Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law . |
| 2 | Our rental car was called a Ford Escort , but you could have fooled me ; somebody had smoothed off all the corners . |
| 3 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 4 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 5 | Potatoes had flown to all four comers of the kitchen . |
| 6 | This latter possibility had been uppermost in loyalist minds since January of the previous year when O'Neill had broken with all previous precedent and invited Sean Lemass to Stormont . |
| 7 | The chair of the Georgian Supreme Soviet , Akaky Asatiani , announced on Sept. 6 that Georgia had broken off all official relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Hammond had a brush with the Commonwealth 's accounts committee in 1651 , but protested that he had accounted fully and properly for all the sums which he had received in all the three armies in which he had served ; he pointed out that his account from July 1649 on was with the army in Scotland , where by this time George Monck ( later first Duke of Albemarle , q.v. ) had succeeded him as lieutenant-general of the ordnance . |
| 9 | By this time Clever Folly had shaken off all opposition and proceeded to break the course record by 4.7 seconds in spite of 4lb overweight . |
| 10 | That had been the start of their friendship with Simon , who had joined in all the social events of the group that summer . |
| 11 | She could see Spencer quite clearly , he appeared to be holding court among the elderly distant relatives who had travelled from all parts of the country to be at the funeral . |
| 12 | At Forest , in the nightmare season 81–82 , he had fallen into all the usual high earning traps , plus the unusual one of becoming one of the city 's leading gay scene makers . |
| 13 | They had fallen upon all sorts of riches , some immediately apparent but others that took some seeking out . |
| 14 | The matrons with their marked brows , hooped earrings and prominent noses had hardly altered , though the scarlet and mulberry cloaks painted in the tombs had vanished from all but the youngest and luckiest women among Davide 's kin , for a single death in the family charred them all , turning young and old into sable-winged crow-women — in churches , at the threshing , at the well , as if flocking in the turned field . |
| 15 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 16 | But I am not that man , Thomas thought , shivering in a heap on the flower bed where he had dropped onto all fours so as not to be seen . |
| 17 | Mr Dakin burst out , but the old cow brushed past us and marched without hesitation into the stall which she had occupied for all those years . |
| 18 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 19 | Little knots of people stood about eyeing each other with an air of wondering why they had come at all . |
| 20 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
| 21 | Everyone 's solution was subjective , he thought , based on the resentments and jealousies festered in the long , bitter years of internal exile that the Shah had imposed on all those who would not recognize his sole and divinely inspired leadership of Iran . |
| 22 | On the way upstairs , the porter remembered how he had struggled with all their luggage and had received no tip . |
| 23 | It was one which she had been longing to ask him ever since the night on which he had come home so late , just before she had turned off all the gas-lamps . |
| 24 | It was most infuriating not to know what Gina had done with all the free loot . |
| 25 | Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain . |
| 26 | But a different system had prevailed at Wyvis Hall , or rather no system had prevailed at all . |
| 27 | But Miguel Rafaelo sat at the desk , looking through the files that Shelley had made of all the patients she had seen . |
| 28 | This was the most dramatic move I had made in all my twenty-two years , and , buoyed up by ten cans of lager , I was convinced it was a good idea . |
| 29 | Under existing arrangements oil revenues were simply added to government revenue , and in recent years concern had grown among all political parties that the oil boom had led to wasteful investment . |
| 30 | The environmental organization had written to all the country 's general practitioners in January offering a health education poster and booklet . |