Example sentences of "all that [pers pn] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 The Northumbrians were instructed not to establish as king anyone who was illegitimate ( a slighting reference perhaps to Aldfrith and his descendants , or , for all that we know to the contrary , to other rulers — Aethelwald or Alhred ) nor to conspire to kill a king who was the Lord 's anointed , and any bishop or priest who was involved in such a crime was to be expelled from the Church and any layman excommunicated .
2 Warm acceptance , and a compassionate and kindly approach , should be the marks of all that we give to others — and to our own children too .
3 I mean the focus of the plan and the way we 've approached erm trying to identify the appropriate level of of land takes into account all that we considered to be the needs of the local economy .
4 And in the corner of his eye — an anxious blue blur was all that she amounted to — this Soviet woman he was deliberately ignoring .
5 You are Friend — she studied the symbols of Friend 's identity with all that he meant to her of acceptance and caring , frightened that she was showing the nebulae of her longing for him too — but I can not read you perfectly .
6 Very often the history of an object is not known at all and there may be reason to believe that it is not all that it purports to be .
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