Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not what he had wanted at all . |
| 2 | He had believed after all the jogging that he would have the rate denoted as an athlete 's on his chart . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Was he perhaps not quite as indifferent to her as he had pretended after all ? |
| 7 | On the way upstairs , the porter remembered how he had struggled with all their luggage and had received no tip . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By the time he had dealt with all this , the quintet had dissolved : only Glastonbury and Chatterton remained . |
| 10 | However , after a year or so he had recovered from all his problems except cribbing and an occasional bout of colic . |
| 11 | But I am not that man , Thomas thought , shivering in a heap on the flower bed where he had dropped onto all fours so as not to be seen . |
| 12 | He had worked hard all his life and had served his country for four years and was looking forward to retirement in the home he had worked for all his days . |
| 13 | And he had acted on all of them . |
| 14 | He had arranged for the ‘ leaking ’ of a letter he had circulated to all the delegates due to attend the presidential election in Paris on October 9 . |
| 15 | The previous year he had disposed of all his costumes , props and scenery . |
| 16 | Apart from the last one which he had n't got to yet and the penultimate one which seemed to apply in America more than here ( here he had joined the golf club ) he had complied with all the rest . |
| 17 | He was an outcast among outcasts and proud of it ; it did n't mean he had to believe in all the mumbo-jumbo . |
| 18 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |