Example sentences of "[was/were] all [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The next day the news of the murder was all over London . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ And he said it was all over Los Angeles that it was Jo Forbes . ’ |
| 7 | And that day we was all over Jenny 's . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | And I wondered if he meant the heat that was all over John 's body . |
| 10 | At first , the talk was all about King James and his court . |
| 11 | He was all for England 's democracy and against any form of union with Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man , for which he seemed to have a particular dislike as " a nucleus of Celtic imagery " . |
| 12 | The pressure was all on Pippa Nolan then … she could n't afford to make one slip … one fence down would have lost it … her heart must have stopped when they rattled one but they kept their nerve and the lead to win Blenheim 's International Horse Trials |
| 13 | ‘ I would have said , however , that the ill-feeling was all on Alain Gebrec 's part . |
| 14 | ‘ I would have thought it was all round Belial by now . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ This was all in London , right ? ’ |
| 16 | I think it was all in Kenneth 's mind and I think Kenneth 's hang-up about his backside and his obsession with cleanliness would have made physical love very difficult for him . ’ |
| 17 | It was all in God 's hands . ’ |