Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] all [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The talk was all about the plague , which was coming back again into London . |
2 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |
3 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |
4 | But you were easy enough — your name was all over the papers recently . ’ |
5 | A row was all in a day 's work for her , and at the end she 'd feel pleased with herself and at peace with the world . |
6 | ‘ First class , ’ said Cornelius , once the green canvas portmanteau and his personal baggage was all in the boot of the taxi . |
7 | The moor was all round the saucer in which Chesney lay but the best views of it were from his house , the last house before the road curved round . |
8 | Miguel Rafaelo 's conversation was all about the village surgery , and the clinics he had set up there . |
9 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
10 | But Pound with his invaluable naïveté really believed that the United States was ‘ a land of opportunity ’ ; that his nation 's glory was all in the future , and would be achieved if only Americans would sort out those achievements of European culture ( and of non-European cultures also ) which were worth their emulating and trying to surpass . |
11 | The money was all in a pot . |