Example sentences of "[conj] all he have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 2 | Well my there 's never any please , there 's never any thank you , there 's nothing , I mean there are are n't they , when he was saying that all he 's done for her and they virtually like turned their back on them , he got out in all those winds and weather were n't it , but , we built there and he come out apparently and said I do n't want you having anything else to do with my kids , |
| 3 | At Monaco , his drive-shaft failed and all he had to show for the race was his twenty-two laps in the lead . |
| 4 | So far London had taken Peter over thirteen years , and all he had to show for it was six box files bulging with notes , newspaper cuttings and botched openings . |
| 5 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |