Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] all the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the Jews of the biblical period , they of course knew of Yavan , which designated all the Greeks rather than specifically the Ionians . |
| 2 | Within a year his civil servants produced a document called " The Basic Principles for the Reform of the Courts " , which recommended all the steps Panin and Bludov had resisted for twenty years . |
| 3 | The two are not closely associated , because the white star is the closer to us by some 15 light-years , though presumably both condensed out of the same nebula which produced all the rest of the Hyades . |
| 4 | Its far end was crossed by busy Morley Street before continuing on to Lower Ashgrove , which led all the way to Grandma 's house in Lansdowne Place . |
| 5 | My right cheek has certainly been placed with admirable exactness under the focus of some invisible burning-glass , which concentrated all the rays of a Tartarean sun . |
| 6 | Which drew all the strands of all that they 'd learnt together . |
| 7 | You just ran that file which provided all the functions for that piece of software . |
| 8 | But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ . |
| 9 | It was a huge red machine which ate all the corn the farm-workers could feed it . |
| 10 | And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen . |
| 11 | Channel 4 said the three illustrations which caused all the upset would never have been transmitted in any case without further editing . |
| 12 | The Bill was referred to a Committee under the chairmanship of Lord Alverstone , which deleted the words ‘ or water ’ but added the equivocal expression which caused all the trouble . |
| 13 | ‘ Poor me , ’ said Rhoda , ‘ poor me , ’ and she poured herself another cup of sweet strong tea , which burned all the way down . |
| 14 | We went slowly through them in low gear , rolling like a ship in a heavy sea , our rigging of ropes , which lashed all the bags in place , creaking loudly . |
| 15 | There was also the contentious issue of discipline , which affected all the students . |
| 16 | The molasses triggered bacterial growths which consumed all the oxygen , killing virtually all the fish and other water creatures . |
| 17 | Wounded , and with his aircraft riddled with cannon and machine gun fire which stripped all the fabric from one side of the fuselage and almost completely severed the rudder control , Bradbury managed to reach the airfield and force-land . |
| 18 | Finn and his son Oisin were heroes of the cycle of epic tales , The Fianna , which celebrated all the gods and kings of Ireland . |
| 19 | There was one great clock mechanism buried deep in the warmer depths of the place , some vast assemblage of gears and creaking cogs which powered all the clock faces in the ramshackle shell of the castle . |
| 20 | It was the 11th , a par five , which knocked all the stuffing out of Lyle . |
| 21 | Back in the late 1940s , early 1950s , I remember my fishing mentor , the late Tom Kelly , Edinburgh , describing these wonderful , strange fish which displayed all the colours of the rainbow when they were caught ; and I could hardly wait to have a go . |
| 22 | Pay-workers were occupied in a variety of tasks which included all the ore dressing , i.e. preparation of the ore until fit for market . |
| 23 | He also received a large sum of money , which included all the commission Richard Branson had ever earned as his manager . |
| 24 | The spirit of true craftsmanship is , however , best seen in those items which , as far as is known , were unique in their time and which required all the craftsmen 's skills to achieve . |
| 25 | This would not necessarily conflict with the picture of word-meaning developed so far if a single superordinate sense could be found which covered all the variants . |
| 26 | Sometimes he was on the Numbers 8 and 9 routes , which went all the way down to Granton Square . |
| 27 | Cupertino , California-based Apple Computer Inc , which went all the way to Japan for its last major product introduction , will finally launch its first family of network file servers at CeBit , in Hannover , on March 25 , according to US press reports . |
| 28 | Which meant all the hullabaloo of a by-election , with a new man of their own to find , and the Larks and the Covington-Pyms trying to get their own man in . |
| 29 | What a beauteous thing is this cover of Bob Marley And The Wailers ' militant ‘ Survival ’ , which contained all the flags of the independent black African nations . |
| 30 | In response to these problems , a portable system was designed which contained all the information that a regular bureau would have . |