Example sentences of "[to-vb] he all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Crangle had tried to persuade him all night not to take the Bookman away but all Mr Slipper had done was smile and ask him not to be so unfriendly . |
| 2 | When he left I phoned to wish him all the best and he said , ‘ keep on picking people 's brains ’ . ’ |
| 3 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |
| 4 | Ian is OK — friendly and cheerful — but there 's something about Robert that makes me want to fight him all the time . ’ |
| 5 | The upshot of this long sessions was that Eliot asked me to send him all the relevant documents , which I did in a letter of 20 May . |
| 6 | He begged her to forgive him all he had done amiss , and alter a pause he said , ‘ God has forgiven all my sins . ' ’ |
| 7 | Reluctantly she admitted that she wanted to see him all the time . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , you 'll just have to seduce him all by yourself , ’ said Camille , reasonably . |
| 9 | Cos it 's hard to get him all together . |
| 10 | She hated to face him all pale and pinched , with heavy eyes and mauve shadows beneath them . |
| 11 | ‘ She was going to have him all to herself for at least three years , probably more like five , and a part of him for ever … ’ . |
| 12 | Thou'lt hold him as long as anyone can , I see that , but you must not expect to have him all to yourself . |
| 13 | Have + direct object + to can also evoke the idea of " having present for the purpose of " : ( 7a ) He had four examiners to ask him all sorts of questions . |
| 14 | He knew that he would be rash to expect everyone to obey him all the time ; he had secured the Moghul throne for himself by the skill with which he had played off his brothers against one another , and he distrusted most of the people around him . |
| 15 | The stark , blank space in the column listing ‘ father 's name and occupation ’ on his birth certificate was to haunt him all his life . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to show him all the beautiful things trees , flowers and birds but most of all I want him to see his big sister , Katie . ’ |
| 17 | The conversation then turned to the legends of King Arthur and Thomas discussed the epic poem he was writing , ‘ Sir Tristram ’ , asking Corbett to tell him all he knew about Wales . |
| 18 | His mother clung to him and wanted to tell him all about her mother 's death as well as telling him how happy she was to welcome Helen into the family . |
| 19 | She had been to see Enter the Dragon and started to tell him all about the code of kung fu as he hurried her upstairs . |
| 20 | I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it . |
| 21 | Well why would he want to tell him all his failures , especially that he 's viewing Nick as an opponent . |