Example sentences of "[det] that remained [prep] " in BNC.

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1 All that remained to be done by seven that evening was to attend the Troop Commander 's Orders or ‘ O ’ Group , and at last light dismantle the camouflage net , close up and move to the river .
2 THE Midland Bank , like the girl in the story , agreed the principle and all that remained to be fixed were the terms .
3 Lastly , all that Louis IX abandoned in favour of Henry III — his fiefs and domains in Limousin , Quercy , and Périgord ( the so-called ‘ three dioceses ’ ) and all that remained to the Plantagenets of the ancient duchy of Aquitaine — was to be held by the king of England as an hereditary fief .
4 He talked of all that remained to be done , of how he would do it all , bit by bit ; said that first of all the attic should be examined , for so much rain soaking in must have affected the beams .
5 It was , in truth , all that remained of what had been the North Pier , blown away by a great storm in the 1920s .
6 were all that remained of the boat at Sutton Hoo .
7 All that remained of the laughter of that morning was the cardboard box filled with dead peonies and shoved against the wall in the corner by the sink .
8 Together with a couple of swing boats , this was all that remained of the travelling showman 's fair that used to appear at the feast .
9 A few pale streaks of mauve were all that remained of the sunset ; inside , the room was cosy with shaded lamps , a thick brown carpet and rich mahogany furniture .
10 All that remained of him was his cap on Gottwald 's head .
11 All that remained of Brigstock Villa , shortly after work started last week , was a pile of rubble ’ .
12 Outside the circle a few mounds and stones were all that remained of the huddle of huts that had once crowded under the broch 's protection .
13 The Thun-Hohensteins had still to overcome a German bureaucratic hurdle : the customs officials could hardy believe that a German-Bohemian family driven out of Bohemia could want to give back to Decin a valuable painting which was all that remained of their former wealth .
14 To the east was a thin strip of coast , all that remained of the sweeping plains of Tiranoc .
15 The thirty-nine works Brooklyn acquired nineteen paintings , nine works on paper and three sculptures ; the Met gained seven oils and one work on paper are all that remained of the hundreds of works the Lowenthals purchased between 1943 and 1958 .
16 Across the gill a rusting compressed air chamber and a few ruined walls were all that remained of the Sir Francis Level , one of the last and most mechanised mines driven in the dale .
17 Within a few decades , forests and animals had returned to the shattered islands which were all that remained of Krakatoa 's outer rim ; and from the waters between them emerged an ominous smoking mound , sometimes growing at a rate of more than three feet a month .
18 A few miles away , in three directions , lay the crescent islands of Verlaten , Lang Eiland and Rakata , which were all that remained of the original mother volcano 's metamorphosis .
19 All that remained of him were the words of his confused hopes , swimming on the pages .
20 It was all that remained of a new bone-china tea set she had bought only last week .
21 All that remained of the abbey was a very large and rather ugly abbey church and the old abbey gateway building , which was now part of St. Albans school , where I later went .
22 Its bow-wave made a dark miraging ripple on the creamy blue surface of the sea , and that was all that remained of civilization when the boats had disappeared behind the western headland .
23 In the centre of the carbonaceous ball I could discern a small whitish marble which seemed to be all that remained of the original vegetable .
24 They were all that remained of the men who had worked here on the Project .
25 We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 .
26 She loathed herself for such pettiness , but she was so helplessly without any control over their relationship that pride or all that remained of it demanded that she administer these little pricks to his satisfaction , although she knew she had no hope of succeeding in puncturing it properly .
27 Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque .
28 All that remained of this important bastion were three long sections of the massive walls , now only twenty-five feet high .
29 It rose into the evening sky ; three odd , twisted branches tangled with the clouds , all that remained of the tree 's broken limbs .
30 They found the ruins of a flint and pebble wall , all that remained of an old stronghold , perhaps , or the defensive wall of a village ; perhaps a tomb place , or shrine .
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