Example sentences of "[noun sg] be all [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and erm the car 's all over the place because the wheels are all covered in mud and everything so |
| 2 | Her talk was all about the recent fine weather , the record yield , the completion of harvest — all but the linseed . |
| 3 | The talk was all about the plague , which was coming back again into London . |
| 4 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |
| 5 | On 4 January 1576 , for instance , Francis Talbot told his father , the Earl of Shrewsbury , that ‘ the Council be all at the court ; they sit daily and the ambassadors [ of France ] come to them ’ . |
| 6 | I soon became absolutely obsessed with discovering acanthus everywhere , because the motif is all over the place , in wallpapers , in lampshades — everywhere I found acanthus . |
| 7 | But the hard work was all in a good cause . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 — ‘ |
| 9 | But the event was all in a good cause . |
| 10 | But you were easy enough — your name was all over the papers recently . ’ |
| 11 | In the first series the emphasis was all on the very street-sussed young women who went out and solved all kinds of crimes , problems and so on . |
| 12 | Track listing is All Along The Watchtower , Purple Haze , Hey Joe , The Wind Cries Mary , Angel , Voodoo Chile , Foxy Lady , Burning Of The Midnight Lamp , Highway Chile , Crosstown Traffic , Castles Made Of Sand , Long Hot Summer Night , Red House , Manic Depression , Gypsy Eyes , Little Wing , Fire , Wait Until Tomorrow , Star Spangled Banner from Woodstock and Wild Thing from Monterey . |
| 13 | Maybe reading the Daily Express , you get up and the fucking paper 's all over the floor and you |
| 14 | Within minutes my offer was all over the Docherty suite , and I became the source of hysterical laughter , ridicule and abuse . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ First class , ’ said Cornelius , once the green canvas portmanteau and his personal baggage was all in the boot of the taxi . |
| 17 | The '70s thing is all over the place at the moment , it 's when people of my generation were growing up , it 's people 's memories of classic pop imagery from their childhood . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her hair 's all over the pillow , and I want to brush it . |
| 20 | After another 30 seconds the Vanguard called " BN is established on localiser and glidepath ; the ADF 's all over the place in this weather " . |
| 21 | Miguel Rafaelo 's conversation was all about the village surgery , and the clinics he had set up there . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The money was all in a pot . |
| 25 | The Market 's all over the place . ’ |
| 26 | And then she 's , you 're trying to feed her and the , the dinner 's all over the place . |