Example sentences of "he [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 In studying a period and a phase in which what could be proved at the time to be shadows were so determinedly pursued , is he after all studying not an aberration , not a deviation from the normal , but the common behaviour of mankind ?
2 The confidence of Pericles ' exposition is magnificent ; but did he after all ‘ understand what was needed ’ ?
3 It was he after all who had led her to arrest Taczek , he who had indirectly led her into the chief superintendent 's office that morning to have her face sprayed with warm saliva .
4 He 's not Jesus Christ is he after all 's said and done , you know
5 He of all people should know , being what he is .
6 This view of kinship as an opposite to capitalist relations of production explains the vivid interest with which Marx and Engels examined the work of such anthropologists as Bachofen , McLennan , and Maine , who were all concerned with this topic ; but above all it explains once again why Morgan should have been so important for them , since he above all was the expert on kinship .
7 Nor was he at all happy with the idea of me swanning off to France with the Parsons .
8 A tall , lanky boy , bespectacled , easy-going , very good-natured , he at all times showed a loyalty and devotion for me which I reciprocated .
9 He was not , she noticed , a good driver , nor was he at all car-proud .
10 Nor was he at all anxious that ‘ corrupting ’ programmes be beamed at the impressionable population of Danu .
11 To — ‘ is he at all like you ? ’ — I must say — No — very categorically : setting aside personal appearances — he being stout — & good looking , — & I being ensiform , ( speaking botanically , ) that is — lanky — & considerably ugly , — we are , as far as I can judge — very opposite .
12 So entranced was he by all this technology that he half expected the same voice to thank him .
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