Example sentences of "he [vb past] all the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bottom weight , Polyfemus , has done well since joining Michael Robinson 's stable during the summer and he made all the running when beating Charter Hardware 1 ½ lengths over three miles , three furlongs at Chepstow earlier in the month . |
| 2 | Tony Martin increased his lead in the Ulster jockeys championship when he made all the running on Bye For Now to take a division of the Mares Maiden Race . |
| 3 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 4 | For my insurance assessment , he charted all the work that had been done — each filling ( type and size ) , every capped tooth , the bridge and the state of my gums , etc . |
| 5 | He checked all the way around the boat — or at least , as far as he could — but he saw no driftwood , nothing . |
| 6 | He gabbled all the way to the police station about his favourite film noirs . |
| 7 | He had absorbed enough knowledge of lighting in his career to know who was being given the best spots , and he fought all the time to get Therese pushed out when he was on stage . |
| 8 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |
| 9 | Yes you did it was er the advertisement I 'd seen or very similar in the Scotsman newspaper and I must admit when he got all the information I thought damn I should have gone for that myself . |
| 10 | This done , though not yet admitted to his brother or , presumably , to anyone else , he found all the justification he wanted in the words of ‘ Father ’ Millet — another of his father-replacements . |
| 11 | He grumbled all the time , but was really quite happy because he did not allow himself to worry . |
| 12 | He fulfilled all the promise of his physical grace , although his was a stylised kind of dancing and there was nothing flamboyant about it . |
| 13 | I mean i i i in a sense I think he was , he 's been criticized unfairly for , for this because he he , he copped all the blame for absolute egalitarianism , whereas in fact if , if you look at the details behind it he was aware of the dangers of encroachment on the middle peasant and was warning against that and saying look this should n't happen . |
| 14 | Lewis would never forget that if he forgot all the rest . |
| 15 | Well I was actually married in England because I 'm E , I 'm English , but one of guys , erm , for instance , he wore a kilt and he showed all the English what he wore under the kilt |
| 16 | The plan was to build a building and to endow it , and though we are very sad that Dr McDonald died before he lived to see his schemes carried through , he approved all the building designs , and made very full provision in his will , as he had promised . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He figured all the time he was talking he 'd be keeping me from smashing up his hand with the gun-butt . |
| 19 | He was barely able to conceal his fury until after he paid the postman whom he walked all the way out to the iron gate . |
| 20 | He walked all the way to the Cathedral brooding about that inside his new scarlet robe , with the blue mantle and golden links of the Order of the Sword on the shoulders of Nicholas before him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He walked all the way to Upper Street , near the bus-stops , before he found a free phonebox . |
| 23 | He made available to the newcomers he employed all the mechanism required to make films . |
| 24 | He switched all the door and window alarms on before going to bed and crashing out . |
| 25 | In fact , Constantine 's attitude towards Christianity seems to have been primarily a matter of expediency , for Christians by then were numerous in the Empire and he needed all the support he could muster against Maxentius , his rival for the imperial throne . |
| 26 | He needed all the help he could get . |
| 27 | He needed all the strength he had . |
| 28 | And he needed all the encouragement he could get , for the threats had started again . |
| 29 | Well , I remember my father saying of the old Baron that in his last illness he talked all the time of there being a grandson . |
| 30 | When Therese was on stage without him , he talked all the time . |