Example sentences of "[pron] was all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this might suggest otherwise , I was all the time working hard for Schools , as I knew that Eliot , now my mentor in most things , would have strongly urged me to do . |
| 2 | Which was all a pretence . |
| 3 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 4 | He continued on foot to Casterbridge to order the best gravestone available for twenty-seven pounds , which was all the money he had . |
| 5 | I think but continuing down the corridor erm which was all the Education Department , you came to the typists ' room right at the bottom of the corridor on the left |
| 6 | There they were at the table , his mother in a hat like a helmet , his father carving the bloody paw which was all the food on offer . |
| 7 | It was n't forth garaging the car for a couple of hours , which was all the time he could allow himself . |
| 8 | She paused , and was driven to add , ‘ But then , working for you was all the incentive I needed . |
| 9 | Erm , I was , we was all the time we were there , in er |
| 10 | But there was all the experience and help of Ann Scott Jones who somehow managed to make the lonely job of the Usherette/Narrator come to life , and the magic of Hildegarde Bechtler , the designer , turning the Tron into a real ‘ Forties cinema with help from the hardpressed stage manager , Gibby , and somebody 's wonderful collection of cinema architecture bric-a-brac and memorabilia . |
| 11 | Sitting there they could see the whole world spread out until it reached the sky , and whatever there was all the world over was with them in Galleons Lap . |
| 12 | So slow there was all the time on earth to avoid it , and she was not quick enough , and the hand caught her , behind her neck , the fingers in her hair . |
| 13 | There was all the mail |
| 14 | There was all the difference in the world between meeting a retired sporting hero behind the bar and meeting a shareholder or even a director . |
| 15 | For there was all the difference between the modest hillocks of comfort which the successful worker or ex-worker might reasonably hope to climb and the really impressive accumulations of wealth . |
| 16 | Later came the Farmans , aptly named ‘ cages à poules ’ , and the Caudrons , of which a French flyer remarked at the time that between these and the current German types ‘ there was all the difference between a lorry and a Rolls Royce ’ . |
| 17 | When he realised it was all a put-up job , he tore a strip off Julie . |
| 18 | She had so clearly implied that of course it was all a charade , but that Conchis must not know it was ; that she was in fancy-dress for him , not for me . |
| 19 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |
| 20 | ‘ If I go now I 'll meet the constable on the way and tell him it was all a misunderstanding . ’ |
| 21 | It was all a kind of madness , and Waugh did indeed go mad in the mid-1950s . |
| 22 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 23 | It was all a question of balance . |
| 24 | She says that it was all a question of remembering rules and methods . |
| 25 | Then it was all a lie . |
| 26 | ‘ You said — you made me believe — It was all a lie , was n't it ? |
| 27 | It was all a mixture . |
| 28 | I thought nothing of it ; it was all a part of the selection process and the more extreme it proved itself to be , the happier I felt , for I was enjoying the feeling of succeeding and managing while others failed . |
| 29 | It was all a part of his arrogant manner , but once more Robbie felt that unaccountable weakness invade her bones . |
| 30 | It was all a mistake of course . |