Example sentences of "[pron] was all for the " in BNC.

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1 This included having to study rod sizes , materials and changes in the amounts of electrical current to see how the effect depended on these , which was all for the future .
2 And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best .
3 In only one respect were my original living arrangements altered , and it was all for the best .
4 Hari 's face was pale and Emily told herself sternly that it was all for the best , together she and Hari would prosper .
5 ‘ He realized I 'd be knocked out and did his utmost to persuade me it was all for the best . ’
6 ‘ Perhaps it was all for the best you lost the baby , Helen , ’ her mother said when Helen went to visit her .
7 He was all for the idea , and we exchanged addresses .
8 Macmillan replied urbanely that he was all for the plan , adding :
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