Example sentences of "he [vb past] everything [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 As he stowed everything in the boot , Ashley noticed dark smudges beneath his eyes .
2 He got everything into the character that I wanted .
3 The real trouble with him , according to the Anglo-Norman chronicler William of Malmesbury , was that he took nothing seriously , that " he turned everything into a joke and made his listeners laugh uncontrollably " .
4 He risked everything at the short 15th after his five-iron tee shot finished among the rocks .
5 The flat was mine , you see , but he 'd bought the furniture , so he took everything except the child 's cot .
6 He saw everything through a red mist .
7 He performed everything to the clock .
8 He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury .
9 In Three Men in a Boat he tells how , having gone through a medical dictionary at the British Museum — to check if he had hayfever — he decided he had everything in the book except housemaids knee .
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