Example sentences of "[was/were] all [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Valerie 's got some wee ‘ do ’ on tonight and I popped over to Hyndland Road this morning because she was short of ramekins for her starters and the wee souls were all over Gran with their Selection Boxes , honestly any more would sicken me . |
| 2 | If you like to think that we started discuss discuss this discussion by saying there was a demand after the war , you can see now that we met it in , over and over again cos these machines were all over America . |
| 3 | and I went in shop I said a sack of dog food I said German Shepherd and got it home and I thought this looks different , it were ginormous chunk things in it and he were going ptew , ptew and they were all over garden |
| 4 | and it soft it would n't soften up , it stayed hard and they were all over garden . |
| 5 | His bus-load of senior schoolboys were all over Aurae Phiala by this time , gushing downhill towards the river like streams in spate , and no doubt he was free for a minute or two to breathe again and care about his own theories and idylls . |
| 6 | The next day the news was all over Fontanellato that the woman had been found dead with a rope round her neck . |
| 7 | The next day the news of the murder was all over London . |
| 8 | Their own staff had become acutely discontented — they were understaffed and overworked , and after the hype was all over Oxford DHSS was closed down by a strike lasting two months against understaffing . |
| 9 | Dot had been right all along and Mrs Parvis wrong when she 'd insisted that it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 10 | George , wisely , did n't try to compete with guest Gary Moore and simply strummed his way through While my Guitar Gently Weeps as Moore 's Les Paul sobbed inconsolably — but by then it was all over bar the cheering . |
| 11 | In the afternoon he had a 34 for the first nine and I thought it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 12 | Now they were holding awkward , sometimes acrimonious meetings , badly managed and very sad , because they knew it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 13 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 14 | It was all over bar the peeling off of clothes and the mopping up of mascara . |
| 15 | Suddenly it was all over bar the doubting . |
| 16 | It was all over bar the shouting . |
| 17 | Swindon probably felt it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 18 | Soon the story of the scandalous exhibition was all over Paris and , ironically , the unlooked for publicity did make his work more saleable — although when Zborowski offered Jacques Lipchitz four nudes from the show for five hundred francs , he refused . |
| 19 | ‘ And he said it was all over Los Angeles that it was Jo Forbes . ’ |
| 20 | And that day we was all over Jenny 's . |
| 21 | Then she discovered that it was Travis she had to thank that the news of her engagement to his cousin was all over Vasey 's , as , still smiling , he stated , ‘ Hope you do n't mind , Naylor , but I came in earlier to have a quick word with Leith , and could n't resist telling her assistant that a possible reason for Leith being late this morning could be her getting engaged to you at the weekend . ’ |
| 22 | And I wondered if he meant the heat that was all over John 's body . |
| 23 | It was all over months ago and , as far as he knew , with no hard feelings . |
| 24 | Mine was all about Strong-mindedness , and Gay 's , as far as I can gather , was on Undue Levity , its cause and cure … ’ |
| 25 | Then , the message was all about freedom , flexibility and legs , bared to the thigh in pelmet skirts , streamlined in skin-tight Lycra , or flashing in black opaque tights . |
| 26 | ‘ It was all about cooperation ; people worked together and got results and shared the spoils . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ In my day , it was all about players finding space . |
| 28 | At first , the talk was all about King James and his court . |
| 29 | Raymond Floyd might have suggested that the match was all about sportsmanship and camaraderie but there was no disguising the feeling in the American camp when someone as eloquent as Tom Watson could state that he was " over here to kick some butt " . |
| 30 | ‘ It was all about heart . |