Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , those two that were wrong were all over the place and not an effective sequence . |
| 2 | This was all for her benefit . |
| 3 | ‘ We figured that if this was all about focusing the mind 's energy , he 'd have it at the ceremony , ’ Benny added . |
| 4 | This was all about them and somehow she and Fernando did n't exist . |
| 5 | She hung up on me , This was all to the good . |
| 6 | João had been out with Fernando for most of the previous night and looked pale and tired , but Maria Iñes said this was all to the good , because it made him look older and readier to take on the responsibility of a wife . |
| 7 | This meant all trains had to stop and , as Lydham Heath was our station , this was all to the good . |
| 8 | ‘ This was all as a full-time member of staff . |
| 9 | And this was all before half-time . |
| 10 | ‘ This was all in London , right ? ’ |
| 11 | I then suggested that she take small steps , one at a time , further into the depths of the cupboard — remembering that this was all in her imagination and that she was still feeling totally relaxed . |
| 12 | But this was all in the past ! |
| 13 | This was all in addition to the usual lessons my father gave me on mathematics and history and so on . |
| 14 | ‘ Their Number Three was all on his own . |
| 15 | The weather as usual was all against us even in June , but the appointed time saw us anchored on our allotted station , near the East Bramble buoy in the East Solent . |
| 16 | ‘ And that was all on that first occasion ? ’ |
| 17 | The West Midlands and Cleveland County came up with £300,000 and £250,000 respectively , and that was all for the rest of England — a paltry £885,000 compared with the £2,325,000 raised from just twelve London boroughs . |
| 18 | True , it was astonishingly heavy when one came to lift it , but — as the philosophical cook observed — that was all to the good , as one slice would be enough ! |
| 19 | Well , perhaps that was all to the good . |
| 20 | But that was all to the good . |
| 21 | It looked like somebody 's curtains cut up — which was what it probably was — and if it provided a talking-point — well , that was all to the good , was n't it ? |
| 22 | But that was all behind him now . |
| 23 | ‘ That was all in the past , Aunt Nessy , ’ Charles put in now . |
| 24 | However , although that was all in the past the memory of it lingers on whenever a match between the two countries is mentioned . |
| 25 | That was all in aid of the companies ' desperate need to make massive profits . |