Example sentences of "[was/were] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was all for a purpose , of course ; little that I do is not , one way or another . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ This was all as a full-time member of staff . |
| 11 | ‘ When George Lynch , Steve Vai and all the others came to see me , it was all within a six-month period . |
| 12 | The money was all in a pot . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was all in a good cause . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the event was all in a good cause . |
| 18 | But the hard work was all in a good cause . |
| 19 | It was all in a good cause however , because they were taking part in a five-day team building exercise . |
| 20 | For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key . |
| 21 | But it was all in a good cause . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was all in a good cause . |
| 24 | 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 . |