Example sentences of "all that [pers pn] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We can not have all that we desire in this life , ’ pointed out Joan in a tone remarkably like that of their confessor , Father Powicke . |
| 2 | All that we said in Part 2 about exploiting the control video gives us over the material is as relevant to the teacher trainer as it is to the teacher . |
| 3 | All that we use in our modern world is a comment upon the delicate balance of human hand , eye and brain . |
| 4 | Incredibly she had found not only helpful assistants who took delight in helping her , but all that she wanted in that one shop . |
| 5 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said Camille from the sitting-room and Scarlet felt happier : all that she loved in the world was safely indoors , not roaming the streets with the dispossessed , the vengeful , the undead . |
| 6 | That was all that he had in mind , as Prior Robert , bewildered and displeased by what seemed to him very grudging acceptance of a duty that should have conveyed honour upon the recipient , waved Jerome imperiously to the altar . |
| 7 | Edward hurled all that he had in his hands , the purse , the scent , which struck the rat in the paunch . |
| 8 | One way of perceiving this progression is as the struggle of the poet to come to terms with the nature of creativity , drawing on all that he sees in the imagery of lines 12–22 until the attainment of maturity in the ‘ momently ’ of line 24 , when he reaches a state of oneness with his environment and is free to channel its flow into works of art . |
| 9 | The Great Detective , for all that he figures in mere detective stories , is a figure to parallel with the great poet and the great scientist because in solving the sort of genuinely baffling mystery that confronts him , in fact he goes some way to solving a yet greater mystery , the mystery of the human personality . |
| 10 | No I do n't think they will but you ca n't really believe all that you read in a newspaper can you ? |
| 11 | She told us that her sister had lost her home and all that it contained in the December tragedy , and was still in hospital . |