Example sentences of "[be] all [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , Curtis had informed Grant that the word on the streets was that the recent outbreak of violence and killing had been all about a territorial dispute between rival Triad and Mafia gangs . |
| 2 | ‘ Yon lawn in t'front must be all on a couple o' acres , ’ stated Jonadab . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's OK , I can deal with it ; I 'm all for a good fight , especially with you as my opponent — it keeps life from being dull . |
| 4 | I 'm all for a bit of gossip . |
| 5 | I 'm all in a knot , I 've got the runs , I ca n't keep anything in . |
| 6 | Finally , a worthwhile person is always coherent , in the sense of being all of a piece . |
| 7 | It was all over a Brazilian boy who looked after the props . |
| 8 | I was 13 and it was all about a family living with lions , starring my mother , Tippi Hedren , and stepfather Noel Marshall . |
| 9 | Take punk , it was all about a tight nucleus of bands who were all mates . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was all about a woman who goes on holiday to a hotel in Switzerland . |
| 12 | She was all for a bit of ducking and diving , that 's how everyone lived in her estimation , but from what she had gleaned recently about her sons , it was a completely different lifestyle they were after . |
| 13 | It was all for a purpose , of course ; little that I do is not , one way or another . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ This was all as a full-time member of staff . |
| 17 | ‘ When George Lynch , Steve Vai and all the others came to see me , it was all within a six-month period . |
| 18 | The money was all in a pot . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A row was all in a day 's work for her , and at the end she 'd feel pleased with herself and at peace with the world . |
| 21 | It was all in a good cause . |
| 22 | She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later . |
| 23 | But the event was all in a good cause . |
| 24 | But the hard work was all in a good cause . |
| 25 | It was all in a good cause however , because they were taking part in a five-day team building exercise . |
| 26 | For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key . |
| 27 | But it was all in a good cause . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was all in a good cause . |
| 30 | 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 . |