Example sentences of "everything that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was true , she knew , that dragons were huge and fierce and wild and mysterious ; but it was also true , as she also knew , that not everything that was huge and fierce and wild and mysterious was necessarily evil , necessarily wanted to kill you . |
| 2 | For various reasons I am unable to publish a transcript of everything that was said , although some salient points are to be found in the book . |
| 3 | Klepner had been doing everything that was expected of him acting as Mueller 's eyes and ears in Europe . |
| 4 | Tug brushed his thumb along the edge of the paper and thought of everything that was written on it . |
| 5 | From here , he could see all the machines , everything that was going on . |
| 6 | We do n't know how Beethoven conducted his music or how he would have conducted if he had been able to hear everything that was going on , but we know from Brahms 's letters that he allowed himself sometimes great flexibility . |
| 7 | The collapse of a culture and the foresight of everything that was coming is here , certainly . |
| 8 | Little by little everything that was most English about her had been eroded and all she had left of it was her honesty , her natural courtesy and a slight reserve she could not entirely eliminate . |
| 9 | With his precision of line , careful musicality and swift little steps close to the ground , Shaw , in ballets like Les Rendezvous , embodied everything that was best about Ashton 's choreography and which made the Royal Ballet unique . |
| 10 | Men who only went into a shop for ‘ baccy ’ , matches or a paper , were sent round to the local grocer 's and butcher 's shops to buy up everything that was n't nailed down . |
| 11 | Everything that was easy for Victoria seemed hard for her and she never understood why . |
| 12 | All she had was a yearning for everything that was out there beyond her knowledge . |
| 13 | She was of course famous for her powers of observation ; she was better than any of us at using the mirrors which she had had installed everywhere to keep an eye on everything that was happening , or was about to happen and might need averting . |
| 14 | It was however in the late 1950s that a dog arrived who embodied everything that was thought to be correct , a living blueprint for further development . |
| 15 | He would fight for anything whatever , but he would sell everything that was worth fighting for . ’ |
| 16 | As supply was limited , and controlled by censorship , reading was conventional , but one soon discovered that it would be possible to spend a life-time reading books which were not obscure and still not exhaust everything that was worthwhile . |
| 17 | member of Master Humphrey 's circle , who resides with him and acts as his secretary and steward : ‘ something of a musician , something of an author , something of an actor , something of a painter , very much of a carpenter , and an extraordinary gardener , having had all his life a wonderful aptitude for learning everything that was of no use to him . |
| 18 | It was a time of great anxiety and distress , and yet everything that was beautiful and worth while seemed more precious than ever before . |
| 19 | I am in sympathy with the approach Tony Wedd advocated , which was to accept temporarily everything that was put forward , to work with it and see where it got you : the attitude of the technologist as opposed to the scientist . |
| 20 | The Tory campaign in this ward had begun by placing emphasis on everything that was deemed a threat to the mortgaged bliss of privatised nuclear family-life — gypsies , black muggers , Bernie Grant , the Lesbian and Gay Unit . |
| 21 | As the campaign wore on , greater emphasis was placed on the lesbian and gay issue and the threat that Labour 's policies posed to everything that was ‘ normal ’ and ‘ natural ’ . |
| 22 | They stood as symbols over the years of everything that was going wrong in the one-time fairytale marriage . |
| 23 | He felt himself passing his tongue over his lips ; it was unreal , everything that was happening ; he should be at home in the parlour , playing the piano , staring at the |
| 24 | Everything that was left , everything he and Rufus had n't sold , had gone to Ivan Langan with the house . |
| 25 | Sometimes you might even be lucky enough to be endowed with the qualities of the people you play — John Wayne , for example , was held up as being symbolic of everything that was good and right about America . |
| 26 | He embodied everything that was wrong about men . |
| 27 | A sussed practitioner of everything that was noble about rock 'n' roll in the past , he also presents myriad possibilities for its future . |
| 28 | And since , above all , in my view , Rococo has all the characteristics of a fashion , it is evident that this bias did not affect everything that was produced at this period . |
| 29 | Truth is that everything that was best in my father 's life happened during the war . |
| 30 | There are therefore , Devlin suggests , many matters of private morality which are brought within the ambit of the criminal law , for if everything that was not designed to preserve order and decency or to protect citizens were removed from the criminal law , several crimes would cease to be just that , e.g. euthanasia , suicide , attempted suicide , abortion , incest between brother and sister , etc . |