Example sentences of "all that [pron] could [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 2 | A Dry White Season is all that we could ask of a Hollywood movie about South Africa . |
| 3 | Dalton Baldwin 's linchpin accompaniments are all that one could hope for in terms of grace and humour . |
| 4 | Like Pope , Leapor finds one woman who combines all that she could hope for : |
| 5 | And all that she could think about was , why did Josie want her out of the way ? |
| 6 | She had her bath , which seemed to help , washing away her sorrows as well as the accumulated scum of living in a house where , for a female , baths were difficult — she remembered Dr Neil standing in the outhouse in the yard , pouring water over himself , the water running beneath the short door — all that she could see of him being his head and his bare feet . |
| 7 | All that he could think of was to show her his work on the counter and the panelling , which was probably as good as anything that he 'd ever done . |
| 8 | Tuathal , who knew that thoroughness was the secret of success , had long since extracted from Thorkel Fóstri all that he could tell about Earl Siward of Northumbria , and had deduced a good deal more . |
| 9 | That is all that it could afford under this Government . |
| 10 | His moment came at a time when shoring up the old seemed all that mattered or all that anyone could think of . |