Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he explained : ‘ It was not a play that should have toured at all . |
| 2 | In fact , the clothes Yuri had worn to our shoot — an American jacket and trousers with a grey shirt and fur-lined black trainers — would n't have looked at all of place on the dance floor of Stringfellows , but Yuri was after a smoother image . |
| 3 | ‘ She must have forgotten in all the excitement . ’ |
| 4 | She wished more than anything that she could say yes , or at least explain that if it had been left to her she would have come with all the will in the world , but there was her mother . |
| 5 | As Gandalf points out , all Sauron and Saruman and the orcs have done between them is ‘ bring Pippin and Merry with marvellous speed , and in the nick of time , to Fangorn , where otherwise they would never have come at all ! ’ — and so , one might say , though it is beyond Gandalf 's knowledge at the time , to rouse the Ents , overthrow Saruman , save Rohan , and free Théoden to make his decisive intervention at Minas Tirith . |
| 6 | ‘ Or perhaps I should n't have come at all . |
| 7 | ‘ We should not have come at all . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 9 | When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City . |
| 10 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |
| 11 | Yeah , we could have done without all this bloody hassle down there . |
| 12 | It was here in Caesarea that Peter had his memorable lesson not to call any man ‘ unclean ’ — which , as a Jew , he would instinctively have done to all Gentiles . |
| 13 | Had he been an ordinary shop assistant it would not have done at all . |
| 14 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 15 | Esther , Liz and Alix , who in Jane Austen 's day would never have met at all , met in Cambridge in 1952 . |
| 16 | It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all . |
| 17 | If not , he would never have written at all . |
| 18 | He must have agreed to all this . |
| 19 | Howard would surely have approved of all that , but as so often in penal reform , the very advance of which the reformers were so proud led to an ironic and unforeseen development . |
| 20 | He may have drowned for all I care . |
| 21 | I can understand Leeds fans expressing frustration at the defensive errors going on , especially after Norwich , but the continual barracking Lukic and Newsome got from some ca n't have helped at all . |
| 22 | If the whole business had not been impossibly difficult , she wondered if she would have bothered at all . |
| 23 | It turns out I need n't have bothered after all though . |
| 24 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
| 25 | So 1799 was a signal year for W. C. T. in more ways than one : he was now a respectable businessman with a respectable wife , and a Freeman of the City to boot — what can they have thought of all that back in Pig Street , Frome ? |
| 26 | It is common sense once you see the solution but it is unlikely that you would have thought of all of them a priori . |
| 27 | The Parish Council have asked me to express their grave concern that such an incident could have occurred at all . |
| 28 | So eleventh-century courts were centres for ceremony , business , education ; Charlemagne would have sympathized with all of these . |
| 29 | If she had really been as indifferent as she had pretended to be , then she would n't have reacted at all . |
| 30 | Bonanza would n't have gone to all that trouble to set up a deal like you 're imagining . ’ , |