Example sentences of "were [vb pp] all [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The prison , where some of the dissidents who opposed the Shahs rule were held by SAVAK , was painted up , the street were cleaned , pots of flowers were placed all along the main roads , birds in cages were hung from lamp posts , shopkeepers were given blue coats to wear .
2 Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room .
3 Late last night , Tass reported that bursts of automatic fire were heard all around the city as ‘ several tens of thousands of people ’ gathered on Bucharest 's University Square .
4 Savings groups were formed all over the country and children ran their own campaigns in schools .
5 During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles .
6 Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually .
7 He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles .
8 On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central .
9 Fragments of wicker were scattered all around the room ; a small pile of them marked the drain .
10 Cars were parked all along the grass verge outside the church .
11 Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change .
12 We had a bit of a party in the Met Office that night , tearful farewells were said all over the place , and I departed the next morning with my kit and a bad headache , ready for whatever Fate had in store for me .
13 They were exhibited all over the world , and appeared in London at the Egyptian Hall in 1829 .
14 Cupboards and shelves were built all round the room and concealed behind neat panels of canvas-covered wood , with touch-opening mechanisms so as not to break the continuity of the limited space .
15 Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands .
16 Metal castings were exported all over the world and an industrial proletariat developed very early .
17 By the 1900s , British Arts and Crafts houses were admired all over the world .
18 High above them , the base of the Bridge passed through a cone of semi-transparent cables , which were anchored all around the edge of the depression , before continuing downwards to merge smoothly with the bubble itself .
19 Both had their moments and , for the first time , both were shown all around the world on television .
20 In most of Scotland , most of Wales and Cornwall there was a preference for black or black finchbacks , while solid red cattle dominated Devon , Sussex and Kent , and part-reds were preferred all along the east coast of England down to East Anglia , where there was a mixing of red-and-whites and duns .
21 The place was deserted , there was no sign of the family , smashed furniture and household goods were strewn all over the place .
22 Also barrels of apples and tobacco and many other useful items that had been part of the boat 's cargo were strewn all along the beach .
23 Three thousand men worked here once , producing slates that were shipped all over the world from the specially built Port Dinorwic on the Menai Strait .
24 They were shipped all over the world Spain , Australia and South America being popular destinations .
25 Nevertheless , in the late 1960s , mini-skirts were distributed all over the world and could be ( if preserved ) the index fossil for that epoch .
26 Max Jacob was homosexual , trying desperately to look distinguished in his top hat , evening dress , spats and monocle , whilst Modi 's affairs with women were known all over the quarter .
27 ‘ What were known all over the world as ‘ English gardens ’ were the most pervasive influence that England ever had on the European way of life' , wrote Lord Clark .
28 Soon visuals with clever captions were pinned all round the room .
29 And they spurred forward to pursue and take him , no doubt believing it a happy chance for them , and the Lord Owen caused his horse to appear to drop lame , and so encouraged and led them until they were spread all along the field in open order , within close range of the bowmen in the woods .
30 ‘ Their pictures were spread all over the news bulletins .
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