Example sentences of "it was all [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When it was all over the papers I feared that when I went shopping people would abuse me , spit at me . |
| 2 | The earth — it was all over the place — as if something had broken through . |
| 3 | Suddenly it was all over the place . |
| 4 | The afterdeck — of course those boats were n't so big as they are now — all where I laid , it was all over the deck . |
| 5 | Next day it was all over the school . |
| 6 | I tell you how bad our one was , it was all over the road , this , the , the river line |
| 7 | And the s Well you used to scrape some of it off because it was all over the |
| 8 | It was all over the place . |
| 9 | It was all over the place . |
| 10 | It was all about the Scum , you would think they had already won the league the way the commentators were describing the display Saturday . |
| 11 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , it was all on the radio . ’ |
| 13 | He really was a most exceptionally handsome man , but she knew from experience that it was all on the surface . |
| 14 | So it was all on the last set … in the last five matches between these two Lizzie Jelfs has won all five … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In only one respect were my original living arrangements altered , and it was all for the best . |
| 17 | Hari 's face was pale and Emily told herself sternly that it was all for the best , together she and Hari would prosper . |
| 18 | ‘ He realized I 'd be knocked out and did his utmost to persuade me it was all for the best . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps it was all for the best you lost the baby , Helen , ’ her mother said when Helen went to visit her . |
| 20 | Still , if he wanted to formally emphasise the gulf between them , it was all to the good . |
| 21 | Well , it was all to the good ; after he 'd finished skiing for the day they 'd return to the cottage , and she 'd set out for home . |
| 22 | It was all off the top of my head . |
| 23 | The fact that it was all within the rules was immaterial . |
| 24 | It was all in the file . |
| 25 | It was all in the darting style of their manager , Ossie Ardiles , without the penetrating vision . |
| 26 | It was all in the open in those days . |
| 27 | I did n't know what it was all about till I got there and one of them said ‘ You may recognise this , ’ and it was all in the style of Camberwick Green . |
| 28 | But when I saw Bullitt , I thought , ‘ This was n't the script either , it was all in the director 's head . ’ |
| 29 | And it was all in the days before credit cards , when hire purchase was king . |
| 30 | No doubt the publishers would claim that it was all in the pursuit of the greater truth , in the way that the slimy tabloids and the unspeakable Sunday Times do when they are parading some particularly unpleasant piece of gossip . |