Example sentences of "he had [verb] [pron] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had given it all up and returned to the business world as a marketing executive . |
| 2 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 3 | He had supported them all their lives and what had they ever done for him except wait for him to die ? |
| 4 | There had been times , after all , while he 'd been serving his stretch in prison that he really had wondered whether he had hallucinated it all ; wondered whether he was losing his mind . |
| 5 | He had seen them all before . |
| 6 | He was used to being ridden do the same stretch of road several times a week , and he had seen it all before . |
| 7 | SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon said he thought he had seen it all but the hospital bombing had broken ‘ every precept of human compassion and morality ’ . |
| 8 | He was eighty ; he had occupied this patch since he was a boy and he had seen it all : drunks , thieves , prostitutes . |
| 9 | He knew what would happen to him , because he had seen it all before . |
| 10 | He had seen it all , of course . |
| 11 | He had asked her all about the kiosk , about where she lived ; treating her as if she was interesting and important , not a boring , silly old woman . |
| 12 | because he had abused her all those years , erm , but apparently she 's also got a , not the right sort of word , a pathological hate for men in general |
| 13 | Regretfully , he had to let it all pass ; he knew such behaviour would have created a bad impression with editors and got him laughed at — the thing he most feared . |
| 14 | He had foreseen it all , sixteen years ago , on that dreadful evening when his darling wife Lin Yua had died giving birth to his second son , Li Yuan . |
| 15 | ‘ When I saw that he had drunk it all , I knew he must have felt bad . |
| 16 | I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all . |
| 17 | I was sick to counter it , since I saw a glimmer of enjoyment in his eye ; he had said it all before , and liked saying it . |
| 18 | It was known on what path he would be returning — or at least , according to what he had led us all to believe . |
| 19 | He had done what all Europe had failed to do : he had stopped Bonaparte . |
| 20 | In fact he had worried about it so much that he felt now that he had done it all . |
| 21 | He had had what all men wanted , exactly as he had wanted it . |
| 22 | A debtor swearing an affidavit that he had resigned his all would not wipe away the claim his creditor had on him . |
| 23 | He had known them all his life , of course . |
| 24 | He had known them all , two whole generations , Wordsworth , Coleridge , de Quincey , Lamb ; Mme de Stael , Goethe , Schiller ; Carlyle , G. H. Lewes , Tennyson , Clough , Bagehot . |
| 25 | ‘ Really , ’ sighed Mr Punch when he had got it all off his chest , ‘ from the outrages which have been late perpetrated , one might think that one was living now in London as it used to be a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 26 | Yet he had found her all the same . |
| 27 | He had worked it all out , everything . |
| 28 | He was terrible , because he had started it all , he had determined to behave in that way . |
| 29 | After he had shown you all he had in him , you would have seen nothing that was not gentlemanly , honest and clean . ’ |