Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [pers pn] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | When darkness came he ventured out , selecting a large potato — which tasted awful although he ate it all . |
| 2 | When he introduced the report in the house , my right honourable friend , the member for Kingston upon Thames made is clear that he accepted them all and that the government was committed to carrying them out . |
| 3 | Not that he plays them all that well , ’ he admitted , thoughtfully watching the harried youngster trying to be as tall as his tallest and most formidable charge . |
| 4 | Libion , the kindly café proprietor , was so exasperated that he had them all thrown out . |
| 5 | His real problem is that he believes it all . |
| 6 | Sarella noticed that he put it all in the past tense . |
| 7 | His breath ragged , his eyes near wild , he stared at her , and it came to him then that he wanted it all : the house , the money , and Theda , too . |
| 8 | He was frightened by a prophecy that his downfall would be similarly brought about by one of his own children , so he ate them all at birth — HERA , POSEIDON , Hestia , DEMETER and HADES . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , he hated the idea of dividing the family property , so he left it all to my elder brother . |
| 10 | , so he left it all open and I kept finding rolled up socks and of course there 's in the bottom of the airing cupboard where the tank is , and to pick them up and give them a shake and put them back again . |
| 11 | Nobody owned up so he ordered us all to fetch our kit downstairs and to spread it out in a line on the wet grass , while he went along inspecting our underpants and spare trousers . |
| 12 | but this time it was a genuine tragedy so he paid me all deposit I put in , he paid me all back , you know , I don I did n't want I do n't want to go caravanning by myself |
| 13 | The thing is my father was a journalist , and he taught me all the fucking tricks . |
| 14 | He was a brilliant raconteur , with a wicked wit and a razor tongue , and he had them all in stitches . |
| 15 | So watch them for a while and then he started dancing with them and he dance them all night and he just get in his hand . |
| 16 | There were five and he knew them all . |
| 17 | Well you heard what he said he wants his children to have a good education and he pushes them all the time , they 've got ta if they do anything |
| 18 | There , he was given a plate of magic fairy dust to eat and he ate it all up , feeling strong and happy . |
| 19 | From one dim object to another he let his eyes roam , and he saw them all clearly : the Louis Quinze couch between the long windows , the French glass-fronted cabinet in the corner opposite , the sixteenth-century iron-bound chest standing in the alcove , its lid flat against the wall , held there by a pyramid of logs . |
| 20 | But unknown to the gunman , a little boy had been stealing a ride on the bar under the carriage , and he saw it all . |
| 21 | We met with the head ski instructor first and he made us all ski down the slope individually so that he could put us into different groups . |
| 22 | Well for a number of reasons , that 's one of them that 's one spinner and one yarn , and he offers me all of those colours , ex stock , in sort of ten days delivery and er one carton at a time , if I wanted . |
| 23 | ‘ I spoke to him on Sunday night and he wished me all the best , while I thanked him . |
| 24 | So , and he eat it all ! |
| 25 | And he stuck them all together and the damn thing ran . |
| 26 | He was theatrical by nature , and he lavished it all on her , complimenting her in the most exuberant terms , telling her that her engagement had broken his heart irreparably . |
| 27 | So the cock and the hen allowed him to take a glistening burnished black and emerald feather and a soft creamy-white feather , and he bade them all good-bye and went into the clearing , and called to the West Wind , holding up his key . |
| 28 | He does the reconciling , he sees the sin , the hurts , the enormous chasm of unreconciled conflict , and he takes it all to a lonely cross . |
| 29 | In the middle of page twenty eight , George lists all his different erm qualifications that he says he has and , I am not quite sure what an is an M A Master of Arts , P H D which is a doctor of erm philosophy and and he puts them all together to make up this word , ABMAPHD which does n't exist obviously as a real word . |
| 30 | As John Parker put it , in the King of Fools , he had it all , wealth , charm , good looks , and he threw it all away on an American divorcee , who even his closest advisers considered an adventuress . |