Example sentences of "it [be] [vb pp] all " in BNC.

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1 In it were tucked all manner of bills , receipts and postcards bearing on the activities of the club .
2 It is doubtful whether at this stage even John Barratt envisaged it being driven all the way to the veins at Paddy End — as indeed it was in years to come .
3 ‘ It taught him to settle and relax and it 's made all the difference .
4 It 's understood all six will plead not guilty .
5 It 's hoped all 500 operations will have been completed within just 6 weeks .
6 It 's eaten all the pastry !
7 And once it 's ended All
8 It 's meant all the locks have had to be replaced and the family is left with a feeling of uncertainty .
9 It 's expected all the redundancies will be achieved voluntarily .
10 I do n't know what it is , but it 's brought all these Glories up here .
11 And it 's took all the fire out of it he there ai n't no fire in that bottom one .
12 They say the stage is a respectable profession nowadays , well maybe it is , but I ca n't think it 's changed all that much in the five years since I left .
13 It is hoped all will not be lost with this giant swing of the pendulum .
14 Now it is assumed all in a household have an equal share of the total income .
15 The darts , the lumps of poison and the raw materials from which it is extracted all provide a challenge for others with a taste ( figuratively speaking ) for excitement .
16 Under what circumstances it is released we need to discover ; maybe it is only released under special circumstances , maybe it is released all the time . ’
17 SCO claims it was misunderstood all those long months we thought it was decommitting from ACE , shuffling the MIPS work back to DEC and favouring Intel .
18 And of course then when she had done it they used to fold it up they used to just get it then and go like that you know , and just fold it up and then when it was done all done you see , they 'd take it back to this here lady and then of course they used to pay you for it .
19 er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well .
20 It was remarkable in the circumstances that the First Symphony sounds as though it was written all at once in a burst of sustained inspiration .
21 So it was watched all the while like that ?
22 The benefits will be very substantial and I believe this initiative could be as significant to us in the future as was SRS when it was introduced all those years ago .
23 It was crowded all through the day and Melanie and Aunt Margaret tottered on burning feet by the time they turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ closed ’ .
24 It was fought all the way to the European Court of Justice , which decided in his favour .
25 Whenever possible I try to get a Lecture Theatre , erm but I was told it was booked all day today we were originally in presentation room then came , so be grateful we 're in the Board Room .
26 I was told later that the designer at the Natural History Publications Section nearly broke down trying to put the pieces together , just as it was thought all the animals had been spotted and labelled , another would be discovered ; I think this was an exaggeration but it was a very tricky task .
27 And it hu go And it was there and it was left all night , and next day erm the man came back again and he cut it down the back with a big saw , and divided it up and then it was taken to the house where it was er up and then salted in a big barrel .
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