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

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31 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 .
32 It was all off the top of my head .
33 ‘ When George Lynch , Steve Vai and all the others came to see me , it was all within a six-month period .
34 The fact that it was all within the rules was immaterial .
35 It was all like an insane nightmare .
36 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 .
37 It was all in a good cause .
38 It was all in a good cause however , because they were taking part in a five-day team building exercise .
39 For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key .
40 But it was all in a good cause .
41 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 .
42 It was all in a good cause .
43 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 .
44 It was all in the file .
45 It was all in the darting style of their manager , Ossie Ardiles , without the penetrating vision .
46 It was all in the open in those days .
47 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 .
48 But when I saw Bullitt , I thought , ‘ This was n't the script either , it was all in the director 's head . ’
49 And it was all in the days before credit cards , when hire purchase was king .
50 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 .
51 Do you know , my psychiatrist spent hour after hour convincing me that it was all in the mind , that nobody really was out to get me , that the world was n't conspiring against me …
52 It was all in the local newspaper .
53 It was all in the knees , he said , and he had liked to ski in better times .
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