Example sentences of "[was/were] all a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tried lots of rehearsal spaces but they were all a rip off and totally out of the way . |
| 2 | Fforde makes much of the importance of archives and private correspondence as the means to discover ‘ true intentions ’ , so why did Austen Chamberlain not simply drop Hugh Cecil a note to let him know that his speeches in favour of tariffs and pensions were all a put-up job ? |
| 3 | This is especially true of those remembered with ambivalence : grandparents who evoked ‘ admiration mixed with awe ’ or of whom ‘ we were afraid ; ’ the swearing , free-thinking grandfather of a future preacher ; or the high-minded but remote Wiltshire rector — ‘ We were all a little afraid of him : he was so tall , venerable , so full of big words and bigger gestures . |
| 4 | To tell the truth , I think they were all a bit scared of him . |
| 5 | ‘ I think , if truth be told , we were all a little afraid of him . ’ |
| 6 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 7 | A palace aide said last night : ‘ We were all a bit apprehensive about the lunch but when they arrived they put everyone at ease . |
| 8 | And by the time we came out we were all a little bit tiddly , and as you know , Fred does n't dance any more , but as we walked up the street to the car , he started to tap dance . |
| 9 | They were all a bit afraid of what Ifor would say if they did wrong . |
| 10 | One general practitioner , who works in a large multipartner practice in Worksop , said that the community care reforms were all a bit of a mystery . |
| 11 | Hopefully , by the time the lingering effects of physical addiction have worn off , there will be sufficient group cohesion and peer pressure to persuade the sufferer to stay in treatment and thereby counter-act the urge to believe that the problems were all a lot of fuss about nothing . |
| 12 | I 'd believe anything bad about anybody , if I did n't know they were all a load of bloody liars . ’ |
| 13 | You were all a bit concerned I suppose ? |
| 14 | " At lunch we were all a bit subdued , " he said . |
| 15 | The woman 's face staring at him , her footsteps as she ran off and the stench of the multi-tentacled creature were all a blur as he lapsed in and out of consciousness . |
| 16 | In our squadron was a man I call an elderly because at the time he was about forty to forty five years old and we were all a bunch of kids . |
| 17 | ‘ For the first few days they were all a bit subdued , ’ Bob said . |
| 18 | As of were all a |
| 19 | They were all a pound . |
| 20 | They were all an experiment . |
| 21 | I 've always been good at painting ; I 'd nearly finished my picture — which included the ark and a mountain when Miss began telling us how rainbows were all an illusion caused by sunlight and raindrops . |
| 22 | ‘ That was all a long time ago now . ’ |
| 23 | Eliot was well aware it was all a business of transmission and reinterpretation of past interpretations as he shows in writing that ‘ Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum . ’ |
| 24 | I thought it was all a joke , you 've really got to be some schmuck to fall for that one . |
| 25 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 26 | It was all a bit odder than that . |
| 27 | But it was all a bluff . |
| 28 | It was all a little ‘ circussy ’ — a little P T Barnham . |
| 29 | It was all a mistake of course . |
| 30 | It was all a great privatisation success , he explained , pointing to fleets of cars and tractors lined up for export . |