Example sentences of "[was/were] all [adv] [prep] the [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 | And finally ... it was all right on the night |
| 8 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 9 | He said it was all right for the pot to come off and for him to walk on the injured foot . |
| 10 | It was all right for the likes of May and Izzy , always shouting and laughing and making her cry . |
| 11 | ‘ It made me feel as if everything was all right with the world . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 … ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ She was all right in the wood , ’ said Lee . |
| 16 | But it was all right in the end . |
| 17 | It was all downhill to the causeway , and the turf was smooth . |
| 18 | It was all there on the page , dissected for her . |
| 19 | 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | Thérèse says it was all there in the letters she got back from the convent . |
| 21 | But apparently it was all out of the scientists ' control . |
| 22 | It was all out of the hole-in-the-wall this evening . |