Example sentences of "be all [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This popularity has not been all to the good , but having said that , the Rottweiler has now made friends who are concerned with his welfare . |
| 2 | She 'd been all over the Far East |
| 3 | Oh that 's been all over the fucking floor ! |
| 4 | It 's been all over the Pink Paper . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Schofield 's Europe , that 's his second tour , and he 's been all round the blinking Europe |
| 7 | Personally I am all for the guilty being run to ground . |
| 8 | Now you 're all over the bloody papers . |
| 9 | ‘ I could score on Wednesday and become a national hero , but a week after I could get into a little incident and it would be all over the back pages again and I 'm a villain . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I 'm all for the free market economy.i Maxham hobbled into the hall . |
| 12 | It 's all over the front pages of the local paper . ’ |
| 13 | it 's all over the damn ! |
| 14 | It was all over a Brazilian boy who looked after the props . |
| 15 | Within minutes my offer was all over the Docherty suite , and I became the source of hysterical laughter , ridicule and abuse . |
| 16 | Take punk , it was all about a tight nucleus of bands who were all mates . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Her talk was all about the recent fine weather , the record yield , the completion of harvest — all but the linseed . |
| 19 | Our supper in July 1981 , however , was all about the personal positions of other people . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In only one respect were my original living arrangements altered , and it was all for the best . |
| 22 | Hari 's face was pale and Emily told herself sternly that it was all for the best , together she and Hari would prosper . |
| 23 | ‘ He realized I 'd be knocked out and did his utmost to persuade me it was all for the best . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps it was all for the best you lost the baby , Helen , ’ her mother said when Helen went to visit her . |
| 25 | In the first series the emphasis was all on the very street-sussed young women who went out and solved all kinds of crimes , problems and so on . |
| 26 | So it was all on the last set … in the last five matches between these two Lizzie Jelfs has won all five … |
| 27 | ‘ This was all as a full-time member of staff . |
| 28 | The former won , which was all to the good as far as the SAS was concerned . |
| 29 | It was all like an insane nightmare . |
| 30 | ‘ When George Lynch , Steve Vai and all the others came to see me , it was all within a six-month period . |