Example sentences of "be all [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 One can reckon that to be all to the good , from a stranger .
2 His presence , of course , will make things rather difficult for Canaris which will be all to the good . ’
3 I 'd be all for the change because there 's logic in it .
4 ‘ Thank you , Madame , that will be all for the moment , but , ’ he bent his head close to her ear as they moved towards the door , ‘ I would ask you to act as my eyes and ears when I am not present .
5 ‘ That 'll be all for the moment , ’ he said .
6 They should be all over the place — especially where least expected — halfway down a leg , on a collar , cuff or elbow for instance .
7 No wonder , living in voluntary filth ; but it is all over the street — will be all over the town unless there 's some special mercy on the place ’
8 If he lay there until the morning , assuming he did not pass out , or drown , or spew up and choke to death in the meantime , he would be found when the boys came in to wash ; the humiliation would be unbearable and the whole story would be all over the school by breakfast .
9 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 .
10 They looked forward to that future time when God 's rule would be all over the earth .
11 This would be all over the town , whatever had I been thinking of , going down to the site , had n't I any sense ?
12 Otherwise , they 'd be all over the place under their own steam .
13 This would be all over the school tomorrow .
14 He also remarked , significantly : If it were not for the Union , I venture to think that women would be all over the London trade .
15 He told Daniel about the terrible St Rémy painting of the blasted tree , about noir-rouge , and Daniel said that it was odd that these orchards should be all over the walls of other asylums now , to cheer people up .
16 As I 've said before , we ca n't be all over the flats at the same time .
17 The criterion also makes a claim about localization ; the changes can not be all over the brain but must be concentrated to some specific region .
18 Glynn 's prints must be all over the premises so there should be no problem . ’
19 Whatever the case , the story of Sister Jones 's ridiculous crush on Dr Tom Russell would be all over the hospital by the end of the day , and Belinda , feeling like a helpless little fish struggling in a vast invisible net , did n't know what to do about it .
20 It would be all over the organisation in minutes .
21 And I 'll do , I do n't know about the other they seem to be all over the place today .
22 In any case , ’ he added , turning to look at her intently , ‘ the fact that I was in your room at this hour will be all over the hotel by morning . ’
23 ‘ I could score on Wednesday and become a national hero , but a week after I could get into a little incident and it would be all over the back pages again and I 'm a villain .
24 It 'll be all over the colony in no time .
25 He added : ‘ Johnathan 's photograph should be all over the world .
26 It will be all round the place in no time . ’
27 If the gym was n't very full you were really conscious of the number of screws ; they 'd be all round the back , all round the perimeter , and there was apparently a spy hole over the basketball net which they watched through .
28 His threat to Newley must be all round the agency by now .
29 Now it would be all round the hospital that Juliet Avery liked David Kent , and was probably jealous of the chidren 's ward staff nurse .
30 It would be all around the convent before bed time .
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