Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |
| 2 | The most successful perhaps were those acquired as teacher training colleges , such as Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse which , without such use , might not have survived at all . |
| 3 | It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all . |
| 4 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 5 | Had he been an ordinary shop assistant it would not have done at all . |
| 6 | They might not have existed for all the notice Miss Jarman took . |
| 7 | Animals such as mussels would not be spread so liberally around the world — indeed they could not have evolved at all — unless they had a phase as mobile plankton . |
| 8 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
| 9 | When times were good , men married earlier and some were able to marry who otherwise could not have married at all — and vice versa . |
| 10 | ‘ We should not have come at all . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 12 | There is the thought that this story might fulfil me as nothing ever has done in all my life previous to this . |
| 13 | 5 bodies have been found but the painstaking search for 4 more has gone on all day . |
| 14 | It was here in Caesarea that Peter had his memorable lesson not to call any man ‘ unclean ’ — which , as a Jew , he would instinctively have done to all Gentiles . |
| 15 | Howard would surely have approved of all that , but as so often in penal reform , the very advance of which the reformers were so proud led to an ironic and unforeseen development . |
| 16 | If she had really been as indifferent as she had pretended to be , then she would n't have reacted at all . |
| 17 | Bonanza would n't have gone to all that trouble to set up a deal like you 're imagining . ’ , |
| 18 | I mean , we would n't have gone to all this trouble otherwise , would we ? |
| 19 | I can understand Leeds fans expressing frustration at the defensive errors going on , especially after Norwich , but the continual barracking Lukic and Newsome got from some ca n't have helped at all . |
| 20 | ‘ Or perhaps I should n't have come at all . |
| 21 | ‘ Julie would n't have resisted at all . |
| 22 | It turns out I need n't have bothered after all though . |
| 23 | In fact , the clothes Yuri had worn to our shoot — an American jacket and trousers with a grey shirt and fur-lined black trainers — would n't have looked at all of place on the dance floor of Stringfellows , but Yuri was after a smoother image . |
| 24 | Esther , Liz and Alix , who in Jane Austen 's day would never have met at all , met in Cambridge in 1952 . |
| 25 | If not , he would never have written at all . |
| 26 | Some may have taken part-time jobs so that they could cope with the increasing demands at home , some may never have worked at all outside the home . |
| 27 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 28 | As Gandalf points out , all Sauron and Saruman and the orcs have done between them is ‘ bring Pippin and Merry with marvellous speed , and in the nick of time , to Fangorn , where otherwise they would never have come at all ! ’ — and so , one might say , though it is beyond Gandalf 's knowledge at the time , to rouse the Ents , overthrow Saruman , save Rohan , and free Théoden to make his decisive intervention at Minas Tirith . |
| 29 | But without Bristol 's research , and Martin Pipe 's attention , he might never have started at all . |
| 30 | Is it better to have published and gone out of print than never to have published at all ? |