Example sentences of "all [noun pl] were on " in BNC.
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1 | He looked up and all the way round ; all eyes were on him . |
2 | Behind him Grey Sombrero took a crashing fall at the Chair and broke his shoulder , but all eyes were on Crisp as he skipped over the water in front of the exhilarated spectators in the stands and swung out towards the second circuit . |
3 | ALL eyes were on Princess Anne when she competed in the Downlands Horse Trials at Woolmer Farm , Liphook , this week twenty years ago . |
4 | All eyes were on the catwalk and no one appeared to notice her , apart from a tall , grey-haired woman in the uniform of an atelier who moved towards her accusingly . |
5 | But as he took the field in the second Test against the West Indies , all eyes were on his behaviour . |
6 | All eyes were on the clock as the hands dragged themselves , with agonising slowness towards noon and time to leave for the airfield . |
7 | ALL eyes were on Princess Diana last night as she stepped out in this stunning wrap-around dress . |
8 | All eyes were on her naked body . |
9 | All eyes were on Tsu Ma now . |
10 | All eyes were on the T'ang . |
11 | The court was full of faces ; from every corner , all eyes were on one man — Fagin . |
12 | She glanced around with an innocent expression on her face , but all eyes were on the Doctor 's antics . |
13 | All eyes were on the old T'ang , noting his sudden frailty , the way his shoulders hunched forward at this latest calamity . |
14 | All eyes were on DeVore , shocked by the news . |
15 | As he feared , all eyes were on him . |
16 | All eyes were on Sir Thomas . |
17 | While all eyes were on the majestic bird above them , Tallis had seen the fluttering movement of a more sinister flock , in the high trees around the river . |
18 | All eyes were on him … |
19 | All eyes were on him , making it fairly obvious to Leith that his family never saw him hesitate over anything . |
20 | Prior to the reform of the market in October 1986 ( see below ) all transactions were on behalf of customers but subsequently there has been much trading between market makers as well as transactions with customers as the table shows . |
21 | All computations were on a DEC System 5000 computer running Ultrix Version 4.1 , Research Computing , The Hospital for Sick Children . |
22 | I mean the the green man was flashing so all lights were on red . |
23 | All patients were on maintenance treatment with sulphasalazine ( n=5 ) or olsalazine ( n=1 ) . |
24 | It would be nice if all children were on an adult 's knee , able to ask questions . |