Example sentences of "[det] that mattered [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a victory by Elliott in the final event of General Portfolio 's grandly mis-named Mile of Miles series was all that mattered to selectors three days after they chose him ahead of Cram for the Commonwealth Games . |
| 2 | The overemphasis on nuclear weapons and missiles at the expense of conventional forces was seen by many observers , both military and civilian , to have gone too far , too fast , and too soon ; but the political prize of ending National Service had been seized and that was all that mattered to the Macmillan Government in 1957 . |
| 3 | As she bathed him , soaping the fat little limbs with a slow , caressing movement almost hypnotic in nature , she told him how lost she felt , how she no longer knew who she was nor where she was and how all that mattered to her was him . |
| 4 | All that mattered to me , though , was his signature , his handwriting , the fact that he 'd licked the stamp . |
| 5 | All that mattered to him for the moment was the feel of the bedsheets angling Golden Girl northward . |
| 6 | She soon realised that Stephen 's mother thought she was demeaning herself by ‘ hobnobbing with the peasantry ’ but Stephen was grateful for her interest and that was all that mattered to Tamar . |
| 7 | All that mattered to these people was to kill ; how they did so had little significance . |
| 8 | That my greed for this house — this vineyard was all that mattered to me . ’ |