan .
21 I saw a live TV transmission of Il trovatore from the Metropolitan in New York a few weeks ago that can only have confirmed a lot of people 's worst prejudices about opera — dull production , dull filming , all wrapped round with a certain amount of superstar hype .
22 During July Albrecht , Beer , Lotze , Maier-Witt , Sternebeck and Viett were all handed over to the West German authorities ; Seckendorff-Gudent was released after allegations against him were dropped .
23 The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice .
24 Companion stuff from the new album — a gloriously lolloping ‘ Step It Up ’ , the pre-packed next single ‘ Ground Level ’ — rubs slick shoulder with pre-acceptance vintage like ‘ Lost In Music ’ , and the show goes on and on until people are dripping off the walls , and the last kind of urban excitement we need is a joke security alert on Charing Cross Road , which means we are all shepherded out of the Marquee 's tradesmen 's entrances like nuisances , sticking to each other and sapped of claustrophobic dancenergy .
25 We were all flung on to the roof .
26 How I know this thing is all tied up with the decision to spy on him .
27 Again it 's part of the nervousness yeah I 'm gon na put me notes down there and I 'm not gon na hold them I you know I do n't want to be anywhere away from them so it 's all tied up with the preparation as well .
28 The government 's own team have recognised that morale in teaching is low and that the position this year is significantly worse than last , yet the government have for this year ignored the findings of that particular report and it 's all tied up with the whole issue of pay , workload etc ..
29 Well , I got myself all tied up between the the who said what and me which said where and
30 It 's all tied up in the shops . ’
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