Example sentences of "it [was/were] all [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When it was all over the papers I feared that when I went shopping people would abuse me , spit at me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Next day it was all over the school . |
| 4 | I tell you how bad our one was , it was all over the road , this , the , the river line |
| 5 | The earth — it was all over the place — as if something had broken through . |
| 6 | Suddenly it was all over the place . |
| 7 | It was all over the place . |
| 8 | It was all over the place . |
| 9 | It was all about a woman who goes on holiday to a hotel in Switzerland . |
| 10 | I was 13 and it was all about a family living with lions , starring my mother , Tippi Hedren , and stepfather Noel Marshall . |
| 11 | It was all about the Scum , you would think they had already won the league the way the commentators were describing the display Saturday . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He really was a most exceptionally handsome man , but she knew from experience that it was all on the surface . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , it was all on the radio . ’ |
| 17 | It was all for a purpose , of course ; little that I do is not , one way or another . |
| 18 | But it was all to no avail . |
| 19 | But it was all to no avail . |
| 20 | Still , if he wanted to formally emphasise the gulf between them , it was all to the good . |
| 21 | Well , it was all to the good ; after he 'd finished skiing for the day they 'd return to the cottage , and she 'd set out for home . |
| 22 | It was all off the top of my head . |
| 23 | The fact that it was all within the rules was immaterial . |
| 24 | For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key . |
| 25 | No doubt the publishers would claim that it was all in the pursuit of the greater truth , in the way that the slimy tabloids and the unspeakable Sunday Times do when they are parading some particularly unpleasant piece of gossip . |
| 26 | I did n't know what it was all about till I got there and one of them said ‘ You may recognise this , ’ and it was all in the style of Camberwick Green . |
| 27 | But when I saw Bullitt , I thought , ‘ This was n't the script either , it was all in the director 's head . ’ |
| 28 | And it was all in the days before credit cards , when hire purchase was king . |
| 29 | It was all in the file . |
| 30 | Do you know , my psychiatrist spent hour after hour convincing me that it was all in the mind , that nobody really was out to get me , that the world was n't conspiring against me … |