Example sentences of "[vb past] what all " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told not to push then , and I saw the midwife go to cut the cord , and finally it clicked what all the fuss had been about . |
| 2 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 3 | But I never knew what all the other stars meant , just that one constellation . |
| 4 | Like the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century , nobody quite knew what all its decrees meant until they started putting them into practice , and a lot of them , and I suspect a lot of Vatican Twos , need to be interpreted . |
| 5 | The peasants of the Nikol'skaia volost' , in the Duma elections as in 1922 , did what all others did throughout Russia . |
| 6 | ‘ When Graham was born , ’ says Kathleen , ‘ I did what all mothers do . |
| 7 | Watson duly noted the amount of ‘ gushing praise ’ the film was receiving , asked what all the ‘ fuss ’ was about and , on finding no real answer , concluded that the reviews were ‘ a bit over the top ’ . |
| 8 | At last , she realized what all the fuss was about . |
| 9 | It had what all lovers lovers , seek , secrecy , privacy , exclusivity . |
| 10 | ‘ I wondered what all the racket was down there . ’ |
| 11 | An Irish Base Metals spokesperson wondered what all the fuss was about : ‘ We regard contributions in this sort of situation as quite normal practice . |