Example sentences of "all [vb pp] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 2 | He was all curled up in the gutter , naked . |
| 3 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 4 | For — contrary to the legend that it was all thought through in a day — this theory was worked out in three main stages over the next half year . |
| 5 | It was all wrapped up in a knotted kerchief . |
| 6 | He 's like a gazelle , Lee thought , that once ran free and now finds itself all tied up in an unregulated zoo . |
| 7 | That was all set out in the recent Security Council resolution to which I referred in my reply and for which we voted . |
| 8 | It 's all laid out in the back room . |
| 9 | But the next thing we knew he was all kitted out in a blue and white sailor suit , smelling sweetly of baby lotion and with not a wet patch to be seen . |
| 10 | Downstairs you could n't see her hair because it was all screwed up in a knot . |
| 11 | If you find such terms as ‘ Uniform Edition ’ , ‘ Valima Edition ’ , ‘ Border Edition ’ ( and even ‘ Author 's Edition ’ ) you will almost certainly be correct in deciding that the volume can not be a ‘ first ’ but forms part of a , later collected edition , all dressed up in a special format — a ‘ uniform ’ , in fact . |
| 12 | Mum kept out of sight until he had left , then down the stairs she came , all dressed up in a long black taffeta dress , which rustled when she moved . |
| 13 | Kidderminster , Redditch , Blackpole and Worcester joined together to make their book donations and presented 32 books to eight local schools , all loaded up in a JS trolley . |