Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] all " in BNC.
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1 | At one of these the courtyard was flooded to represent a Venetian canal , tables were arranged all round , and Caruso sang to the guests as he floated in a gondola . |
2 | The prison , where some of the dissidents who opposed the Shahs rule were held by SAVAK , was painted up , the street were cleaned , pots of flowers were placed all along the main roads , birds in cages were hung from lamp posts , shopkeepers were given blue coats to wear . |
3 | Late last night , Tass reported that bursts of automatic fire were heard all around the city as ‘ several tens of thousands of people ’ gathered on Bucharest 's University Square . |
4 | Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room . |
5 | Your eyes were darting all over me , you could barely speak , your face was burning up with heat … ’ |
6 | Inhibitions were crashing all around her mind and heart and body . |
7 | Savings groups were formed all over the country and children ran their own campaigns in schools . |
8 | A short distance south of Trondheim we turned off down a side road to find a quiet spot for lunch , and in a grove of trees we saw redwing , fieldfare and chaffinch feeding young while siskin , blackcap , chiffchaff and willow warbler were singing all around us . |
9 | Their heat-patterns flared , as if they were blushing all over . |
10 | Fragments of wicker were scattered all around the room ; a small pile of them marked the drain . |
11 | During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles . |
12 | He loved Meli so much his ashes were scattered all over her grave |
13 | It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd . |
14 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
15 | The floor was covered by a large mosaic and I was really getting interested in some of the antics of the guys with beards who were scattered all over it , when I heard the tap-tap of her feet in the distance together with a heavier , more measured tread . |
16 | He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles . |
17 | On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central . |
18 | The shots revealed piles of debris on the seabed , sections of aircraft wreckage and personal effects were scattered all around . |
19 | Cars were parked all along the grass verge outside the church . |
20 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
21 | Doors were opening all along the corridor . |
22 | During the engagement A.A. bursts were exploding all round me , my port plane received a near miss which made a large hole and spattered the aircraft with splinters , which injured my left elbow . ’ |
23 | Many windows were shattered all over Edinburgh , including many at Donaldson 's — its most grievous loss was perhaps the oriel window in the chapel famed in Scotland as one of its earliest figure-stained windows . |
24 | Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change . |
25 | Jesus was aware of her touch even though the crowd were pressing all around him . |
26 | Not that he could have avoided his post-breakfast greeting — they were daubed all over South Africa 's team bus , parked far too handily outside their Leicester hotel . |
27 | We had a bit of a party in the Met Office that night , tearful farewells were said all over the place , and I departed the next morning with my kit and a bad headache , ready for whatever Fate had in store for me . |
28 | They were exhibited all over the world , and appeared in London at the Egyptian Hall in 1829 . |
29 | He felt guilty thoughts were written all over his face . |
30 | Reporters and photographers were swarming all over the sanatorium that day . |