Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [pron] all " in BNC.
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1 | In the flicker of an eyelid the hostility had vanished and he had become a model of charm and smiling good humour , as he politely asked her all about herself and answered her questions in return . |
2 | He eventually shared them all out . |
3 | He probably told them all lies like that . |
4 | He nearly blew us all to kingdom come once … . |
5 | He really said it all to me in a comment some years ago : ‘ The ICM must become the accepted mirror of the credit scene , and we must be wary of some things which can break the reflection . ’ |
6 | I 'm afraid Brian Deane was a bit of a liability , he really did nothing all game in the opposition box , apart from straying offside to deny Wetherall a good goal . |
7 | He simply posts it all back to the company concerned — without a stamp , of course . |
8 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
9 | After she has washed , dried and ironed the clothes , he quietly puts them all back in the machine at 60 degrees . |