Example sentences of "all that [pers pn] [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er , yes er , I would have been er , I think if I 'd still been in Jim 's place , er quite rightly so , getting all that we can for the town . |
| 2 | Before they sailed from London they had undertaken to do all that they could under all the emergencies of the voyage . |
| 3 | Addressed to the archbishop and all the prelates assembled at Lambeth , it commanded them , on their oaths of fealty , to do all that they could for the defence and conservation of the king 's rights and of his realm ; it then continued : |
| 4 | From the theatrical magazines on which she spent every spare penny , she learned all that she could about her . |
| 5 | Civilians were fleeing and the Commissioner for the Dockyard sought leave of the Admiralty to destroy all that he could of the yard to prevent it falling into enemy hands . |
| 6 | Two days ago , after his daughter had told him her story , he had immediately contacted an enquiry agent whom he knew to be trustworthy and told him to find out all that he could about Dr Neil Cochrane , Sir Alastair Cochrane 's younger brother . |
| 7 | It appears that William on his deathbed confessed that he had indulged in a fraud in getting his marriage to Adelizia nullified and at the eleventh hour did all that he could for Mabel 's succession as his heir . |
| 8 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport is doing all that he can within Europe to achieve the speedy adoption of a Europewide directive , on which Great Britain has been in the lead , to get our Western European car manufacturing colleagues to do exactly the same . |
| 9 | Well perhaps this is a good time just to take stock and to say I know that I 'm not all that I should be and all that I ought to be , but by this time next year I 'm going to be a bit better than I am just now , in spiritual terms . |
| 10 | Oh I think I 've told you about all that I can about the glen . |
| 11 | Clearly this Government has a political and moral duty to do all that it can for Shetland , ’ she added . |