Example sentences of "[was/were] all [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
| 34 | The earth — it was all over the place — as if something had broken through . |
| 35 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 36 | Suddenly it was all over the place . |
| 37 | It was all over the place . |
| 38 | It was all over the place . |
| 39 | It was all about a woman who goes on holiday to a hotel in Switzerland . |
| 40 | I was 13 and it was all about a family living with lions , starring my mother , Tippi Hedren , and stepfather Noel Marshall . |
| 41 | It was all about the Scum , you would think they had already won the league the way the commentators were describing the display Saturday . |
| 42 | Miguel Rafaelo 's conversation was all about the village surgery , and the clinics he had set up there . |
| 43 | Democracy , explained Mr McIverney , was all about the decisions of Parliament , and Parliament had granted his engineers permission to go on site . |
| 44 | The talk was all about the plague , which was coming back again into London . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | It was all for a purpose , of course ; little that I do is not , one way or another . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | He was all for the idea , and we exchanged addresses . |
| 50 | Come along , " Aunt Tossie was all for the fun of the fair . |
| 51 | Macmillan replied urbanely that he was all for the plan , adding : |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Owen was all for the Agreement . |
| 54 | The grand master of ceremonies , Amir Aslan Afshar , was all for the Shah 's keeping or selling his personal plane . |
| 55 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 56 | It was all on a scale much more appropriate for children than the high vaulting of his previous school and there was much more play equipment . |
| 57 | He really was a most exceptionally handsome man , but she knew from experience that it was all on the surface . |
| 58 | ‘ Yes , it was all on the radio . ’ |
| 59 | They three boys — and Sara — was all brought up at Trebyan and they was all at the village school . |
| 60 | But it was all to no avail . |