Example sentences of "[was/were] all [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ One kept shouting to the other to get the money , but it was all over in a flash . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | I 'd also got an injunction against him because he became violent , and that was all right for a bit . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought he was all right for a millionaire . |
| 6 | ‘ She was all right until a minute ago , ’ he protested . |
| 7 | He tapped the desk as though it was all there in a diagram that I should have already looked at . |