Example sentences of "that [verb] everything [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACT is now a separate computer maintenance company that was split off from Apricot before it was bought by Mitsubishi , the Japanese conglomerate that produces everything from the four-wheel Shogun to equally rugged Nikon cameras . |
| 2 | Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence . |
| 3 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 4 | At last she found the shop belonging to Dai Jones , it was spread well back from the front door , a long dimly lit store that sold everything from flour and salt to patent medicines . |
| 5 | Personality is an all-embracing term that covers everything about you ; your outward behaviour as well as all the underlying factors , such as beliefs ( see page 21 ) , attitudes ( see page 12 ) and feelings ( see page 66 ) . |
| 6 | It looked like a blaze photographed with a filter that transformed everything into shades of the same colour . |
| 7 | Love is not the impure self-seeking that chokes everything in its wake . |
| 8 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |
| 9 | Callahan 's speciality was what I thought of as the ‘ establishing shot ’ : the picture that put everything into context . |
| 10 | I am hopeful that we will find a consistent model that describes everything in the universe . |
| 11 | The Ideal Home Decorating School gives you details of exclusive readers ' courses that cover everything from paint effects to dried flowers . |
| 12 | It is a remarkably piscatory street — a choice of three fish-and-chip shops , a jellied eel bar and an excellent wet fish shop that smokes everything from conger eel and whole salmon down to the humble sprat . |
| 13 | Overall there are some 80 plus codes that control everything from the font required , the justification format , the numbers of columns , kerning , tracking , leading and a host more . |
| 14 | That was a mythical representation of Scotland that owed everything to the prejudices of people who lived in the past and knew nothing of the realities of the Scotland that then existed . |
| 15 | And that meant everything to him … |
| 16 | It has been the word used to describe the style of today , a style that pervades everything from clothes to waste-paper bins . |
| 17 | Sometimes he felt that it was only the power of his concentration that kept everything in order . |
| 18 | Clowns seem to have a lower centre of gravity , or a magnetic field that converts everything to prose . |
| 19 | The Ford ‘ Edsel ’ , unveiled as the car that had everything in the way of advanced engineering , flopped like a dead duck with the public which presumably was little interested in engineering . |
| 20 | The idea that there is some grand unified theory that determines everything in the universe raises many difficulties . |
| 21 | There is a breath of punk in what they aspire to : the Do Anything You Wan na Do line of thought that infiltrates everything from their offstage character through to their dealings with the record company . |
| 22 | Screwy sort of argument — I mean , what she was really saying was half right on the nail , and half like a whirlpool that sucks everything into it . ’ |
| 23 | You could see everything that was n't visible out front ; the braced wooden frames of the canvas flats , the angle irons and stage weights that held everything in place , the fact that the ceiling was hollow and the space went on up to about another fifteen feet above , the gap crossed by a catwalk and a lot of cabling . |