Example sentences of "had been all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very same women who had been all for their daughters travelling abroad seemed suddenly to get bored with the idea . |
| 2 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 3 | The 80s had been all about obsessional lifestyles , body consciousness , diet fads , work-out videos , designer leotards , Reeboks and Aqua Libra . |
| 4 | Further , Curtis had informed Grant that the word on the streets was that the recent outbreak of violence and killing had been all about a territorial dispute between rival Triad and Mafia gangs . |
| 5 | Josephine , Cynthia , and Agnes had been all over the place . |
| 6 | Perhaps it had been all in her imagination , fuelled by her own desires . |