Example sentences of "were [verb] all along [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prison , where some of the dissidents who opposed the Shahs rule were held by SAVAK , was painted up , the street were cleaned , pots of flowers were placed all along the main roads , birds in cages were hung from lamp posts , shopkeepers were given blue coats to wear . |
| 2 | Cars were parked all along the grass verge outside the church . |
| 3 | Doors were opening all along the corridor . |
| 4 | In most of Scotland , most of Wales and Cornwall there was a preference for black or black finchbacks , while solid red cattle dominated Devon , Sussex and Kent , and part-reds were preferred all along the east coast of England down to East Anglia , where there was a mixing of red-and-whites and duns . |
| 5 | Also barrels of apples and tobacco and many other useful items that had been part of the boat 's cargo were strewn all along the beach . |
| 6 | And they spurred forward to pursue and take him , no doubt believing it a happy chance for them , and the Lord Owen caused his horse to appear to drop lame , and so encouraged and led them until they were spread all along the field in open order , within close range of the bowmen in the woods . |