Example sentences of "it [was/were] all [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all over a Brazilian boy who looked after the props . |
| 2 | ‘ When it was all over the papers I feared that when I went shopping people would abuse me , spit at me . |
| 3 | The earth — it was all over the place — as if something had broken through . |
| 4 | Suddenly it was all over the place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Next day it was all over the school . |
| 7 | I tell you how bad our one was , it was all over the road , this , the , the river line |
| 8 | And the s Well you used to scrape some of it off because it was all over the |
| 9 | It was all over the place . |
| 10 | It was all over the place . |
| 11 | I was 13 and it was all about a family living with lions , starring my mother , Tippi Hedren , and stepfather Noel Marshall . |
| 12 | Take punk , it was all about a tight nucleus of bands who were all mates . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was all about a woman who goes on holiday to a hotel in Switzerland . |
| 15 | It was all about the Scum , you would think they had already won the league the way the commentators were describing the display Saturday . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , it was all on the radio . ’ |
| 20 | He really was a most exceptionally handsome man , but she knew from experience that it was all on the surface . |
| 21 | So it was all on the last set … in the last five matches between these two Lizzie Jelfs has won all five … |
| 22 | It was all for a purpose , of course ; little that I do is not , one way or another . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In only one respect were my original living arrangements altered , and it was all for the best . |
| 25 | Hari 's face was pale and Emily told herself sternly that it was all for the best , together she and Hari would prosper . |
| 26 | ‘ He realized I 'd be knocked out and did his utmost to persuade me it was all for the best . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps it was all for the best you lost the baby , Helen , ’ her mother said when Helen went to visit her . |
| 28 | But it was all to no avail . |
| 29 | But it was all to no avail . |
| 30 | Still , if he wanted to formally emphasise the gulf between them , it was all to the good . |