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 .
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