Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] all [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
2 | ‘ I soon learnt what made it all happen … what got you in the mood , eh Bella ? |
3 | What did they all think now , I wondered , all those German people living down there in the wreckage of their homes , remembering how their Fuhrer had promised them that not one bomb would fall upon the Fatherland ? |
4 | ‘ And what did you all talk about ? ’ |
5 | What did it all mean ? |
6 | What did it all mean ? |
7 | Anyway , what had it all amounted to ? scorned Alice , triumphantly examining that too-pale , anxious , strained face , with beads of sweat on the forehead : printing fucking garbage for this or that bloody faction in the fascist bloody Labour Party , printing dish-water newspapers for bloody liberals and revisionists , sucking up to shitty politicians on the make and bourgeois trash anyway doomed to be swept into the dustbins of history ? |