Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be all [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At the end of my talk the chairman of the session , John G. Taylor from Kings College , London , claimed it was all nonsense .
2 ‘ I knew you were all heart really Joe .
3 I thought we were all biologists these days !
4 Well he knew they were all slate quarry workers , and that 's how he went on to them .
5 He knew they were all slate quarry workers and they were prepared to work the slate again .
6 So I thought they were all part of a jokey game .
7 I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them .
8 Dot knew it was all dreams .
9 Some clearly thought it was all part of the night 's entertainment .
10 They thought it was all part of his evident ‘ foolishness ’ .
11 We all thought it was all part of number one .
12 And his wife , who is in a wheelchair , commented , ‘ I realised it was all rubbish — he 's a wonderful man . ’
13 The menu plan they gave me was all doughnuts , porridge with cream , big steaks , milky drinks and huge puddings .
14 Dot said they were all Al and tip-top .
15 Ronnie said it 's all beginning .
16 Her mother said it was all nerves , but what had she to be nervy about ?
17 Then Ron Dennis got up and said it was all John Barnard 's work and.McLaren 's and they were bloody geniuses and Niki …
18 But he accepted it was all part of the deliberate fuzzing that went with G9 .
19 She regularly conceded it was all part of the ‘ game ’ she was involved in .
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