Example sentences of "all was " in BNC.
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| 1 | All was right with the world . |
| 2 | For all was not as it seemed . |
| 3 | In any event , the biggest problem for us all was my own state of depression . |
| 4 | What he wanted from Byers above all was an offer — a plausible offer — to bring two hundred people down to Fortingall . |
| 5 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 6 | And all was well , as everyone could see when big , proud , handsome and scatty-but-obedient Moby launched himself out of the car ( on command , of course ! ) for the video cover photo call . |
| 7 | All was bustle and confidence . |
| 8 | The next sentence begins a new paragraph : ‘ When all was over , she was covered in confusion . ’ |
| 9 | Behind it all was the hand of Nelson Mandela , which may lend the event much significance should it turn out that President FW de Klerk is serious about negotiating with black leaders . |
| 10 | That they had any cohesion at all was impressive and when they also succeeded in driving through the heart of the French forwards an improbable victory became at least possible . |
| 11 | Brian Pritchard , chairman , insisted that all was not gloom and doom , pointing to the success of West Venture Development , the group 's Southern Californian subsidiary , which this year is expected to double its output to about 500 homes . |
| 12 | William Hill yesterday quoted Travelling Light as their 7-2 market leader ( from 4-1 ) but added a ‘ with a run ’ proviso as they had heard that all was not well with the three-year-old , who is trained by Lynda Ramsden at Sandhutton near Thirsk . |
| 13 | So when we received persistent telephone calls from our clients asking whether we had heard that all was not well with the horse , we had to take a view . |
| 14 | There were two mortar explosions over by the road , then all was fairly quiet except for the sound of firing away in the distance at the other end of the village , where I had been earlier on in the evening . |
| 15 | All was silent except for the automatic fire fairly close at hand , somewhere down by the crossroads . |
| 16 | All was dressed up like Bud Flanagan for some reason almost drowning in a raccoon coat . |
| 17 | He does in general , though he also knocks some gilt off the gingerbread by pointing out how easy it all was . |
| 18 | Fenna loved Maggie , and knowing that all was lost and love had departed , that she had betrayed their long friendship , that she had asserted herself over his mastery , he howled and , dropping his shoulder , hurled her out of her safe nest and into the immensity of space . |
| 19 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 20 | But , instead of the freedom and ease they had longed for , all they felt was emptiness where once all was tension and work . |
| 21 | Amid it all was their constant awareness of Moran 's watching presence , sharpening everything they did with the danger of letting something fall and break and bring the weight of his disapproval into the small chain . |
| 22 | This view of kinship as an opposite to capitalist relations of production explains the vivid interest with which Marx and Engels examined the work of such anthropologists as Bachofen , McLennan , and Maine , who were all concerned with this topic ; but above all it explains once again why Morgan should have been so important for them , since he above all was the expert on kinship . |
| 23 | Back at the truck all was despondency in the gathering gloom . |
| 24 | On the Mercedes-Benz stand all was quiet contemplation and sober judgements as the world 's automotive sages basked in a recyclable , CFC-free attempt at justifying a double-glazed , 408bhp V12 monolith weighing more than two tonnes , 17ft long and called the new Mercedes S-class . |
| 25 | You would have thought there might be a problem of some sort : just a small failure perhaps ; something which would suggest that all was not well within the house of the world champions ; something which would give the rest a smidgeon of hope for the remainder of the season . |
| 26 | Most famous of all was Fred Archer . |
| 27 | Best known of all was John Snagge . |
| 28 | ‘ Eva was with her father , and all was fine until the day before she was due to come home , ’ recalls Wendy . |
| 29 | They wanted to know what I was doing about getting another job and all was serene . |
| 30 | The officer in charge went forward to check that all was well and with a Permanent Staff Instructor laid out the electrical initiation cable and applied the detonators to the ring main they had fitted up the previous afternoon . |