Example sentences of "all [be] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politicians , diplomats , aid workers and journalists of almost every nationality have all been dragged into the confusion and misery that are the aftermath of the Vietnam war and the American bombing of Cambodia . |
| 2 | By the time the hunter caught up with them , the dogs had all been skewered by the goat . |
| 3 | The Cathedrals of Paris , Laon , Reims , Amiens , Chartres have all been likened to the Parthenon in Athens in that they , collectively and individually , present the greatest contribution to the architecture of their time — Gothic — and became prototypes for churches all over Europe . |
| 4 | We have all been invited to the festivities at his palace of Fontainebleau . ’ |
| 5 | Deferential coppers were a thing of the past ; they had all been conscripted into the House of Commons ' police . |
| 6 | They had all been seen in the vicinity of the turnpike and the nearby Duncan Woods . |
| 7 | The ironing , altering , re-tailoring had all been done against the clock and pushed through only because of the tyranny of Miss D'Arcy . |
| 8 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the applications to the district judge and the application for judicial review of his decisions had all been made by the applicant in a criminal cause because they related to the manner in which the district court trials should proceed , and so his appeal was not from a judgment of the High Court judge in a civil cause or matter within section 13(2) ( a ) of the Ordinance ; and that , therefore , since no other provision had conferred jurisdiction on the Court of Appeal to entertain the appeal , that court had correctly declined to hear it ( post , pp. 256G , 260E–F , G–H ) . |
| 9 | It had all been said on the track where both McLaren 's new MP4/7As , driven by Senna and team-mate Gerhard Berger , were non-finishers . |
| 10 | On Thursday , facing uproar on all sides of the Commons , Mr Major ordered that the mess be sorted out and Downing Street duly declared that there would be extra money for the poor over and above RPI uprating and that it had all been planned before the Budget . |
| 11 | They 've all been listening to the trainer . |
| 12 | However , the government claimed that no militias remained in Kabul , as they had all been absorbed into the regime 's regular army . |
| 13 | Up to this point the children have all been acting as the giant . |
| 14 | The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) reported on Oct. 22 the discovery of a mass grave near the Soviet border , containing the remains of about 5,000 monks who had all been shot in the head , apparently on Stalin 's orders under the Choybalsan regime ( 1936-52 ) . |
| 15 | Here the three open fields which practically surrounded the ancient town had all been enclosed before the need for more building land had become desperate . |
| 16 | Programmers in the second tournament had all been provided with the results of the first , including Axelrod 's analysis of why Tit for Tat and other nice and forgiving strategies had done so well . |
| 17 | True to the philosophy behind the series , the new titles have all been chosen for the quality of the writing and because they provide the satisfaction of a ‘ good read ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I hope you have all been practising during the holiday , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , as the girls all lined up with their brooms hovering next to them and the cats perched on the back — that is to say , most of the cats were perched on the back . |
| 19 | This was all that he could do , because the numbers on the apartment doors had all been defaced by the people who lived behind them . |
| 20 | Hopefully we can go all the way to Wembley , but we 've all been saying in the dressing room that there are some big league games coming up and we have to concentrate on them . ’ |
| 21 | Steve Leach has suggested that ‘ The ‘ brainstorming session ’ and the interweaving of political purpose and professional knowledge and advice have all been facilitated by the use of deliberative forums ’ ( Leach 1989:106 ) . |
| 22 | Anne and Sarah , Terry and Stephen had all been promoted to the ballroom and Anne said to Sarah , ‘ I 'm trying to persuade our Joe to come . |
| 23 | Vice-captain Geoff Marsh , Bruce Reid , Merv Hughes , Peter Taylor and Steve Waugh have all been omitted from the party of 13 while uncapped batsman Damien Martyn and the Victoria and former Sussex all-rounder Tony Dodemaide have been included in a new-look team , along with spinners Shane Warne and Greg Matthews . |
| 24 | Is there any truth to the rumour that the members have all been banned from the roads for speeding . |
| 25 | Faulkner 's local History mentions trout , pike , carp , roach , dace , perch , chub , barbel , smelt , flounder , shad , lamprey and eel all being caught in the river off Chelsea and also records nine salmon weighing 171½ lbs . |