Example sentences of "there was [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not know what legal or moral basis there was for it . |
| 2 | And that was all there was to it . ’ |
| 3 | That 's really all there was to it and Tony DeFries became his manager . |
| 4 | I just did n't fancy her and that was all there was to it . |
| 5 | He was suffering from third-degree ennui , and that was all there was to it . |
| 6 | That 's all there was to it . ’ |
| 7 | This kind of sex — " how Teddy Boys said goodnight to their girlfriends " — was shocking and dirty , but could n't be all there was to it . |
| 8 | If that was all there was to it , we could be pardoned some uneasiness ; we might feel that we have n't been shown much reason for supposing that there are any sentences such that all who understand them will agree on their truth-value no matter what the circumstances . |
| 9 | He would be the doctor attending me , and that was all there was to it . |
| 10 | Not if that were all there was to it . |
| 11 | Barbara Coleman did not sell much work and that was all there was to it . |
| 12 | If that was all there was to it , we should simply be highly sophisticated digital computers . |
| 13 | But that 's all there was to it . |
| 14 | My automatic response might just have had something to do with the fire that the Factory had predicted , but deep inside I knew that that was n't all there was to it , and that there was more to come . |
| 15 | That 's all there was to it . |
| 16 | That 's all there was to it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 18 | You know , I was Jessie and he was Harry and that 's all there was to it ! |
| 19 | You see , it was n't just a case of loving her and that was all there was to it , that might be very nice to know that God loves me , but I , there 's a sense in , I want to know what that love produces . |
| 20 | In Sussex the manufacture of cloth had never reached major proportions ; what little there was of it was scattered , chiefly in the Weald . |
| 21 | The village , what there was of it , also seemed deserted . |
| 22 | What there was of it was represented in Parliament by Labour MP Robert Maxwell . |
| 23 | It was Bessie Rayner Parkes who , in order to find out what truth there was in it , first bought a small press and some type , and she and Emily Faithfull took instruction in the trade themselves . |
| 24 | I was just working out what there was in it . |
| 25 | more of them , not only the young people , of course not , but I mean more of them , I know there always were some of more than there was before it has changed every value , even moral values and everything like that , have changed a lot the last twenty to thirty years . |