Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] have [vb pp] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is the cinema which has blended all these different forms together to create potent and resonant imagery , a visual and aural imagery of powerful locomotives , billowing smoke , clattering rails , and melancholy train whistles , allied to the ideal dramatic potential of a mixed group of passengers thrown together by circumstance for the duration of the journey . |
| 2 | Within the hour we 'd prepared all the equipment and stored the Harris 's hawk in the back of the Land Rover , and we were on our way . |
| 3 | I certainly would not want to attempt a summary of the route we have taken all the way from the mind-body problem to children trying to win chocolates ; but I do need to make some concluding comments to justify the bold claim in the first paragraph that constructivism makes the mind-body problem less intractable . |
| 4 | Much as she resented her all-out pursuit of Roman , Dana was the sister she had loved all her life . |
| 5 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 6 | Maria shook her head angrily , aware of the futility of trying to explain the dilemma she had faced all those years ago to a man whose self-centredness precluded his ever having had to make a choice between his own interests and someone else 's . |
| 7 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 8 | Graham 's voice sounded very loud , contrasting sharply with the heaviness it had held all through the conversation so far . |
| 9 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 10 | ‘ This has been given much discussion and at the moment we have used all the available funds . ’ |
| 11 | And the knowledge I 'd betrayed all I believe in to have you ? ’ |
| 12 | This was the keystone-moment in the strategy they had followed all that summer and autumn-if it failed , the entire structure would fall . |
| 13 | In the Telegraph they 've got all the things we 've been a lot of them |
| 14 | This is the case irrespective of whether the supplier himself has exercised all reasonable care and skill and has not been careless , so liability is strict . |
| 15 | braun and brain For the man who has achieved all he desires — except the perfect shave — here is the Flex Control 4525 from Braun ( £104.99 , rrp ) . |
| 16 | He was the man she had seen all those years before . |
| 17 | Florence Keith was a great authority on medicines and even on the ship she had brought all her favourites from home . |
| 18 | They eat the hay They 've bitten all the apple |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Of course you w of course you would Of course you would and it may be that what you will have to say is , Well look , erm I gave you the four per cent on the on the precision types and that that really has to stay , but by the time we by the time we 've done all the analysis on the er on the popular metrics , it will work out that it is is is only two per cent . |
| 21 | By the time I 'd worked all that out , you 'd gone , and in a way I did n't want to be beholden to you . |
| 22 | because by the time you 've got all the dishes done , the glasses have all drained off and then |
| 23 | By the time he had finished all the computerized records had been erased and a new record created . |
| 24 | By the time she had opened all the boxes , the floor of the little shop was strewn with cardboard and tissue-paper , and the air was heavy with scent . |
| 25 | evening so erm she said by the time she 's gone all you know , all day she 's had enough so she 's not stopping now . |
| 26 | For one thing , it was hot and sunny and not at all the weather she had associated all her life with Yuletide . |
| 27 | The chap who 's won all the money on the pools last week . |
| 28 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |