Example sentences of "[was/were] all for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A self-proclaimed poineer and the ‘ first man to go the whole hog ’ with his business , the Wild Boar Company , he was all for setting the strictest standards of breeds , offering a product aimed at the ‘ luxury end ’ of the market . |
| 2 | However , she recently asked what it was all for if she could not have a child . |
| 3 | But the show was all for nothing : there were no punters out there , except for a scattering of people , hunched into anoraks , hurrying home to get out of the persistent drizzle . |
| 4 | He was all for the idea , and we exchanged addresses . |
| 5 | Her mother proudly showed her a room which was all for herself , with a pretty bed made up with white sheets and two pillows . |
| 6 | Murchison the Slinnart bobby was all for killing it and he had a stone raised to despatch it when I said no . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 9 | Alejandro was all for putting a bullet through this she-devil 's head and dispatching her to the nearest abattoir . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He looked upwards now at the bunting stretched across the girders of the platform , then said , ‘ With a little imagination you know I could dismiss the Coronation and take it that this show of affection was all for my being twenty-one today . |
| 12 | This was all for her benefit . |
| 13 | In only one respect were my original living arrangements altered , and it was all for the best . |
| 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 | He was all for sending Gladstone over to the ‘ bloody ’ Russians . ’ |
| 16 | Hari 's face was pale and Emily told herself sternly that it was all for the best , together she and Hari would prosper . |
| 17 | Tragically , it was all for nought . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | How she hated the way her brothers protected her , and her mother was all for it . |
| 20 | At the symposium , ‘ Are You Prepared for IT ? ’ , hosted by Zenith Data Systems , Gates spoke out on object programming , saying he thought the concept was just another hype that extends far beyond the reality available today — having said that , he said to look out for Microsoft 's Object Linking and Embedding 2.0 ‘ during 1993 ’ , saying he was all for any technology that will enable the economical re-use of parts of programs . |
| 21 | And it was all for nothing . |
| 22 | Macmillan replied urbanely that he was all for the plan , adding : |
| 23 | Oh , he talked about deals and the market , but it was all for effect . |
| 24 | Jim was all for going on , for expanding , for advancing rather than retreating , but Cliff was beginning to think that after all he had n't the temperament for it , he could n't stand the anxiety , he did n't enjoy the suspense : all he wanted was security , independence , freedom from worry , being his own man . |
| 25 | It was all for nothing . |
| 26 | ‘ He realized I 'd be knocked out and did his utmost to persuade me it was all for the best . ’ |
| 27 | Will worked hard all his life , and I think it was all for his family . |
| 28 | It was all for nothing ! |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps it was all for the best you lost the baby , Helen , ’ her mother said when Helen went to visit her . |
| 30 | The grand master of ceremonies , Amir Aslan Afshar , was all for the Shah 's keeping or selling his personal plane . |