Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] all [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This was all for her benefit .
2 ‘ We figured that if this was all about focusing the mind 's energy , he 'd have it at the ceremony , ’ Benny added .
3 This was all about them and somehow she and Fernando did n't exist .
4 She hung up on me , This was all to the good .
5 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 .
6 This meant all trains had to stop and , as Lydham Heath was our station , this was all to the good .
7 This was all as a full-time member of staff .
8 And this was all before half-time .
9 This was all in London , right ? ’
10 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 .
11 But this was all in the past !
12 This was all in addition to the usual lessons my father gave me on mathematics and history and so on .
13 ‘ And that was all on that first occasion ? ’
14 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 .
15 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 !
16 Well , perhaps that was all to the good .
17 But that was all to the good .
18 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 ?
19 But that was all behind him now .
20 That was all in the past , Aunt Nessy , ’ Charles put in now .
21 However , although that was all in the past the memory of it lingers on whenever a match between the two countries is mentioned .
22 That was all in aid of the companies ' desperate need to make massive profits .
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