Example sentences of "[was/were] all [adv] [prep] [art] " 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 | Even with more time lost , it was all over before the last hour . |
| 9 | It was all over in a few minutes . |
| 10 | Battler opened up with the violin and it was all over in a few minutes . |
| 11 | ‘ One kept shouting to the other to get the money , but it was all over in a flash . |
| 12 | The collapse of the Empire in 1814 and the fall of Napoleon I brought about a dispersal of the Imperial House and although the return of Napoleon from Elba in 1815 led to a restoration of the family fortunes , it was all over in the Hundred Days . |
| 13 | It was all over in the 10th . |
| 14 | And finally ... it was all right on the night |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | His wife Maggie kept on eye on him but said it was all right for a special occasion and that he could rejoin the pledge tomorrow . |
| 17 | I 'd also got an injunction against him because he became violent , and that was all right for a bit . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought he was all right for a millionaire . |
| 19 | But I was trained in an era when we were told that continental drift was all right for the unscientific geologists , but the " real " scientists — the physicists — said it was impossible . |
| 20 | It was all right for the likes of May and Izzy , always shouting and laughing and making her cry . |
| 21 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 22 | It was all right for the active partner , but how did the other fellow get his satisfaction . |
| 23 | He said it was all right for the pot to come off and for him to walk on the injured foot . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ It made me feel as if everything was all right with the world . |
| 26 | 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 … ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ She was all right in the wood , ’ said Lee . |
| 29 | But it was all right in the end . |
| 30 | ‘ She was all right until a minute ago , ’ he protested . |