Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked wild-eyed , and his hair was sticking up at all angles . |
| 2 | Few other landowners could afford to wait a generation for the return of their money , if it was to come back at all . |
| 3 | The nursemaid felt a withdrawal of affection and was hurt , not noticing that the child was shrinking back from all emotional expression ; the hugs and kisses once lavished on Marie had not been transferred to Pamela . |
| 4 | In its earliest history the building housed the guardian of the eastern gate , but it was taken over by the Fontana family and completely remodelled , a reshaping that was carried out with all the grace of Renaissance art . |
| 5 | It was simply out of duty to his only child that he was venturing out at all . |
| 6 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 7 | Greig 's 1976 , ‘ grovel ’ remark , the author believes , was hyped out of all proportion : it was only ‘ pre-match baloney ’ . |
| 8 | She did a total of twelve weeks in London , and was sold out at all performances . |
| 9 | Charlie downed in one gulp the tot of rum that was handed out to all the men up and down the trenches just before a battle . |
| 10 | that he knew what you were goin was going on at all ? |
| 11 | I did n't really have much idea of what was going on at all . |
| 12 | But the dig , which involved drilling three holes , was called off after all they found were eighteenth century foundations . |
| 13 | Alan the Reddler was woken up by all the greetings : |
| 14 | She was wearing a green school coat that was too big for her , so that her little pink hands stuck out all chubby from the sleeves , and she was weighed down with all sorts of rubbish — a shiny brown leather satchel , and a shoe-bag with a bunch of roses embroidered on it , and a hockey-stick . |
| 15 | But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it . |
| 16 | In 1954 , he was cut off from all classified material because of earlier association with Communists — who included his own brother . |
| 17 | But now , fallen from her cabin , she was cut off from all understanding , and had no strength to kick against the darkness that had come down around her . |
| 18 | ‘ Light ! ’ the cry was taken up from all sides . |
| 19 | Wilkes , as a symbol of defiant resistance to government , was taken up by all these groups . |
| 20 | The leadership unanimously gave permission and word was sent out to all Republican units in the North to encourage as many people as possible to participate . |
| 21 | In March 1992 , a questionnaire was sent out to all of the Society 's exchange partners in the hope that records could be updated and entered on to a database . |
| 22 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 23 | The jealousy she felt was escalating out of all control . |
| 24 | The Mensheviks and SRs were portrayed not only as counter-revolutionaries but as vicious saboteurs , the treachery of Stalin 's various rivals was traced to their earliest participation in the party , and Stalin 's role in and before the revolution was inflated out of all recognition . |
| 25 | He was striking out in all directions , trying to be a painter . ’ |