Example sentences of "was all [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Next day it was all over the school . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 — ‘ |
| 6 | Harley , however , was all over the course , but his short game and especially his putting was brilliant . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The earth — it was all over the place — as if something had broken through . |
| 10 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 11 | Suddenly it was all over the place . |
| 12 | It was all over the place . |
| 13 | It was all over the place . |
| 14 | It was all about a woman who goes on holiday to a hotel in Switzerland . |
| 15 | I was 13 and it was all about a family living with lions , starring my mother , Tippi Hedren , and stepfather Noel Marshall . |
| 16 | It was all about the Scum , you would think they had already won the league the way the commentators were describing the display Saturday . |
| 17 | Miguel Rafaelo 's conversation was all about the village surgery , and the clinics he had set up there . |
| 18 | The talk was all about the plague , which was coming back again into London . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was all for a purpose , of course ; little that I do is not , one way or another . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was all for the idea , and we exchanged addresses . |
| 24 | Come along , " Aunt Tossie was all for the fun of the fair . |
| 25 | Macmillan replied urbanely that he was all for the plan , adding : |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Owen was all for the Agreement . |
| 28 | It was all on a scale much more appropriate for children than the high vaulting of his previous school and there was much more play equipment . |
| 29 | He really was a most exceptionally handsome man , but she knew from experience that it was all on the surface . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , it was all on the radio . ’ |