Example sentences of "[vb past] he [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 2 | But what attracted him above all else to the magazine illustrators was their subject matter . |
| 3 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 4 | But as to why he knew God and obeyed him at all , his faith was not the least blind . |
| 5 | She cooked his favourite meals , kept the house neat and clean , obeyed him in all things and gave herself to him willingly and frequently . |
| 6 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 7 | The War had emptied him ; stripped him of all illusions . |
| 8 | James I , when he came to the throne in 1603 , according to Isaacson ‘ admired him beyond all other divines , not only for his transcendent gift in preaching , but for his excellency and solidity in all kinds of learning , selecting him as his choicest instrument , to vindicate his regality against his foul-mouthed adversaries ’ . |
| 9 | His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all . |
| 10 | As it turned out , Mr. Wickstead , although very fond of Richard , never taught him at all ! |
| 11 | I challenged him with all the dishonesty he had shown and all the damage he was doing to the paper . |
| 12 | I may say that despite my reputation of being trigger-happy where libel writs are concerned , I restrained him by all sorts of expedients . |
| 13 | As he approached his defeated enemy , he felt no sense of triumph , which surprised him after all the frustrating years of hunting him down . |
| 14 | I thanked him for all he had bought . |
| 15 | She blamed him for all this . |
| 16 | When Molly joined him he would ask hopefully if she were feeling tired or , even perhaps more hopefully , as though it relieved him of all responsibility , if she had the curse . |
| 17 | He did n't quite know why he 'd hoped that Alex could be cleared of the murder , but the confirmation of his friend 's guilt sapped him of all energy . |
| 18 | I just willed him with all my mind to believe me . |
| 19 | That night he prayed devoutly that he might be upheld in the purity which he had so far , maintained , in spite of the temptations and evil example which encompassed him on all sides . |
| 20 | Then he hit him with all his strength and knocked him to the ground . |
| 21 | Leith yelled , and as fury which she just could not contain spiralled out of control , her right hand arced through the air , and even as she hit him with all her strength , she was still yelling , ‘ Since it seems to be taking so long to sink in , you can bank on it — whoever pays my mortgage , you 're far , far at the back of the queue ! ’ |
| 22 | Loved him with all her heart and soul , thinking in her ignorance that her mother would allow her to keep him because adoption had never been mentioned . |
| 23 | I never loved him at all , Angel . |
| 24 | But Judge Karl-Heinz Schmoll ruled : ‘ The policy covered him in all situations in life . ’ |
| 25 | Deeply suspicious of his motives , she treated him with all the most obvious display of distrust of which she was capable , but her efforts seemed to leave him cold , so she decided there was only one course left open to her . |
| 26 | While the EC was debating its approach to the problems of Eastern Europe the president-elect of another distressed part of the world was nearing the end of a pre-inaugural tour which took him to all the major capitals . |
| 27 | He took him to all the different workshops de Chavigny maintained in different parts of Paris : he let him watch these highly skilled men at work , the specialists in metalwork , the specialists in inlay work and enamels , the gem-cutters , the gem-setters , the team of men who made the mechanisms for clocks and watches . |
| 28 | He said you were very kind to him , you and Miguel — hardly hurt him at all . ’ |
| 29 | In the strengthening light , Cassie saw him with all the clarity and shock of their first encounter , and her flesh shivered with excitement , as it had done even then . |
| 30 | She saw him in all his beauty , grace and arrogance — physically the most nearly perfect human being she had ever seen . |