Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] [adv] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | This revolution in the labour force has affected almost all industrial economies . |
| 2 | She said the fighting had halted virtually all relief work in Mogadishu . |
| 3 | She said the fighting had halted virtually all relief work in Mogadishu . |
| 4 | Amnesia has blotted out all memory of the companies that prospered after issuing junk bonds . |
| 5 | The effect of the resignation was increased by its suddenness : within two days Law had laid down all his offices and gone abroad . |
| 6 | There 's ditches where er s the water has run away all the boulder clay and left maybe a ditch , this one was nine feet deep . |
| 7 | The adrenalin which had been pumping into her bloodstream since early the previous day had burned up all her reserves of energy . |
| 8 | The memory of empty bellies because their father had gambled away all the National Assistance was still fresh in their minds . |
| 9 | And in the space of three weeks I think the baby 's used up all her fat because she 's now just really , really pregnant . |
| 10 | Given the context — a decade in which a radical , market-minded government had restructured almost all of the public services , in an endeavour to ‘ roll back the frontiers of the state ’ and introduce commercial principles in the provision of social welfare — its contents are surprising . |
| 11 | Since the Bookman 's capture , nobody had paid much attention to any of his ideas and the Headmaster had taken over all his plans . |
| 12 | The World Bank has halted almost all structural-adjustment lending to the CFA zone , on the ground that the zone 's members have not met all the conditions needed ‘ to restore competitiveness ’ . |
| 13 | In the anthracite coalfield of South Wales , for example , British Coal has closed virtually all of its underground capacity and is planning to dramatically expand its opencast production . |
| 14 | The training has gone well all year and erm they are coming on just right for the race . |
| 15 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 16 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 17 | In effect , country has picked up all the old paraphernalia of the pop world : slick videos , stage shows , merchandising , fanzines and so on . |
| 18 | Although the nineteenth century had seen almost all restrictions on Catholics removed , the loyalists of Ulster still believed that to accept the authority of the Pope was to open the way to papal domination and the erosion of civil liberty . |
| 19 | His nervousness had grown steadily all day . |
| 20 | The couple had carried out all their agreed tasks and Ann had begun to reduce her medication . |
| 21 | The red death had taken over all in front of him but there were shapes moving towards him . |
| 22 | Unable or unwilling to curb her arrogance while her star was in the ascendency , the Empress had alienated nearly all those who had abandoned the King . |
| 23 | ‘ The producer had written out all the parts … |
| 24 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
| 25 | Well my brother 's covered practically all week and Brian 's doing tomorrow . |