Example sentences of "had [vb pp] all [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shipload of food and medical aid from Italy reached Albania on March 19 , one day after the Albanian government had placed all food distribution in the country under police control in an attempt to counteract speculation . |
| 2 | THE lady on the left had queued all day for returns . |
| 3 | Rab rubbed his eyes , caught short his greed ; he had won all night he could win once more . |
| 4 | Iraqi Prime Minister Sa'adoun Hammadi had said on July 15 that the government had disclosed all information about its nuclear facilities . |
| 5 | By now Miller had dropped all pretence at knowing where he was , and the night was exceedingly dark . |
| 6 | I thing the money we received from one or two gigs equalled what we had earned all year in Britain . |
| 7 | It would have been useful if the various studies had reported all morbidity results ( whether ‘ statistically significant ’ or not ) and in a compatible format . |
| 8 | For days now there had been no news from France , evidence that the Emperor had forbidden all traffic over the border , but that silence did not necessarily suggest an immediate invasion , but rather the concealment of exactly where the French forces concentrated . |
| 9 | By Friday Leith had pushed all memory of Naylor Massingham 's kisses to the back of her mind . |
| 10 | The tanker was the only vehicle I had seen all day . |
| 11 | They reached Hampstead before morning lessons were concluded , for the carriage had made all speed . |
| 12 | At bedtime he would say that his muscles and belly had ached all day ( a problem since his early years ) and it would take an hour and a half to get to sleep . |
| 13 | He was elected to the National Assembly in 1968 , and became Interior Minister in 1970 ; as Secretary-General to the Presidency he had supervised all government departments . |
| 14 | It was the first bit of luck she had had all afternoon . |
| 15 | Around the huts he had avoided all contact with her and although they stood side by side listening to her husband , he did nothing to acknowledge her existence . |
| 16 | It was the first remark she had volunteered all evening . |
| 17 | The Doctor waited until Bernice had abandoned all hope of recalling her long-forgotten theoretical mathematics . |
| 18 | Darwinism was certainly incorporated into the philosophy of progress through struggle , but the Victorians did not turn to that philosophy because they had abandoned all hope that the universe has a moral purpose . |
| 19 | She had abandoned all hope of getting her contract down in black and white ! |
| 20 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 21 | The men of Ruthyn had abandoned all caution , spurring their horses furiously , lengthening out in their turn into a long frieze parallel with the edge of the forest , every man mad to be the first to lay hand on the arch-enemy . |
| 22 | THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised . |
| 23 | Ford , whose new £35million movie is a box office smash in America had spent all day shooting the physically demanding scene in a huge water tank in Hollywood . |
| 24 | Young had spent all day here , moseying between the three-room Mayfair hotel suite , talking for 40 minutes at a time to every journalist lined up to see him . |
| 25 | It was n't much , compared to Store food , but to nomes who had spent all day hungry and miserable it smelled good . |
| 26 | She had spent all afternoon trying to ask Nanny more , but Nanny had been in a funny mood , laughing one minute and crying the next , and not making any sense of anything she said . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought you had spent all night asking them . ’ |
| 28 | Despite flying from New York the previous evening , she had spent all morning in meetings and was due to be photographed both by French Vogue and Elle that afternoon . |
| 29 | But the words came out just as if Garvey had spent all morning thinking about them . |
| 30 | Had Janet noticed how quiet Mr Ashenden had seemed all day ? |