Example sentences of "that [vb past] everything [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It looked like a blaze photographed with a filter that transformed everything into shades of the same colour . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And that meant everything to him … |
| 7 | Sometimes he felt that it was only the power of his concentration that kept everything in order . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |