Example sentences of "and all [pers pn] had [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They had already lost one boat , their clothes were in rags , and all they had to eat was mouldy flour and a few dried apples . |
| 2 | The work they had done that morning was trifling and all they had to show for it was rough shelter and little comfort . |
| 3 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had ordered most of the stuff from a local catering firm and all we had to do was add the finishing touches to make it look Roman . |
| 4 | Peter Simpkins , who made the find , said : ‘ It showed up on a screen and all we had to do was dig it up . ’ |
| 5 | However he assured her that she could control the pain and all she had to do to achieve this was to look at a certain corner of the ward ceiling and the pain would go . |
| 6 | By the time she reached the boat once more , the banner had been fixed in place , and all she had to do was position herself against it , her body making the bold black outline of the letter T — Trends was the name of her company — emblazoned across the white silk . |
| 7 | Felipe was healing her somehow and all she had to do now was solve the mystery of Ana . |
| 8 | So anyway , she got over it and all she had to do she she tell her to stay in bed now for s so many days but she 'd be up again the following day and then the nurse 'd come and have a look under her feet and she 'd say you been up again she 'd say . |
| 9 | To all intents , a British plane flying home if anyone saw it and all it had to do to make the drop was fly in under eight hundred feet because many sections of the English coast have no low-level radar . ’ |
| 10 | He was offering me the trip of a lifetime , and all I had to do was take care of the meals . |
| 11 | You held your hand still on the page and you traced around each finger , and all the little contours of your finger joints were captured , and you would go around a few times , and each time the pencil was at a slightly different angle , so you got this aura of your hand , that was so much more accurate than you could ever draw , and all you had to do was put in the fingernails and the little wrinkles on the backs of your fingers and you really had something ? |
| 12 | I think it was a great relief for him to think that Tony DeFries would deal with things and all he had to do was deal with his artistry . |
| 13 | And all he had to do was be this other person and convince everybody . |
| 14 | And all he had to do was to stay in the sun and turn up on the lot when a suitable — or unsuitable ( he was used to taking the rough with the smooth ) — script came up . |
| 15 | He would n't want to be disturbed and all he had to do to get out was draw the bloody bolt . ’ |
| 16 | Twenty three thousand , and she left all carpets , furniture curtains and everything and all he had to do was just move in . |
| 17 | At Monaco , his drive-shaft failed and all he had to show for the race was his twenty-two laps in the lead . |
| 18 | So far London had taken Peter over thirteen years , and all he had to show for it was six box files bulging with notes , newspaper cuttings and botched openings . |
| 19 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |