Example sentences of "[was/were] all [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The policeman 's job was to count the knobs and report that they were all right in the morning .
2 His tools were all over in the cafeteria , there had to be something that he could use to open himself up .
3 It lasted , like that with Elizabeth , for over a quarter of a century , though the five meetings between us were all over by the autumn of 1947 .
4 He had thought it was all over for the Bookman and that the acid had not worked .
5 THEY thought it was all over at the BBC 21 years ago when they switched off the most famous football commentating voice of all , Kenneth Wolstenholme .
6 it was all over at the start of the second half … it took Millwall just 17 seconds and ten touches to win the game …
7 The game was all over as a spectacle until the last two minutes when United 's corpse rose from the dead to give Horsham an awful fright .
8 ‘ One kept shouting to the other to get the money , but it was all over in a flash .
9 And finally ... it was all right on the night
10 Polo was all right as a hobby , but for a living , as Angel 's father , who prided himself on his English had pointed out , it was distinctly ‘ Non-U ’ .
11 I 'd also got an injunction against him because he became violent , and that was all right for a bit .
12 ‘ I thought he was all right for a millionaire .
13 I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds .
14 He said it was all right for the pot to come off and for him to walk on the injured foot .
15 It was all right for the likes of May and Izzy , always shouting and laughing and making her cry .
16 ‘ It made me feel as if everything was all right with the world .
17 Like when I had to carry the garbage out — because of my bad back , the girls helped me with my duty and it was all right with the counsellors because of my back — it was n't special treatment .
18 I was passing when I saw the gates not shut properly , so I thought I 'd best come in and see if everything was all right at the house … ’
19 She was anxious to see him the moment he arrived , and make sure he was all right after the trauma of the interview with the insurance investigator .
20 ‘ She was all right in the wood , ’ said Lee .
21 But it was all right in the end .
22 ‘ She was all right until a minute ago , ’ he protested .
23 It was all downhill to the causeway , and the turf was smooth .
24 It was all there on the page , dissected for her .
25 He tapped the desk as though it was all there in a diagram that I should have already looked at .
26 It was all there in the way , in Czech , he called the dog off ; as the dog immediately obeyed , let go of her and went to his master 's side , the man , his charm of yesterday nowhere to be seen , blasted her in English with an angry , ‘ Have n't you any sense ? ’
27 Thérèse says it was all there in the letters she got back from the convent .
28 But apparently it was all out of the scientists ' control .
29 It was all out of the hole-in-the-wall this evening .
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