Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did she know of him after all ? |
| 2 | She wanted to struggle against him with all her might . |
| 3 | Lovat ended that appeal by emphasising his belief that it was ‘ a most wise & prudent maxim that a man in power should do for those that he is pretty sure will stand & fall with him in all events ’ , and in general that was the major qualification for appointment to the judicial bench in eighteenth-century Scotland . |
| 4 | One is that he is rather clean and tidy and polite and fastidious as a person ; the sweatier , wilder , rawer , dirtier areas of human sexuality do not appeal to him at all . |
| 5 | Did n't you think of Him at all ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 7 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |
| 8 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 9 | In his introduction Norris acknowledges the difficulty of writing about him at all in such a context : |
| 10 | They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all . |
| 11 | Yet already they were ungrateful recalcitrant children , escaping from him in all directions , capable of forming new friendships and attachments . |
| 12 | ‘ Did you speak to him at all , Delia ? ’ |
| 13 | Otherwise you 'll , you 'll not speak to him at all cos I shall just pick the phone up and say |
| 14 | And when one of them did choose her , she found herself quite unable to talk to him at all . |
| 15 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 16 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 17 | You do n't look like him at all . |
| 18 | He should eat his fill of watermelon ( ‘ the best of all fruits ’ ) and ‘ rice boiled with spices should be preferred by him to all other eatables . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ How can you tell what 's been eating into him for all that time ? ’ |
| 20 | And she had wondered how it was she was speaking of him at all . |
| 21 | If she has to deal with him at all , even quite briefly , people start saying ‘ She 's always talking to that man , — who knows why she has so much to say . ’ |
| 22 | She had no intention of dancing another record with him ; Callum 's hands were far too slippery — in fact she was beginning to regret having anything to do with him at all ; the pleasant , confident smile that had greeted her at the beginning of the evening had now turned into a quite definite leer . |
| 23 | She did n't give one jot about him , kiss or no kiss , and she was going to make that perfectly plain by ensuring that she did n't react to him at all . |
| 24 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |
| 25 | And she stuck by him through all that . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't you wonder about him at all ? |
| 27 | She confided in him above all others . |
| 28 | Do n't know , I 've never spoken to him at all , do n't know |
| 29 | Much of his later work , achieved under the shadow of inexorably crippling and ultimately fatal illness , which he faced with the utmost fortitude , was latterly facilitated by the research fellowship conferred on him by All Souls in 1954 . |
| 30 | But then you hear a traveller at the railway station , prepared as a medieval knight , daysack on his front , chickenwire behind , was hit by five fat women , coming at him from all directions . |