Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turns to explain all this mess . |
| 2 | All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records . |
| 3 | He failed to do all he could for the Jews and socialised with the Nazis too easily for the Poles ' liking . |
| 4 | Why on earth did he need to know all the damned details ? |
| 5 | He has to repair all of the machinery but this seems impossible since his workmates have borrowed his tools . |
| 6 | But now he has to face all those people in the great big world to whom he is just another person , starting quite often with his own brothers and sisters . |
| 7 | Will he promise to resist all attempts to increase the maximum permitted weights of heavy lorries ? |
| 8 | I told him the maps we should need , and he promised to have all the necessary Ordnance map sheets ready . |
| 9 | Yet at the same time President Clinton claims he wants to do all he can to complete the Uruguay round of GATT trade talks , and is backing the appointment as GATT 's new director-general of Peter Sutherland , an Irish former commissioner of the EC who has just the sort of political push to get a trade deal done . |
| 10 | She seemed distressed , ‘ I mean Balbinder , he used to just sit by the telly , even now he still … he wants toys … he does n't want to do the things , he wants to do all the time what he wants to do … ’ |
| 11 | We 're working for the King himself , and he wants to see all the plays . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ This person says he 's acting on your behalf and he wants to inspect all the mail . |
| 13 | Had he sought to bring all sorts and conditions of men into God 's saving presence ? |
| 14 | Logocentrism is the term he uses to describe all forms of thought which base themselves on some external point of reference , such as the notion of truth . |
| 15 | Consequently , in a spirit of scepticism , he came to distrust all dogmatic claims to knowledge . |
| 16 | Bruno felt perfectly happy in that bed ; he seemed to forget all his worries . |
| 17 | He seemed to know all about such situations . |
| 18 | He seemed to have all the answers , all the zeal … ( he was ) the structural engineer of Reaganomics . ’ |
| 19 | At the moment he seemed to find all of them constricting . |
| 20 | He vowed to sever all connections with the United States , ‘ against which , as against all other nations , I am prepared to draw the sword in British interests . ’ |
| 21 | He began to remember all the people he had ever known who had been hung . |
| 22 | When Ngo Dinh Diem was proclaimed President of the ‘ Republic of Vietnam ’ in October 1955 compromise seemed impossible as he began to suppress all opposition , whether political or religious . |
| 23 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 24 | He began to pour all his time and emotion into poetry , writing with a passion that recalls the English romantics , Oscar Wilde and the American beats . |
| 25 | He began to shoot all elil — lendri , homba , stoat , owl . |
| 26 | Not only would he have to destroy all evidence of his old body , but somehow transport himself planetside without raising suspicion . |
| 27 | ‘ Whey did he have to take all my teeth out ? ’ she mumbled . |
| 28 | Why did he have to ask all these questions ? |
| 29 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 30 | Precisely because a bishop 's hold on his diocese could be precarious , he needed to manipulate all the resources at his disposal ; contacts at court , family connections , the canons and the cult of the saints . |