Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an order broadcast on Feb. 26 Saddam instructed his troops to withdraw immediately from Kuwait , although he continued to present all military developments in terms of Iraqi victory . |
| 2 | Although he had removed all trace of labelling from the cassette the Duty Men were not fooled . |
| 3 | Although he had anticipated all sorts of difficulties , he found a flat to rent . |
| 4 | On the odd occasions I met him , I felt that he 'd adopted all these trappings to keep off a world with which he could not cope . |
| 5 | No point in taking trouble with him ; no point in explaining that he 'd walked all the way up to the blooming rectory to set his mind at rest . |
| 6 | He began crying and shouting — that he 'd known all along she was having an affair and was planning to leave him . |
| 7 | On the following day , Ratsiraka said that he had made all the concessions he was able to make and would form a new government , with or without the opposition 's participation , within a week . |
| 8 | On being sued by the plaintiffs for breach of the implied duty of confidentiality , the defendant claimed that he had made all his calculations in designing the heater from information which had been published in a readily obtainable leaflet . |
| 9 | That he had gambled all their money away . |
| 10 | If there should be trees out there , swaying in the wind , then he would know that he had lost all sense of time and place and personal identity . |
| 11 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 12 | President Alfredo Cristiani Burkard announced on Oct. 28 that he had suspended all moves to reform , purge and reduce the size of the army , as set out in the UN peace accord of January 1992 [ see p. 38716 ] , until the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas had completely disarmed and demobilized their forces . |
| 13 | He said that he had known all the local eunuchs since his childhood , and that he still made all their jewellery . |
| 14 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 15 | In a speech on Kabul radio Najibullah said that he had ordered all provincial governors and local organizations to declare a ceasefire in their areas provided the mujaheddin agreed to abide by it . |
| 16 | Then Paul saw that he had emptied all the contents , and that the bottle was now empty . |
| 17 | Then Richard returned to Poitiers and from there , on 2 February , he sent envoys to his father reporting his success and announcing that he had pacified all parts of Aquitaine . |
| 18 | She could not bear to think that he had taken all that pure wrathful zeal into marketing or insurance broking . |
| 19 | For his defence , he would have to rely on one of the defences in section 24 ( paragraph 16–22 below ) , which would involve showing that he had taken all reasonable steps ( to withdraw the brochure etc. ) to avoid committing the offence . |
| 20 | An awkward pause followed , and Huy , feeling that he had learnt all he could , made no attempt to continue the conversation . |
| 21 | Fleury , of course , had no business being there at all , but Harry had sent him to the Residency with a message and while passing by he had found the defence so desperately hard pressed that he had forgotten all about Harry . |
| 22 | It was improbable that he had accomplished all this before 3.30 p.m. but , between then and the 4 p.m. discovery of the body , Hunter-Blair had talked to him . |
| 23 | Such an outcome would have been so great a blow to Edward II 's prestige that he decided to throw all his resources into reaching the garrison and destroying the besiegers . |
| 24 | It was said of the younger Duke ( 1733–1806 ) that he intended to cover all the surrounding hills with evergreen woods , and many of the finest hardy exotic trees in this country were to be found in the park . |
| 25 | When they reach their destination , the driver stops the car beneath a rare working streetlamp and his passenger feels a tremor of recognition , but is reassured by Valentin that he has heard all the jokes before and he wo n't be passing them on to his mother . |
| 26 | And even now that he has achieved all this he does n't stand still . |
| 27 | No manager , in any half-decent company , is able to get away with claiming that he has made all the improvements it is possible to make . |
| 28 | Dariusz ascertains that he has painted all of the figures from his imagination , directly onto the canvas . |
| 29 | Man may be distinguished from the animal by his capacity for non-violence , but it does not mean that he has shed all vestiges of the animal in him . |
| 30 | He is beginning to move on from the subjects which have dominated the last couple of years , feeling that he has gleaned all the experience he can from them . |