Example sentences of "that [adv] mattered " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a particularly original concept , of course , but the romance here is for Harley Davidsons and Marlon Brando in ‘ The Wild Ones ’ and every teenage attitude that ever mattered . |
| 2 | Not a particularly original concept , of course , but the romance here is for Harley Davidsons and Marlon Brando in ‘ The Wild Ones ’ and every teenage attitude that ever mattered . |
| 3 | I felt nature conservancy was something that really mattered . ’ |
| 4 | ( John 19.27 ) There she lost everything that really mattered . |
| 5 | While she may have been forced to permit some seepage of sovereignty to imperial institutions on some issues , she was never prepared to give ground on things that really mattered as , in the same way , Germany is not prepared to give ground on monetary union . |
| 6 | ‘ You know , if you read the collected letters of any writer — if you read her biography — you will always get a sense that there 's something missing , something biographers do n't have access to , the real thing , the crucial thing , the thing that really mattered to the poet herself . |
| 7 | I was just too busy with unromantic things that really mattered . |
| 8 | The important thing , the only thing that really mattered to her in those tense and anxious moments , was to reach and be united with Edward … |
| 9 | On a more serious level , Clinton was more in tune than his rival with the political issues that really mattered to women . |
| 10 | Pages were put together by gathering the material up and roughing it into a layout based round the principal hooks — the headlines and pictures which were the only things that really mattered . |
| 11 | Street Ceremonies arose as a result of a recent trip to Mexico ; I did no painting while there , but relied upon my memory , trying to recall the things that really mattered such as street sounds . |
| 12 | Yet in everything that really mattered , their concern was always for each other — and of course the children . |
| 13 | ‘ Nicola was known as a chatterbox at work but she was very good at keeping the secrets that really mattered . ’ |
| 14 | After all , had n't these past weeks taught Merrill that business was the only thing that really mattered to him ? |
| 15 | But it was n't sex that really mattered to either of us ; he used to say that I was his insurance and consolation in old age . ’ |
| 16 | Yet many an ancestor was probably saved through seeing something that really mattered , a sabre-tooth " tiger " perhaps , or a precipice , in the middle of the night . |
| 17 | Gunnell had to be satisfied with £23,000 but declared : ‘ The world championship was the only thing that really mattered this season . |
| 18 | Minter , had he but known it , was right as well as wrong : right that Harry was running short of cash , wrong if he believed that currently mattered to him a jot . |
| 19 | But after Dave Bassett 's side had clung to the 2-1 lead provided by John Gannon 's opening strike of the season , the only first that actually mattered was United 's position in the Second Division . |