Example sentences of "he [verb] all the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | In the days when income tax was raging at 83 per cent , he made all the preparations , " bar the rubber stamp " , to emigrate to America . |
| 33 | He made all the movements of a man apparently answering a desperate call of nature . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Owner Ricci Burns says : ‘ Peter has a wonderful eye and he vetted all the outfits and knew exactly what would suit Tara . ’ |
| 36 | With light-fingered nimbleness he checked all the contents , drawers and secret hiding places in the dressing-case , finding everything intact . |
| 37 | He checked all the way around the boat — or at least , as far as he could — but he saw no driftwood , nothing . |
| 38 | He gabbled all the way to the police station about his favourite film noirs . |
| 39 | Mr Ames expanded the chain further to 44 shops and then , in 1988 , Mr Branson dropped the bombshell — he sold all the smaller shops to Our Price Records to concentrate on Megastores and the planning of Virgin Airways . |
| 40 | My dad he he usually goes to a pub er it is on I think it 's Road but instead of coming this way he goes all the way into town up the other end , you know past the Hotel , he lives at |
| 41 | And he goes all the way down that end and round . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | ‘ We must march with the century ’ are almost his first words ; and he marches all the way to the Lêgion d'honneur . |
| 44 | He asked all the men to go to one side of the room and the women to the other . |
| 45 | ‘ Anyhow , he got all the horses from Billingford Hall ; and about a month later he got the horses from Hoxne farms , and some time later he got all the horses from Redgrave farms . |
| 46 | ‘ Anyhow , he got all the horses from Billingford Hall ; and about a month later he got the horses from Hoxne farms , and some time later he got all the horses from Redgrave farms . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | ‘ He got all the heads , liggers , lunatics in Notting Hill out of their beds ’ , remembers Robins . |
| 49 | Which is if , I mean when he was giving lectures in government and binding , people would invited him would put up posters saying government and binding so he got all the wrong audiences . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | With his death on the brink of independence , he receives all the acclaim for this achievement and none of the obloquy attached to subsequent conflicts : even though his former BNA and his PVO became heavily involved in the insurgency . |
| 52 | Runners up were Manchester Metropolitan University 's stalwart entrant Roy Lee-Faulkner with one of his 18 entries : ‘ Now he 's made everyone else redundant he wins all the rounds of pass the parcel ’ ; and David Jones , finance director of FCO Ltd with : ‘ Now I know that the recession 's hit the profession . |
| 53 | His reflection was fed by information from a wide variety of sources — from the presidential staff at the Elysée , from his ministers , from officials and experts , from the abundant official documentation that passed across his desk , and from the media ( he read all the major French newspapers as well as the Daily Telegraph , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , and the New York Herald Tribune , and his normal weekday routine always ended in time for the eight o'clock television news ) . |
| 54 | He read all the radical papers . |
| 55 | ‘ He tried all the usual tricks . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Regular work for New Society and the Times launched him as a freelance editorial illustrator , and he has an impressive list of clients — in the '80s he drew all the covers for Penguin 's new editions of Anthony Burgess ' work , and his work has appeared in the Independent on Sunday , Observer , Radio Times , New Scientist , American Esquire and — among other things — in numerous advertisements and promotions for whisky in the UK , Ireland and the US . |
| 58 | I listened with great interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) when he recounted all the difficulties that one experiences in that unhappy country , or what is left of it at the moment . |
| 59 | ( It is strange : even though he has all the necessary information about them , terrestrial psychology is incomprehensible to him — the concept of love unfamiliar , so that he can not guess what a difficult situation he would create by his sincere , practical and well-intended question . ) |
| 60 | ‘ I 'll agree that on the For side you could put the things you listed the other day , that he has all the skills to set the trap and the perfect place to do it . ’ |