Example sentences of "that all [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 40 °s C in the shade and so quiet that all we heard was dust settling , the rattle of bones and the rustle of wings . |
| 2 | ‘ I said I was n't here to make moral judgments , that all we wanted was to understand what this project was all about and where it is leading . |
| 3 | No I know , I 'm just saying that all they sent was a , a statement book . |
| 4 | This father insisted that all they wanted was for their children to receive a schooling based on English traditions and values . |
| 5 | ‘ I did not say that all they did was bad . |
| 6 | subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron . |
| 7 | Insisting that all it needed was a little Lux , he put the painting on the floor and began scrubbing . |
| 8 | With a wry smile he thought to himself that all it needed was a few thousand square miles of northern forest such as might be found in Norway or Canada and they would look completely right . |
| 9 | I would have thought myself that all it needed was going boomph in and turn it and get the other one in . |
| 10 | It seemed that all I had was myself , and those few very close people called my loved ones . |
| 11 | I know that all I saw was wrong . |
| 12 | I realized that all I wanted was to stop him from writing on his own , and that this was possibly his own motive for working with me in Salamanca - to keep my true poetic self silent , subservient to his . |
| 13 | At the same time I felt so inordinately tired that all I wanted was to lean my face against that corduroy and shut out the world . |
| 14 | You thought my motives were suspect , that all I wanted was to get control of your practice and eventually edge you out altogether . |
| 15 | You 've just said yourself that all I did was try the windows . |
| 16 | Ive always liked him , and said that all he lacked was the domineering touch . |
| 17 | And as she worked beside Silas one question hammered to demand an answer — the question of how she could have lost control of her own emotions when she 'd known that all he needed was time to sort out his own feelings for Doreen . |
| 18 | Lothar believed that all he needed was time . |
| 19 | An article in the Jewish Chronicle last year , in which Wesker wrote that all he wanted was enough money to give the play a chance to be seen in London led to a benefactor , who wishes to remain anonymous , phoning him up and offering to underwrite the venture to the tune of £13,500 . |
| 20 | I do n't honestly know why he agreed to do the film , except that all he wanted was a fifteen-minute death scene . |
| 21 | Her rage was further fuelled by the fact that all she contacted was Roirbak 's answering machine . |
| 22 | Increasingly she felt , without putting it into so many words , that all she wanted was to read , to paint , and to make her father into that person she had seen with the Princesse : a light , carefree , witty , happy Jacob . |
| 23 | If only people would realize that all she wanted was freedom : freedom to think and act for herself , freedom to let life happen to her , instead of having to shape it to her parent 's expectations . |