Example sentences of "all that [verb] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that remained of him was his cap on Gottwald 's head . |
| 2 | All that remained of him were the words of his confused hopes , swimming on the pages . |
| 3 | It was , in truth , all that remained of what had been the North Pier , blown away by a great storm in the 1920s . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Humiliating him in that little paddock of privacy just outside the back of the house where he would try so hard to keep all that remained of his dignity and self-esteem . |
| 6 | 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 . |