Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [pron] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 2 | ‘ He was watching it all day on TV . |
| 3 | He was calling me all the time-awful things . |
| 4 | I think er through the figures that he was producing we all realized something was up and various computers flying around the place you know , and the figures produced by them . |
| 5 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 6 | yes it was a movie picture , yes been showing here , because when she said she was blind , I thought well what 's the good , but she said oh well , he , when he runs it through he sort of explains to , but he was using it all the time was n't he ? |
| 7 | He was taking it all so coolly , his mistress away with a past lover . |
| 8 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 9 | It was one of his favourite songs and he was showing them all in the lounge bar at Ingham 's how it should be sung one Saturday night . |
| 10 | I could I could n't understand wh why he was doing it all . |
| 11 | He was doing it all the while and they went Keith ! |
| 12 | and what happened was the Japanese production bloke he was doing it all himself the lot |
| 13 | He had said this as if he was doing us all a big favour . |
| 14 | I got erm , Hand That Rocks The Cradle , Universal Soldiers and and he was offering me all Jean Claude Van Damm ones |
| 15 | Perhaps he was selling it all off a stall or using the condoms on some young woman . |
| 16 | It was heavy on him too ; he was carrying it all in his mind , the whole picture of Charley , coming into the district , moving into the disused back of Belmodes ; and perhaps because Mouncy Street was what it was . |