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

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1 This included having to study rod sizes , materials and changes in the amounts of electrical current to see how the effect depended on these , which was all for the future .
2 The former won , which was all to the good as far as the SAS was concerned .
3 Even the photograph , she had to admit , was a good one : Hilda would never look attractive , Viola thought to herself , but at least she looked dignified , which was all to the good .
4 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 .
5 They three boys — and Sara — was all brought up at Trebyan and they was all at the village school .
6 It was all over a Brazilian boy who looked after the props .
7 ‘ When it was all over the papers I feared that when I went shopping people would abuse me , spit at me .
8 The earth — it was all over the place — as if something had broken through .
9 Suddenly it was all over the place .
10 The afterdeck — of course those boats were n't so big as they are now — all where I laid , it was all over the deck .
11 Next day it was all over the school .
12 I tell you how bad our one was , it was all over the road , this , the , the river line
13 And the s Well you used to scrape some of it off because it was all over the
14 It was all over the place .
15 It was all over the place .
16 I was 13 and it was all about a family living with lions , starring my mother , Tippi Hedren , and stepfather Noel Marshall .
17 Take punk , it was all about a tight nucleus of bands who were all mates .
18 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 .
19 It was all about a woman who goes on holiday to a hotel in Switzerland .
20 It was all about the Scum , you would think they had already won the league the way the commentators were describing the display Saturday .
21 And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 ‘ Yes , it was all on the radio . ’
25 He really was a most exceptionally handsome man , but she knew from experience that it was all on the surface .
26 So it was all on the last set … in the last five matches between these two Lizzie Jelfs has won all five …
27 It was all for a purpose , of course ; little that I do is not , one way or another .
28 And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best .
29 In only one respect were my original living arrangements altered , and it was all for the best .
30 Hari 's face was pale and Emily told herself sternly that it was all for the best , together she and Hari would prosper .
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