Example sentences of "was all [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was all off the top of my head .
2 I tell you how bad our one was , it was all over the road , this , the , the river line
3 ‘ When it was all over the papers I feared that when I went shopping people would abuse me , spit at me .
4 But you were easy enough — your name was all over the papers recently . ’
5 The afterdeck — of course those boats were n't so big as they are now — all where I laid , it was all over the deck .
6 Next day it was all over the school .
7 ‘ 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 — ‘
8 Harley , however , was all over the course , but his short game and especially his putting was brilliant .
9 Her massy hair , which she usually plaited at night or at least tied back , was all over the pillow and herself and him , covering his shoulders as well as her own .
10 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 .
11 The earth — it was all over the place — as if something had broken through .
12 One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place .
13 Suddenly it was all over the place .
14 It was all over the place .
15 It was all over the place .
16 It was all about a woman who goes on holiday to a hotel in Switzerland .
17 I was 13 and it was all about a family living with lions , starring my mother , Tippi Hedren , and stepfather Noel Marshall .
18 It was all about the Scum , you would think they had already won the league the way the commentators were describing the display Saturday .
19 Miguel Rafaelo 's conversation was all about the village surgery , and the clinics he had set up there .
20 Democracy , explained Mr McIverney , was all about the decisions of Parliament , and Parliament had granted his engineers permission to go on site .
21 The talk was all about the plague , which was coming back again into London .
22 And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time .
23 It was all for a purpose , of course ; little that I do is not , one way or another .
24 She was all for a bit of ducking and diving , that 's how everyone lived in her estimation , but from what she had gleaned recently about her sons , it was a completely different lifestyle they were after .
25 The West Midlands and Cleveland County came up with £300,000 and £250,000 respectively , and that was all for the rest of England — a paltry £885,000 compared with the £2,325,000 raised from just twelve London boroughs .
26 He was all for the idea , and we exchanged addresses .
27 Come along , " Aunt Tossie was all for the fun of the fair .
28 Macmillan replied urbanely that he was all for the plan , adding :
29 This included having to study rod sizes , materials and changes in the amounts of electrical current to see how the effect depended on these , which was all for the future .
30 Owen was all for the Agreement .
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