Example sentences of "he had [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of his reign , he had broken all his promises . |
| 2 | Mercer came to Emil and worried that the wine was n't cold enough , but Emil assured him he had lodged all twelve bottles among the many plastic bags of ice cubes : by the time the train left the station , all would be well . |
| 3 | If there should be trees out there , swaying in the wind , then he would know that he had lost all sense of time and place and personal identity . |
| 4 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 5 | Below and above him were overhangs ; he had lost all his equipment ; the few inches of rock beneath his feet threatened to crumble away ; a blizzard tore at him constantly ; his situation was entirely hopeless . |
| 6 | He had lost all sense of time and place . |
| 7 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 8 | He had lost all control . |
| 9 | It seemed he had lost all interest in that too . |
| 10 | At very much the same hour Edmund Mortimer came out of the deep sleep that follows fever , and opened his eyes reluctantly , remembering instantly and ruefully a day and a night of indignity and discomfort before he had lost all sense of place , time and direction , and finally of his own identity . |
| 11 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 12 | I 've never seen him go so mad , far worse than the usual Saturday night when he had lost all his money gambling and came home so drunk that we all had to hide under the bed . |
| 13 | He had explained all this to the police officer as the man confirmed when Rain and Oliver trooped in to see him . |
| 14 | His friends were calling to him , urging him on , and he was thinking that if this was what he had wanted all these years he was afraid of it . |
| 15 | On the following day , Ratsiraka said that he had made all the concessions he was able to make and would form a new government , with or without the opposition 's participation , within a week . |
| 16 | On being sued by the plaintiffs for breach of the implied duty of confidentiality , the defendant claimed that he had made all his calculations in designing the heater from information which had been published in a readily obtainable leaflet . |
| 17 | But he had blocked all her attempts to anoint him with love and sympathy . |
| 18 | He had seen all the commando-like forces , including Storm-Troops and Leopard Units for guerrilla actions in the event of a German invasion , drawn from existing formations . |
| 19 | Wearing his very best clothes and shoes , he had played all alone in the pouring rain while she and a balding detective discussed important business behind the steamy windows of a police car . |
| 20 | He had played all his cards but one — his last and best . |
| 21 | His mind was the richest repository of the past : he had been a child oblate at Canterbury before the Conquest ; he had heard all the gossip of the older monks as a child , and he remembered as an adult all that he had heard . |
| 22 | He had heard all about Oliver 's past from his mother . |
| 23 | " Very well , " said the king 's son , when he had heard all this from root to branch , " I will go in search of that Reed Girl . " |
| 24 | But for once he believed that he was seeing as he had striven all his life to see … |
| 25 | If he had to wait all day for Master to come home , that was all right . |
| 26 | He had to invest all his savings in this nursery 3 years ago and still it only just makes a profit . |
| 27 | That he had gambled all their money away . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the accident had occurred near the end of his shift and he had eaten all of the food he had brought to his work . |
| 29 | He had surpassed all our expectations . ’ |
| 30 | He had drained all the childlike wonder from his grown-up movies , but the grown-ups were still sitting with folded arms and stony faces , unimpressed . |