Example sentences of "[was/were] all he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ruination , ’ was all he had to say . |
| 2 | There was still a job to do , and although it might not seem much in comparison to the past , it was all he had left . |
| 3 | It was all he had left to bind him to reality . |
| 4 | He had warned her that desire was all he had to offer her , and he had probably assumed that his warning had hit home . |
| 5 | I — ’ was all he managed to get out . |
| 6 | £20 was all he 'd got for one beast . |
| 7 | ‘ He wanted to marry me — he told me I was all he needed to make his life perfect . |
| 8 | She was well and with child ; that was all he needed to know . |
| 9 | If the sentence ‘ God exists ’ entails no more than that certain types of phenomena occur in certain sequences , then to assert the existence of a god will be simply equivalent to asserting that there is the requisite regularity in nature ; and no religious man would admit that this was all he intended to assert in asserting the existence of a god . |