Example sentences of "[was/were] all [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dutchman Marcel Albers , who won the first race at Donington , compatriot Oswaldo Negri and Belgian Mikke Van Hool were all slightly quicker in testing during the week so de Ferran will need to be at peak to clinch top spot , as he twice did for Edenbridge Racing last year . |
| 2 | Twenty children were flown to Croydon , and ‘ They were all cheerfully sick , enticed by the little paper bags , except a baby of one who slept peacefully in my lap the whole time . ’ |
| 3 | Back in the car once again , Eddie explained that his sales calls were all carefully pre-planned . |
| 4 | They were all rather drunk and , by analogy from the argument , Rufus had sung at the the top of his voice : |
| 5 | No one hesitated to tell you that their spouse was schizophrenic , they themselves alcoholic , homosexual or beastlily promiscuous ( no , they were all rather proud of that one ) or , of course , that they hated their mother . |
| 6 | The primitive mammals that happened to be around in the three areas when the dinosaurs more or less simultaneously vacated the great life trades , were all rather small and insignificant , probably nocturnal , previously overshadowed and overpowered by the dinosaurs . |
| 7 | On the drive back to camp we were all rather happy , Jimmy in the front driving with me half asleep in the passenger seat , and Henry and Rosemary behind . |
| 8 | The occupants of The Haunt were all rather peculiar . |
| 9 | I think in Britain we were all rather amazed at how much solidarity was extended to us from Europe . |
| 10 | They were all bitterly jealous of Sweetheart because she was so clean , with beautiful hands , long painted nails and a face like a film-star 's . |
| 11 | The celebrations were mighty — the players were all clearly delighted , and us fans went mad too . |
| 12 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 13 | By then we were all pretty good so we found it much more enjoyable . |
| 14 | We were all pretty jet-lagged . |
| 15 | We were all pretty open with each other but very discreet outside . |
| 16 | eleven forty six , he 's got them inside , I think I told you about this did n't I ? , and I was inside helping them out like , he was outside , he did n't have his gas mask , we were doing the things , like M B C stuff , and I 'm inside and he said right you will each go to a post , where inside this tent , each to go to er , erm , cos there was six people inside and like there was six posts , he said you each got to a post inside the tent and on the you will pick up the tent , and I new what was coming , done it before sort of thing and erm , were all in M B C stuff cos there 's still lots of gas , but there was n't for very long , and he said right on the you will , er he just said , we picked it up right , were all fucking all fucking I said go on then , |
| 17 | Moreover , ‘ They were all madly highly-sexed like the Starkadders ’ , she told an interviewer earlier in the decade , ‘ and I think a lot of the laughing at that kind of thing in Cold Comfort Farm comes from a ‘ distaste ’ … if you have it thrust on you from an early age , with divorces left , right and centre and people chasing each other round tables … well . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Look , Jenny , ’ said Sheila , ‘ we were all dead sorry to hear about your mother . |
| 19 | One afternoon , the Wideawake Mice were all fast asleep , in their home in Candletown Market . |
| 20 | They were all fast asleep . |
| 21 | By which time we were all fast asleep in our little beds . |
| 22 | and then we waited till next morning when they were all fast asleep you know and |
| 23 | Spurred by the emergence of other regional trading blocs , Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay — whose current governments were all broadly centre-right and committed to free markets — sought to take advantage of the " Enterprise for the Americas " initiative announced by United States President Bush in June 1990 , providing for US investment and official debt relief in an Americas-wide free-trade zone [ see p. 37526 ] . |
| 24 | For example , many soap operas omit older people entirely , as if we were all perpetually middle-aged ! |
| 25 | The group of four of us were embarking on a camping trip in the mountains in Northern Scotland , and were all well aware that we could not afford to leave any of our equipment behind . |
| 26 | The people from the highest paid to the lowest paid were all just one unit . |
| 27 | And of Jason , Alan and Ian she said ; ‘ They were all incredibly supportive to me . |
| 28 | After five hours and 35 minutes in the air they were all desperately short of fuel , but at that moment Malta appeared dead ahead . |
| 29 | We were all desperately seasick . |
| 30 | Unlike their prototypes ( The Monkees , The Archies ) , the Rollers were all hideously ugly , wonky , Scottish and gonky . |