Example sentences of "it [was/were] all [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward . |
| 2 | And there was a , a book , I always regret not pho photostatting it , where one of the people who write on health er made the point that you start with the full page in the book , and the outer band of it were all pictures of the world , and then it was erm a particular sort of location in a town , and then it was a house and garden and then it was a room in a house . |
| 3 | The contract is back again , I done all this erm water pipe it were all gravel in there sunk into the ground you know big hole in the ground ! |
| 4 | In it were all kinds of animals and birds . |
| 5 | It was all part of the Rue Everlor . |
| 6 | It was all part of the defence of London in an emergency . |
| 7 | It was all part of their information technology training , a component of the national curriculum . |
| 8 | She regularly conceded it was all part of the ‘ game ’ she was involved in . |
| 9 | It was all part of the game . |
| 10 | It was all part of his punishment , to give him food he liked when it could n't be appreciated . |
| 11 | But he accepted it was all part of the deliberate fuzzing that went with G9 . |
| 12 | Some clearly thought it was all part of the night 's entertainment . |
| 13 | But it was all part of my compulsion to lose weight . |
| 14 | ‘ It was all part of the job , ’ he said with a grin . |
| 15 | Russian into business.Market stalls might not hold that much interest for the average Briton , but for Ekaterina Likhoda from Nizhni Tagil in the Russian Urals , ( see below , far right with South Wales Society president Paul Marshall — also pictured on the far left are Ekaterina 's interpreter , Olga Lewis , and Michelle Thomson , owner of the fruit stall ) it was all part of an unusual business-study trip arranged for her by the Institute 's General Practitioner Board . |
| 16 | It was all part of a private mythology that Mario had worked up to fit the American Success Story , and quite wonderful it was . |
| 17 | It was all part of him again . |
| 18 | The old man had never suggested before that they have a drink together ; maybe it was all part of that new world he had entered when he stood in front of Mr Albert 's mirror in his new suit . |
| 19 | Perhaps , though , it was all part of a war of nerves . |
| 20 | It seems odd that a man with so much of a reputation for sexual encounters should cringe from public contact , but it was all part of his reserve . |
| 21 | It was all part of the game that he enjoyed playing . |
| 22 | He could n't do the job , he knew it and his father-in-law knew it , but it was all part of the grand master plan : How To Keep Your Daughter At Home . |
| 23 | It was all part of his campaign to enable him to take part in Operation Raleigh in February this year . |
| 24 | It was all part of the mad social whirl that young women of her age had to endure . |
| 25 | He tells us in his autobiography that this decision produced a breakdown in his wife 's health , but it was all part of his efforts to become a pure Buddhist leader and hence bring benefit to burma . |
| 26 | And , by the way , " he added , as if it was all part of the same subject , " I think I 've come up with the safest combination of captain and crew for your journey . |
| 27 | They thought it was all part of his evident ‘ foolishness ’ . |
| 28 | She liked to imagine everything had come straight off the land ; it was all part of the wholesome image , ’ Jenny recalled . |
| 29 | It was all part of the service ! |
| 30 | He 'd raised his arms in a gesture of possession , and , even though she 'd known it was all part of a beautifully sculpted drama , Shannon had felt a thrill deep inside , as though she too were part of the kingdom the Viking had taken for his own . |