Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mates had all scored and he inexplicably had n't , in spite of the money he 'd blown on all those lime-green cocktails for the bleached slag in the dress with all the red spangles . |
| 2 | This was n't what he 'd planned at all , a detour . |
| 3 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 4 | Escaping from under the pillow on the bed was the hem of a caftan , the soft kind he 'd slept in all the time I 'd known him . |
| 5 | I know he stabbed the portrait but he 'd got over all that and he never killed her … he did it out of sheer unhappiness and frustration … but that was months ago … you must believe me ! ’ |
| 6 | And as it was I could see him and I called him and he looked over and he saw me and he came dashing across all the gardens . |
| 7 | He seemed to cater for all tastes in his selections . |
| 8 | He pledged to work for all sides in the constituency . |
| 9 | Then , he began to talk about all the people in No. 43 . |
| 10 | He had a special sympathy for the underdog , and he enjoyed hobnobbing with all and sundry . |
| 11 | he here 's a Pat Boone record or something and all of a sudden he started dancing to all this and the old black bloke comes in and says oh my life , he could n't get any of the old blokes . |
| 12 | His daughter wrote , in a biography even more adulatory than most Victorian daughters ' biographies of their fathers , ‘ He loved conversing with all manner of persons , but I do think he preferred a parson to any other . |
| 13 | Indeed , the last straw as far as Coleman was concerned was when Hurley took a group of his Lebanese CIs , whose identities he needed to protect at all costs , to lunch down the street at a café full of officials from the Bulgarian Embassy . |
| 14 | At this time he decided to dispose of all but his essential possessions , and hid his library of books ( his most treasured possession ) with a view to selling them also . |
| 15 | On Jan. 10 Lewandowski told a Sejm committee assessing his candidacy for the post of Minister of Ownership Transformations that the performance of the share offer indicated that a different approach to privatization was needed , and he said that he favoured distributing to all Polish citizens free vouchers to be exchanged for shares . |
| 16 | How he managed to live with all I had going against him was an East Yorkshire miracle . |
| 17 | How he managed to live with all I had going against him was an East Yorkshire miracle . |
| 18 | Employing with perfect ruthlessness his formidable resources of charm and persuasion , he managed to extract from all parties an affirmation of the desirability of Commonwealth membership . |
| 19 | He kept whistling at all the girls , going shut up ! |
| 20 | He lay crucified with all his strength |
| 21 | This was not what he had wanted at all . |
| 22 | He had believed after all the jogging that he would have the rate denoted as an athlete 's on his chart . |
| 23 | At Forest , in the nightmare season 81–82 , he had fallen into all the usual high earning traps , plus the unusual one of becoming one of the city 's leading gay scene makers . |
| 24 | He had gone through all the Smiths ' names by the time he reached the yard , and it was there that Danny Waggett caught hold of him . |
| 25 | Hammond had a brush with the Commonwealth 's accounts committee in 1651 , but protested that he had accounted fully and properly for all the sums which he had received in all the three armies in which he had served ; he pointed out that his account from July 1649 on was with the army in Scotland , where by this time George Monck ( later first Duke of Albemarle , q.v. ) had succeeded him as lieutenant-general of the ordnance . |
| 26 | Was he perhaps not quite as indifferent to her as he had pretended after all ? |
| 27 | On the way upstairs , the porter remembered how he had struggled with all their luggage and had received no tip . |
| 28 | He considered , now , that he should have spent the time he had wasted on all that fiction in working on his great book on Samuel Taylor Coleridge instead . |
| 29 | By the time he had dealt with all this , the quintet had dissolved : only Glastonbury and Chatterton remained . |
| 30 | However , after a year or so he had recovered from all his problems except cribbing and an occasional bout of colic . |