Example sentences of "had all [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By the summer of 1419 all Normandy was his : the major walled towns of the duchy , Caen , Falaise , Cherbourg , and Rouen had all fallen to the English besiegers .
2 ’ Sergei 's troubles had all begun with an adulterous rendezvous in Gorky with a blind woman called Olga .
3 Before long English , French , Danish and Basque whale-hunters had all joined in the lucrative trade .
4 The fetid stench of the darkened hut , the mind-dizzying rice alcohol , even Paul 's mocking laughter had all fused into a delicious composite memory now .
5 When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones .
6 At the time Rachel herself had still been doing her training but they had all worked at the same hospital — David as a senior house officer and Jennifer as a staff nurse on Orthopaedics .
7 ( Over the past two days , the platoons had all competed in a punishing forced march against the clock , followed by a shooting match . )
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