Example sentences of "[was/were] all [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people from the highest paid to the lowest paid were all just one unit . |
| 2 | But erm when I lost my sight then he had to close that down and come back so we were all under one roof again . |
| 3 | We were all so busy making plans , living dreams , that somehow Clare and I — and perhaps Mother too — were blinded to the truth , so evident around us : the unemployment figures , the era of mass production , a new industrial revolution in which machines did the work of thousands of men ; even the fact that ‘ wireless ’ was no longer a novelty . |
| 4 | It was all jolly good fun as well , of course . ’ |
| 5 | It was all just small stuff , tenders and shuttles . |
| 6 | ‘ But it was all rather good fun looking back on it . ’ |
| 7 | I marvelled at the stone coloured like golden honey , the crockets and pinnacles , the needle-points aspiring to heaven , the bosses and badges blazoned in gules , azure , or … it was all very heady stuff . |
| 8 | He had to admit it — it was all very well hunting and growing things , but what you got was n't a patch on the food you found around humans . |
| 9 | And it was all so much eyewash to keep up their spirits . |
| 10 | From shopping to chopping to cooking — it was all terribly hard work leaving many people too shattered to enjoy the fruits of their own labour ! |
| 11 | Relationships were just too difficult , the sexes would never see eye to eye , it was all too much bother . |