Example sentences of "all that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a victory by Elliott in the final event of General Portfolio 's grandly mis-named Mile of Miles series was all that mattered to selectors three days after they chose him ahead of Cram for the Commonwealth Games . |
| 2 | The overemphasis on nuclear weapons and missiles at the expense of conventional forces was seen by many observers , both military and civilian , to have gone too far , too fast , and too soon ; but the political prize of ending National Service had been seized and that was all that mattered to the Macmillan Government in 1957 . |
| 3 | As she bathed him , soaping the fat little limbs with a slow , caressing movement almost hypnotic in nature , she told him how lost she felt , how she no longer knew who she was nor where she was and how all that mattered to her was him . |
| 4 | All that mattered to me , though , was his signature , his handwriting , the fact that he 'd licked the stamp . |
| 5 | All that mattered to him for the moment was the feel of the bedsheets angling Golden Girl northward . |
| 6 | She soon realised that Stephen 's mother thought she was demeaning herself by ‘ hobnobbing with the peasantry ’ but Stephen was grateful for her interest and that was all that mattered to Tamar . |
| 7 | All that mattered to these people was to kill ; how they did so had little significance . |
| 8 | That my greed for this house — this vineyard was all that mattered to me . ’ |
| 9 | I tried to argue that the Criterion had neglected to pay enough attention to certain lines of contemporary thought , above all that represented by Collingwood . |
| 10 | With all that said of course the transition period is going to be very dangerous for the kind of reasons we 've been talking about already and I think is right too when he says that er , the so called nationalist in the non Russian Republics , if you 're a Democrat in a empire , then you are inevitably a nationalist as well because you want your nation to have its natural human rights . |
| 11 | Brewing up was easy — all that had to be done was to shift a few boulders to reach a hot spot lower down , and pop a billy-can of snow into the hole . |
| 12 | All the constant changing did was to make the next scene you were doing contradict the one you did yesterday , so all that had to be changed . |
| 13 | All that seemed to her to be like a man writing , a foreigner to Italy , advising other foreigners , a teacher displaying his wisdom to likely pupils . |
| 14 | Sybil knew where all that came from . |
| 15 | ‘ All that came from your side — ’ |
| 16 | The British people will also note that all that came from the spokesman for the Government who have raised the tax burden to its highest level in British history . |
| 17 | All that came from the time when Central News was transmitted from Birmingham . |
| 18 | However , Pakistan have , in my opinion , paid for the Gatting/Rana affair and all that went with it in 1987 . |
| 19 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 20 | 1988 , etc. ) , there was a tendency to acquiesce in this conventional wisdom and all that went with it : the reduction of what ought to be a complex and multi-faceted debate to the simple adversarialism of ‘ formal ’ versus ‘ informal ’ , ‘ didactic ’ versus ‘ exploratory ’ , teacher as ‘ instructor ’ versus teacher as ‘ facilitator ’ , rote learning versus ‘ discovery ’ , ‘ subjects ’ versus ‘ integration ’ , class teaching versus group work , ‘ traditional ’ versus ‘ progressive ’ , ‘ bad practice ’ versus ‘ good ’ . |
| 21 | The Thaxted tradition which he established consisted of three features : firstly , a very thoroughgoing Christian socialism ; secondly , a marked attention to music and all that went with it ; and thirdly , a liturgiological care for distinctively English medieval antecedents . |
| 22 | But he had remembered — the name and all that went with it . |
| 23 | All that went by the board with the first wave of redundancies . |
| 24 | The only conclusion that is possible is , that until satisfactions other than those provided through the physical desires became necessary to enrich life , all that went before and contributed to the human body was ‘ good ’ , and any new philosophy or religion which emerges must be adapted to this . |
| 25 | ‘ I heard all that passed between you and my son . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But that was all that passed between us , ’ Ronni hastily assured Guido . |
| 27 | All that vanished with the invention of the printing press a few years later , but many of the books in the Corviniana were made in Italy at that time . |
| 28 | Hopper and Fonda were looking for finance , although all that existed at the time was an eight-page outline for the plot , which Fonda had been toting around . |
| 29 | T. Behrens gives the impression that he has more to say about himself than the progress of this mad love — to which he did not stand all that close at the time , brother as he was — has allowed him to come up with . |
| 30 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |