Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 I was also gratified by the immense good will and friendship towards Britain which I encountered on all sides .
2 She had revelled in old-fashioned melodramatic stories in days gone by , and had a stock of these expressions which she used in all sincerity .
3 She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt .
4 She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move .
5 I once chaired at , somebody may remember a sort of constitutional commission as it was grandly called , which we went through all these things with a tooth-comb in order to try to get the composition of the executive committee er , right and appropriate for er , this current time .
6 Particularly in doing a great part like Juliet which we toured in all kinds of places before coming here to the Other Place venue .
7 For example , on the comment form which we gave to all respondents at the end of the field-work , one policewoman wrote , ‘ The idea of research being carried out within the RUC , or indeed any police force , is a good one .
8 Perhaps the last occasion on which they figured at all prominently was at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia in 1856 .
9 Brooke J. observed that if such a residual jurisdiction did not exist , then the judges would be left with a duty to perform but without the power to perform it in a way which they considered in all cases to be just .
10 ‘ Fine streaming ’ — the allocation of pupils , according to their general ability , to classes in which they remained for all subjects — declined in favour .
11 Gagarin , in 1721 ) , the tsar 's ‘ Siberian satraps ’ enjoyed almost plenipotentiary powers in what they regarded as their own freedom , which they exercised with all the arbitrary and unbridled ruthlessness of a military dictatorship and the methods of a police state .
12 Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts .
13 Peter overcame this adversity in fine style and his later career with us was highlighted by his regular appearances throughout 1975–76 , in which he played in all eight Cup ties in Palace 's great run to the FA Cup semi-final , and then the following season , when he was captain at times after the loss of Ian Evans .
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