Example sentences of "[was/were] all [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt an unbelievable relief when we were all up to the tizi and the real exploration could begin . |
| 2 | They were all off in the woods somewhere . |
| 3 | At one time Lancashire 's reply seemed very likely to even less than that as Albert Ward , Sugg , Smith and Briggs were all back in the pavilion with only 21 on the board . |
| 4 | Ninety minutes later they were all back in the saddle and drawing their first covert as if the season had just begun . |
| 5 | By 10pm , they were all back in the House to hear that the government had won by three votes . |
| 6 | Now she was a mother of five and the three young ones were all down with the fever . |
| 7 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 8 | We saw no razorbills , which was a surprise , and the few little auks we saw were all out on the water , but the puffins made up for the loss . |
| 9 | As it was , on the fourth day England batted steadily but without much conviction , Steele and Close the top scorers , and were all out on the last morning for 254 , leaving West Indies to make 323 runs in a minimum of 294 minutes . |
| 10 | Hawthorn , horse chestnut and cow parsley ( which has one of the most wonderful scents in the world ) were all out at the same time . |
| 11 | The place would be in a rush and a turmoil until they were all out in the field and Joe was sure enough of the neighbours who had come to help . |
| 12 | It was hushed as a mid-week chapel inside H3 because Carol and her typing tribe were all out in the rain with banners bearing crudely daubed exhortations to the government to raise their pay . |
| 13 | The ‘ broth ’ were all out in the park , where they would remain until tea time , and Patsy was over with a boy called Ed , who had befriended Patsy at school . |
| 14 | They were all out in the courtyard , and the evening sun was slanting low golden shafts of colour from the west , catching the windows of the ancient palace and turning them to molten copper . |
| 15 | The village was decked with flags and flowers , with garlands of leaves between the trees and over the doors of all the cottages , and the villagers were all out in the street , the children playing in their best white frilled dresses and shirts . |
| 16 | We 've always believed that the market has to be regulated ; that 's what Disraeli and Peel were all about in the nineteenth century , ’ he said . |
| 17 | It seemed to him that it was all up with the Church of England ’ . |
| 18 | When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there . |
| 19 | But we might be experimental enough to spring people into other ideas , which is what it was all about in the first place . |
| 20 | It was all down to the two relative people concerned . |
| 21 | It had been an historic day for the future of Zimbala — and it was all down to the tactful diplomacy of Jamel Mobuto . |
| 22 | but it 's all , it was all down to the captain |