Example sentences of "he [vb past] it all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually he was a very nice man , cheerful and good-natured , but the other side of him blotted it all out . |
| 2 | He made it all seem easy , producing an excellent meal , and the lunch party at the Commanding Officer 's residence went off without a hitch . |
| 3 | ‘ He made it all simple , ’ said Dick . |
| 4 | With his long legs , he made it all look easy . |
| 5 | Some man , he said oh , he made it all sort of proper . |
| 6 | He was theatrical by nature , and he lavished it all on her , complimenting her in the most exuberant terms , telling her that her engagement had broken his heart irreparably . |
| 7 | He got it all out of books . |
| 8 | That way he got it all . |
| 9 | He had to apologise about that young girl Carly because he got it all wrong . |
| 10 | The mail was uniformly trivial , but he read it all and then stuffed the torn envelopes and their contents into his pockets for disposal elsewhere . |
| 11 | He bore it all with bright spirits and was never anything less than an exemplary prisoner . |
| 12 | He bore it all very well , she thought , but by then she was past caring how he was taking it . |
| 13 | When Eva came back she hid his teeth , but he splodged it all up and ate it anyway . |
| 14 | He used it all on the pond , I reckon . |
| 15 | He suffered it all . |
| 16 | He surveyed it all from the safety of the trees . |
| 17 | When darkness came he ventured out , selecting a large potato — which tasted awful although he ate it all . |
| 18 | But he ate it all the same , Ellie noticed , as she hurried back to her chair . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sure he ate it all . |
| 20 | There , he was given a plate of magic fairy dust to eat and he ate it all up , feeling strong and happy . |
| 21 | I understand he finalised it all today . ’ |
| 22 | He organized it all and then I think was it a week before he suddenly said well we ca n't possibly have two hundred people walking along a nature trail that we want to protect . |
| 23 | The Mimulus was in fact a garden escape , but he allowed it all the same , while conceding that a purist would not . |
| 24 | As John Parker put it , in the King of Fools , he had it all , wealth , charm , good looks , and he threw it all away on an American divorcee , who even his closest advisers considered an adventuress . |
| 25 | For himself , he hated it all . |
| 26 | And when you think of a man earning about at the most two pounds ten shillings a week , one and sixpence was quite a sizable amount out of it , but eventually he paid it all off . |
| 27 | I 've gone round the car twice , I thought , that ai n't stopped but I did , you do n't realise it 's stopped cos I did n't hear the bib bib bib bib bib there 's so much foam anyway you do n't realise there 's none coming out the like fine dribbles coming out of fucking put the back , put the jets bit on he rinsed it all down just about got it rinsed and then it gives you like erm a blob like a wax blob , so I put that on there I thought |
| 28 | Meredith thought she detected a gentler tone creeping into his words , and felt comforted , but then he spoilt it all . |
| 29 | One day when he had sold a painting for a hundred francs , he spent it all on buying flowers for every woman who passed by in the street in a gesture that Modi much admired . |
| 30 | " I never had any pocket money , he spent it all . |