Example sentences of "[was/were] all [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Harley , however , was all over the course , but his short game and especially his putting was brilliant . |
| 32 | Her massy hair , which she usually plaited at night or at least tied back , was all over the pillow and herself and him , covering his shoulders as well as her own . |
| 33 | But you were easy enough — your name was all over the papers recently . ’ |
| 34 | Within minutes my offer was all over the Docherty suite , and I became the source of hysterical laughter , ridicule and abuse . |
| 35 | Suddenly it was all over the place . |
| 36 | The afterdeck — of course those boats were n't so big as they are now — all where I laid , it was all over the deck . |
| 37 | Next day it was all over the school . |
| 38 | I tell you how bad our one was , it was all over the road , this , the , the river line |
| 39 | And the s Well you used to scrape some of it off because it was all over the |
| 40 | It was all over the place . |
| 41 | It was all over the place . |
| 42 | I was 13 and it was all about a family living with lions , starring my mother , Tippi Hedren , and stepfather Noel Marshall . |
| 43 | Take punk , it was all about a tight nucleus of bands who were all mates . |
| 44 | There was n't any huge promotion or hype about the whole workwear thing as some people are suggesting , because it was all about a few people picking up on it and then promoting it off their own back . |
| 45 | It was all about a woman who goes on holiday to a hotel in Switzerland . |
| 46 | Our supper in July 1981 , however , was all about the personal positions of other people . |
| 47 | Democracy , explained Mr McIverney , was all about the decisions of Parliament , and Parliament had granted his engineers permission to go on site . |
| 48 | Her talk was all about the recent fine weather , the record yield , the completion of harvest — all but the linseed . |
| 49 | The talk was all about the plague , which was coming back again into London . |
| 50 | It was all about the Scum , you would think they had already won the league the way the commentators were describing the display Saturday . |
| 51 | Miguel Rafaelo 's conversation was all about the village surgery , and the clinics he had set up there . |
| 52 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 53 | She was all for a bit of ducking and diving , that 's how everyone lived in her estimation , but from what she had gleaned recently about her sons , it was a completely different lifestyle they were after . |
| 54 | It was all for a purpose , of course ; little that I do is not , one way or another . |
| 55 | He was all for the idea , and we exchanged addresses . |
| 56 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 57 | This included having to study rod sizes , materials and changes in the amounts of electrical current to see how the effect depended on these , which was all for the future . |
| 58 | In only one respect were my original living arrangements altered , and it was all for the best . |
| 59 | The West Midlands and Cleveland County came up with £300,000 and £250,000 respectively , and that was all for the rest of England — a paltry £885,000 compared with the £2,325,000 raised from just twelve London boroughs . |
| 60 | Hari 's face was pale and Emily told herself sternly that it was all for the best , together she and Hari would prosper . |