Example sentences of "it was all [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 It was all over a Brazilian boy who looked after the props .
2 I was 13 and it was all about a family living with lions , starring my mother , Tippi Hedren , and stepfather Noel Marshall .
3 Take punk , it was all about a tight nucleus of bands who were all mates .
4 There was n't any huge promotion or hype about the whole workwear thing as some people are suggesting , because it was all about a few people picking up on it and then promoting it off their own back .
5 It was all about a woman who goes on holiday to a hotel in Switzerland .
6 It was all on a scale much more appropriate for children than the high vaulting of his previous school and there was much more play equipment .
7 That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye .
8 It was all for a purpose , of course ; little that I do is not , one way or another .
9 ‘ When George Lynch , Steve Vai and all the others came to see me , it was all within a six-month period .
10 However it was all in a good cause and , like a lot of these things , fun when you left off and could look back and laugh .
11 It was all in a good cause .
12 It was all in a good cause however , because they were taking part in a five-day team building exercise .
13 For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key .
14 But it was all in a good cause .
15 Yet it was all in a losing cause because England still finished the fourth day of the second Test 43 runs in arrears at 231 for eight in their second innings .
16 It was all in a good cause .
17 However , it was all in a good cause as the sponsored walk organised by accounts supervisor Andrena Cowan , raised £1,300 towards the cost of an Ultra Sound Scanner .
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