Example sentences of "[was/were] all [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we were all hay fever prone , then whenever we happened to be in a place where the pollen count was high , our eyes would start streaming and our noses running . |
| 2 | We used to say that the Poles were all fur coats and dirty knickers . |
| 3 | Others were all backroom boys . |
| 4 | Well we were all union members , and everybody wanted to be together , if you are if you are in the union well we had to stuck together an the the more we stayed together the stronger we are , to keep out if we can stay out . |
| 5 | They were all rugby fans , on their way back to Biggin Hill after watching the England-Ireland match in Dublin the day before . |
| 6 | They were all rugby fans , on their way back to Biggin Hill after watching the England-Ireland match in Dublin the day before . |
| 7 | They were all fighter pilots and they got hit , you see . |
| 8 | Lugh said with amused tolerance that these were all fairy tales , but some of the soldiers said , were they indeed . |
| 9 | It must be I was only thinking the other day the number of bakers but er the number of small bakers that were in Caldmore there was the two brothers one was in Road and one was in Street there was on the corner of Street , where the Co-op have that place now that was they were all bread bakers , were bread bakers er a bit further down Street going towards Street was bakery , they were a bakers and confectioners in Street |
| 10 | They were all country girls you know . |
| 11 | And so the first memories is in the meadows of Nottingham , going to infant school about the age do n't remember starting , but perhaps I 'd be six years of age , and it was a little church school and they were all lady teachers and most of them Mrs and not the Miss which is nowadays er more common . |
| 12 | It does not matter whether the successor and the tenant resided together in one or more houses or whether the residences were all council houses provided they resided together in a council house at the moment of death and provided that the successor and the tenant resided together during the period of 12 months prior to the death of the tenant . |
| 13 | And I must stress that these were all problem patients and if tumours were present they were recorded as so on that previous slide but they were often present in greatly reduced numbers . |
| 14 | The only socks they had at bloody Kingsworth were all girlie ones . |
| 15 | The children — aged between seven and 16 — were all VIP passengers aboard Dreamflight , an annual trip to the Florida theme parks of Seaworld , Universal Studios , MGM Studios , and DisneyWorld . |
| 16 | they were all leather manufacturers ? |
| 17 | ‘ Until we all got the news yesterday , we were all Den O'Neil 's children . |
| 18 | The 12-member commission was headed by Sihanouk but the 11 other members were all SOC officials . |
| 19 | Indeed , court documents show that the eight performers named in the livret as making up the harmonie rustique were all wind players in the employ of the king . |
| 20 | I know the first lot of bits I got in were all employment officers |
| 21 | Oh they were all coal fires . |
| 22 | You would have thought , from the way they were all carrying on , that they were all closet members of the British Interplanetary Society . |
| 23 | ‘ Where he fell — they were all body shots that took him . ’ |
| 24 | When I , when you were all doing nights |
| 25 | He thought the papers were all death certificates or copies ; he remembers a word like Sterberrkunde — |
| 26 | Singing round the piano , playing cards with each other or with our parents , board games of various kinds , and a word game called Lexicon were all family favourites . |
| 27 | He was called Francis Alexander William , which were all family names . |
| 28 | Pauline was awful , well they were all family names |
| 29 | His father , his paternal grandfather and one of his uncles were all porcelain painters in the Meissen potteries , but because of the disastrous economic effects of the Seven Years War his family were not well off . |
| 30 | Well he knew they were all slate quarry workers , and that 's how he went on to them . |