Example sentences of "he had all the " in BNC.

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1 Everyone knew he had all the attributes a golfer needs , and his swing was poetry in motion .
2 Coleman had a powerful personality , and Smith admitted that he was also a man of great charm , adding ( on unstated evidence ) that ‘ he had all the cleverness of a woman at turning that advantage to account ’ .
3 The job was not difficult , since he had all the access codes .
4 He had all the social skills : I remember watching him tap a mesmeric foot to the tune of ‘ I Scream , You Scream , We All Scream for Ice Cream ’ .
5 He had all the gags and knew how to deliver them .
6 But then , a few days later , Mervyn Stockwood revealed that he had all the time in fact been helping dissident priests in a variety of clandestine ways , still too secret to be fully detailed : not so much a Red Bishop as a clerical Scarlet Pimpernel .
7 Although he had all the appearance of an old hand with his beard and sea-salt 's pipe , he was a brewery worker by trade .
8 In fact , he had all the mannerisms of the major proponents of the sport but few of their skills .
9 He had been born in England , had never seen India , spoke English as his cradle tongue and had forgotten all the Hindi he had ever learned but he had all the immigrant 's protective reactions and all his self-consciousness .
10 He had all the rugby he wanted , he said .
11 And he had all the numbers .
12 But I think there 's a very strong argument Chinese revolution And , to a certain extent you can understand that people have to identify with something and the easiest thing to identify with is a king and a queen erm Chinese communist leaders of various sorts , Stalin even Karl Marx , you know , you can convince yourself that he had all the answers when of course , really , you must see these things as developing .
13 From them , Pat felt he had all the available information and that kept him going .
14 Johnson : ‘ He had all the learning of his age .
15 Dalgliesh thanked her and told her that she could go home as soon as she had checked with Detective-Sergeant Reynolds in the library that he had all the necessary information about where she had spent the previous evening .
16 He 'd been in the house for nearly six weeks now and although he had not yet been called upon to take part in a Vibrancy performance , he had all the time in the world to practise .
17 But while these two enemies were formidable enough , it also appears that in some ways Cipriani was instrumental in his own defeat , or put another way , ‘ he had all the defects of his virtues ’
18 He gave one to Corbett before sitting down opposite , sipping from his own cup as if he had all the time in the world .
19 How could he say that , when he had all the makings of one himself ?
20 He had all the kids fan out .
21 Even though objectively , he had all the strength on his side , and if he 'd only stubbornly insisted , the allies would have had to accept the fourteen points , because there was no way that they just did n't have any erm , any clout really when when finally settled in peace .
22 He kissed her lingeringly as if he had all the time in the world and she felt a shudder run through her at the response he was forcing from her with so little effort .
23 FitzAlan ignored this attempt to free herself , as he had all the others .
24 Now he had all the time in the world to read and discuss the serious question : what can Third World countries do to alleviate their debt crisis ?
25 He had all the power .
26 It is the singular most difficult shot in golf — he must have been 50 yards from the pin with a soft lie and he had all the trap to clear .
27 He had all the women and nobody else had them .
28 Cos he had all the jockeys , the jockeys , no racing on a Sunday and he had jockeys to ride them instead of the boys in the stable .
29 She stared at him , knowing he had all the power he said he did .
30 He had all the skills , but there was also a huge question mark over his ability to produce the goods when it mattered most .
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