Example sentences of "[conj] [be] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines . |
| 2 | Or perhaps they are working in Britain and having to interpret the culture that is all around them . |
| 3 | Miss Jarman 's rasping voice cut through Jess 's picture of herself as a fairground tumbler and she repeated her story in a flat monotone , conscious of a depressing conviction that the more often she told it , the more tangled she was becoming in this battle that was all about other people 's money and injured pride . |
| 4 | And I wondered if he meant the heat that was all over John 's body . |
| 5 | It was hard to urge forbearance and sympathy with the father on the son , all the more in face of that bitter resentment that was all for poor Mary Bohun , mother of six young children and dead at twenty-four . |
| 6 | We have never had a more dangerous enemy than the one who is lying out there ’ — and he pointed to the great marsh that was all round us . |
| 7 | Thus party apparatchiks can spend months or years devising an appropriate slogan without anyone paying more than the most perfunctory attention when the thing is published , while some silly so-and-so can go on Newsnight and make an indelicate comment and be all over the newspapers for weeks . |
| 8 | That is absolutely clear , and it is in clear contrast to the position of the Labour party , which maintains its high spending policies and is all over the place in deciding how to finance them . |
| 9 | Piers sent his love and was all for going up to London that minute to see the painting . |
| 10 | This particular Sunday she had an invitation to a dinner party , and was all for cancelling , but Leonora would n't hear of it . |