Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] all [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I , when you were all doing nights |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Until we all got the news yesterday , we were all Den O'Neil 's children . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | They were all country girls you know . |
| 7 | They were all fighter pilots and they got hit , you see . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were all rugby fans , on their way back to Biggin Hill after watching the England-Ireland match in Dublin the day before . |
| 10 | They were all rugby fans , on their way back to Biggin Hill after watching the England-Ireland match in Dublin the day before . |
| 11 | Well he knew they were all slate quarry workers , and that 's how he went on to them . |
| 12 | He knew they were all slate quarry workers and they were prepared to work the slate again . |
| 13 | they were all leather manufacturers ? |
| 14 | You would have thought , from the way they were all carrying on , that they were all closet members of the British Interplanetary Society . |
| 15 | ‘ Where he fell — they were all body shots that took him . ’ |
| 16 | Pauline was awful , well they were all family names |
| 17 | Oh they were all coal fires . |
| 18 | But after that , well , it was all sea breezes . |
| 19 | But there were certainly trolley buses when I went there in nineteen thirty one and trolley buses first came in in nineteen twenty three and it was all trolley buses by nineteen twenty six . |
| 20 | Er it was all home security systems . |
| 21 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 22 | days you see , like I was out Monday I was busy all day Monday and then I Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday here yet I was busy , but it was all brain work |
| 23 | And it was all girdle scones scones muffins cream scones currant scones pancakes crumpets treacle crumpets treacle pancakes and all this . |
| 24 | On the second floor it was all the scones and tea bread and currant bread and on the top floor it was all confectionery work and sponge making and what have you and pies . |
| 25 | They it was all piece work , there . |
| 26 | Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah |
| 27 | There was no snow ploughs in those days , it was all hand cut if they were cutting drifts it was manual labour . |
| 28 | it was a it was all business people and you 're talking about |
| 29 | I 've known ghosts who went back to their houses or caravans or their stately homes and there was n't a trace of them left , it was all tower blocks or allotments or -one lady ghost told me — a supermarket . |
| 30 | And the week before it was all Christmas stuff was still in there . |