Example sentences of "[prep] all [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , after all that it did n't work ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For all that it remains an object which can not move itself or save itself from destruction . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | For all that it sold for $46,200 ( £30,800 ) ( est. $30–50,000 ) . |
| 6 | Without it , psychoanalytic theory could not account for all that it had been observed human beings could do to themselves and to one another . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Kermode thinks that this process , with all that it implies , is a fact of life , which has to be lived with , whatever we think of it . |
| 9 | But it would have been very different to make him a coach this winter , with all that it entails . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |