Example sentences of "[be] all [prep] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been all over town and had a few vocals left , a few guitar bits , and was rather disenchanted with the studio he was using . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 3 | I am all for patriotism and international competition — the more feeling , the better . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | I used to think sex was all about condoms and fellatio and getting girls to show you their underwear . |
| 7 | The introduction was all about X and Y chromosomes in embryology , and I fell asleep . |
| 8 | My childhood was all about manners and how to hold your knife and fork and which glass to drink out of , and we had to curtsey , and as for my father , well , if I was looking like this — with blonde hair hanging down and the red lipstick — he would say I looked like a slut . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Young doctors were usually only too willing to take advice , but every now and again you got one like this lad , who clearly was all at sea and did n't know how to light the flares ! |
| 11 | The theme of the marquee was Sweden ; it was all in yellow and white . |