Example sentences of "all [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told us that her sister had lost her home and all that it contained in the December tragedy , and was still in hospital . |
| 2 | She treasured it , feeling that Paris , and all that it meant , was perhaps not quite over … |
| 3 | Such an innocent river , for all that it knew a secret , for all that one of its stones had put a man out of sight of the sunset ! |
| 4 | Without it , psychoanalytic theory could not account for all that it had been observed human beings could do to themselves and to one another . |
| 5 | She had seen all that it had to offer and tasted every one of its delights , many times . |
| 6 | For all that it sold for $46,200 ( £30,800 ) ( est. $30–50,000 ) . |
| 7 | J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1892–1973 ) , a Catholic by upbringing , wrote in praise of the remembered virtues of the British Tommy in the trenches during the First World War , and the enormous and highly improbable success of The Lord of the Rings ( 1954–5 ) , for all that it began as a cult in the United States rather than at home , struck a chord that was ultimately insular , tribal and boldly British . |
| 8 | That 's the reason why the needed not only to draw her self-portrait , but also to make it clear to all that it embodied something unique and irreplaceable , something worth fighting or even dying for . |
| 9 | Far more significant and revelatory was the arrival of the wireless , in the sense that it meant for the first time the voice of the outside world and all that it encompassed — good and bad — was heard throughout this enclosed community . |
| 10 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 11 | When it was certain that the City of the Horizon would collapse , and all that it stood for , I wrote to him , to try to get him to save himself . |
| 12 | Trade with Russia might survive if the Muscovy Company went out of business , but it was not easy to imagine that trade with Hudson Bay ( with all that it did for London furriers and re-exporters ) could continue if the Company lost its trading rights , and the Royal African Company was believed to be necessary for the slave trade until the 1690s , and the East India Company kept its position in trade with India for over a century after that . |
| 13 | Oh , after all that it did n't work ! |
| 14 | Following upon a letter written to Churchill by four senior cryptanalysts in Huts 6 and 8 complaining about lack of resources , the Prime Minister had ordered that on ‘ extreme priority ’ Bletchley should have all that it needed . |
| 15 | She had married not just the man , she had married his job , and all that it involved . |
| 16 | There would n't have been an Opera House at all if it had n't been for Joseph F Warden , the actor manager who settled in Belfast in 1864 with his actress wife Jenny Bellair . |
| 17 | She would n't have sought her independence at all if it had n't been at such . |
| 18 | It would have made no difference at all if it had not been received until 11 . |
| 19 | She had told no one at all but it had been the great dream of her life to go to Spain , the real Spain . |
| 20 | And Armistice Day is the best and brightest memory of all because it had been a war to end all wars and no one would ever allow such a thing to happen again … |
| 21 | Every step away from the cloister was a step further from salvation — bad enough in any case , worst of all when it meant a turning from the spiritual embrace of Christ to an impure love . |