Example sentences of "were all [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech . |
| 2 | He may have shared in the Puritan tendency of Cranbrook ; his published works were all printed for the London theological bookseller , Philemon Stephens , and produced in the early 1650s , at a time when publication in both the learned languages and the vernacular greatly increased . |
| 3 | They were all slumped in the shade of the vehicles , blurred by patches of cigarette smoke . |
| 4 | ‘ They were all looking round the screen saying they had not seen the bum of anyone famous before , ’ he recalls . |
| 5 | The ten rooms were all situated on the first floor . |
| 6 | They were all situated on the dock and the is now what they call the |
| 7 | Bobby Davison , Phil Gee and David Oldfield were all denied by the Wolves woodwork . |
| 8 | The Labour Party in parliament , most Liberals and , of course , the Left were all opposed to the basic principles behind the government 's policy . |
| 9 | The patients were all detained under the Mental Health Act , required urgent surgery or invasive investigation , and were , in the opinion of the surgical team , unable to give informed consent . |
| 10 | And they were all haemorrhaging at the back . |
| 11 | Marcus and the woman were all entwined on the settee . |
| 12 | Even though it was against Danzig law , these people were all sent to the Reich , presumably to concentration camps . |
| 13 | So we were all herded in the common room together . |
| 14 | When we did The Taming of the Shrew , every time Petruchio yelled — and he had a fine voice — all the peacocks answered , and on the opening night I could feel my neighbour shaking with laughter because the peacocks were all jostling for the best places to roost in the trees . |
| 15 | In some way we were all affected by the impact of the Food Safety Act 1990 and the amendments to food hygiene regulations . |
| 16 | Rachel Rowe ; Emma George ; Mary Titford — who were all baptised on the Sabbath morning , June 10 , and admitted in the afternoon . |
| 17 | They were all written for The Lord of the Rings alone . |
| 18 | I was petrified because all my sheets and tableclothes and all my cutlery and silver were all stamped with the Embassy crest . |
| 19 | The vertical and the horizontal structures of Germany were locked into a system of finance , into a particular sense of ‘ Kultur ’ and the drive to expand eastwards , that were all connected with the development of industry and the logic of capitalist modes of production . |
| 20 | Borneo , Java and Sumatra were all connected to the mainland by what is known as the Sunda Shelf , just as Australia and New Guinea were joined by the Sahul Shelf . |
| 21 | The Noble Savage , the Polynesian Beauty , the Paradise Isle were all conceived in the world 's largest ocean . |
| 22 | The Head of Department then went through the objectives one at a time and satisfied the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and the Director of Studies that , with different emphases , the objectives were all subsumed in the 3 criteria for the assessment of pupils ' work . |
| 23 | With a fair amount of jiggling , the big end caps were all parted from the con-rods and the crankshaft was lifted from the crankcase . |
| 24 | The above were all covered by the Corporation Superannuation Scheme , but there are believed to have been more motormen and conductors who had not been long enough with the Corporation to qualify . |
| 25 | It was confirmed this week that Ulster stars David Humphreys , Gary Longwell and Innes Gray were all staying with the students next season , with Humphreys as captain . |
| 26 | and I looked at people , we were all saying why we waiting here , why we waiting and we saw people rushing off so we thought we 've got to rush off after them and we were all put on the train and sent to Charing Cross which was n't where most of us wanted to go or anything like we wanted to go |
| 27 | When I was an undergraduate student studying sociology we were all warned of the dangers of romanticism . |
| 28 | Mr Reed , along with Martin Gibbs and Christopher Stainforth , director of corporate finance at Phillips & Drew , were all condemned by the inspectors , and Mr Reed resigned from County as a result . |
| 29 | These repairs were all done on the progressive system , one man and an apprentice seeing the job through , from stripping to the completed repair . |
| 30 | We try to give the publisher new paper , but the drafts of these chapters were all done on the backs of once-used sheets . |