Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] all the " in BNC.

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1 He was soon engaged on a five-year contract with the Dresden Opera , where he sang all the leading lyrical tenor parts .
2 Although he had all the appearance of an old hand with his beard and sea-salt 's pipe , he was a brewery worker by trade .
3 He said that he thought all the scientific evidence ought to be agreed by both sides before the trial . "
4 It is often said of the Prime Minister that he retains all the instincts and skills which were politically honed during his time in the Whips ' Office .
5 The prohibitions in the CSA 1985 are rendered ineffective where the defendant can show that , notwithstanding the fact that he fulfilled all the conditions mentioned in ss.1 and 2 CSA 1985 , the dominant purpose of his trade was not with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss for either himself or another person .
6 He was a modest and unassuming man who never gave the impression that he knew all the answers .
7 Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed .
8 He was simply aware that Gabriel 's allegiance had changed , that he spent all the spare time he could with Lucie and the girl , and that he no longer believed he was an angel .
9 Constant Drachenfels is said to have boasted that he kept all the souls of his victims , in some form or other , within his home .
10 But then , a few days later , Mervyn Stockwood revealed that he had all the time in fact been helping dissident priests in a variety of clandestine ways , still too secret to be fully detailed : not so much a Red Bishop as a clerical Scarlet Pimpernel .
11 But I think there 's a very strong argument Chinese revolution And , to a certain extent you can understand that people have to identify with something and the easiest thing to identify with is a king and a queen erm Chinese communist leaders of various sorts , Stalin even Karl Marx , you know , you can convince yourself that he had all the answers when of course , really , you must see these things as developing .
12 Dalgliesh thanked her and told her that she could go home as soon as she had checked with Detective-Sergeant Reynolds in the library that he had all the necessary information about where she had spent the previous evening .
13 He kept this up for several pages ; it was only later , using a different mix of ink , that he added all the other vocal and orchestral parts .
14 If , for example , prior to a sale , the wife transfers all her shares to her husband , he should subsequently have his shareholding valued on the assumption that he held all the shares on 31 March 1982 .
15 But it just seemed that he held all the cards , he made all the decisions .
16 The Inland Revenue form R190(SD) contains the certificate and the form requires the donor to state that he satisfies all the conditions relating to Gift Aid ( as to which , see 4 below ) , including the fact that he has paid , or will pay , tax equal to the basic rate on the gross amount of the gift .
17 ‘ I 'll agree that on the For side you could put the things you listed the other day , that he has all the skills to set the trap and the perfect place to do it . ’
18 I think it 's best if you go Alan so he said well shall we ask the children what they think , so he brought all the kids down
19 We did a great deal of work with music and in listening to sounds and in rhythms , and then a lot of work in which I actually read to him and he followed all the time what I was reading , so that he would try to link the sounds and the words together .
20 ‘ We must march with the century ’ are almost his first words ; and he marches all the way to the Lêgion d'honneur .
21 And he had all the numbers .
22 It is the singular most difficult shot in golf — he must have been 50 yards from the pin with a soft lie and he had all the trap to clear .
23 and he had all the boys pretty well turned out like that , cos that 's another brother who used to come with the mail with the wooden hand
24 Yeah oh yes he oh and he was erm being better educated than the majority of people in the Pleck he used to stand outside the Brown Lion to read the newspaper out to them cos they could n't read , and he attended all the weddings , all the funerals and er made the wills out and he almost was the father confessor for the Pleck , and when the old steam tram came off the lines down in the Pleck , when there was a steam train coming through there , he was the man who put it on the rails again .
25 As the young secretary of the War Cabinet 's Manpower Requirements Committee , he had learned his craft from Bridges and Beveridge ; he was President of the Board of Trade and in the Cabinet at the age of thirty-one ; he had a sense of history , he was numerate and he knew all the tricks of political manipulation and presentation .
26 I learnt he was an old seaman who kept an inn , and he knew all the seamen in Bristol .
27 Colin was brought there by Dickon and Mary nearly every day , and he saw all the changes that happened there during the spring and early summer .
28 He said that was all , thank you , to Mrs Strawson , he would let her know the result of the smear , and he walked all the way back to the reception desk with her where her £40 fee was taken from her .
29 And he goes all the way down that end and round .
30 He had his group in on Tuesday and he left all the pots out in the kitchen
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