Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] all [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not really like The Soldier 's Tale ( ‘ I was all into swans and tutus ’ , she explained ) but was impressed by the duet for the soldier and the Scarlet Woman . |
| 2 | ‘ I was all in favour of a free pardon , ’ he said , ‘ but Geoffrey Lane objected . ’ |
| 3 | But if he were she was all in favour of bogeymen . |
| 4 | And that day we was all over Jenny 's . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | and it soft it would n't soften up , it stayed hard and they were all over garden . |
| 7 | ‘ And he said it was all over Los Angeles that it was Jo Forbes . ’ |
| 8 | Dot had been right all along and Mrs Parvis wrong when she 'd insisted that it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the afternoon he had a 34 for the first nine and I thought it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 11 | Now they were holding awkward , sometimes acrimonious meetings , badly managed and very sad , because they knew it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was all over bar the peeling off of clothes and the mopping up of mascara . |
| 14 | Suddenly it was all over bar the doubting . |
| 15 | It was all over bar the shouting . |
| 16 | Swindon probably felt it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 17 | It was all over months ago and , as far as he knew , with no hard feelings . |
| 18 | ‘ It was all about heart . |
| 19 | ‘ In my day , it was all about players finding space . |
| 20 | ‘ It was all about cooperation ; people worked together and got results and shared the spoils . ’ |
| 21 | It was all on tape . |
| 22 | It was all on offer as scripts began arriving almost daily . |
| 23 | It was all for Marguerite 's sake . |
| 24 | Rumour said it was all for show , to ward off the office wolves . |
| 25 | Oh , he talked about deals and the market , but it was all for effect . |
| 26 | Maybe they come to believe , when they are young adults and they receive the acclaim — and the money — which accompanies championship that it was all worth while . |
| 27 | If the families who received our hampers had as much pleasure as we did in planning them , then it was all worth while . |
| 28 | Still , sacrifices had to be made , though sometimes one could n't help wondering whether it was all worth while . |
| 29 | ( Rather than Aunt Polly ) I enjoyed this book , and found it very clever , as it was all from Finn 's point of view . |
| 30 | ‘ I would have thought it was all round Belial by now . ’ |