Example sentences of "had [verb] all [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in the local press joked that if he had done all the write-up said then he must have joined the police when he , was about 7 ! |
| 2 | I had done all the cooking and was waiting for my husband to come home . |
| 3 | First of all I was invited to lunch in Leeds and they sent the helicopter for me , piloted by Captain John Leeson , who had done all the flying for the aerial shots in the film . |
| 4 | Sharpe said White had done all the punching but he was found guilty and fined £100 , ordered to pay £50 compensation , with £138 costs . |
| 5 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 6 | At last , the man who had done all the talking said that while he , speaking for the I.R.A. , was grateful for the support offered , they Bert and Jasper — must realise that the I.R.A . |
| 7 | She had done all the house out and got all the presents and everything , but then they says I could n't have him or see him . |
| 8 | He had done all the thinking he could . |
| 9 | He had done all the sums , and he knew only one answer fitted , but still something snagged . |
| 10 | At home , Mrs Jelbart had done all the Christmas preparations this year — the cake and pudding , the mince pies , the decorations , the turkey and the tree . |
| 11 | Together they had done all the things that she had wanted to do and never been allowed to : gone to Coney Island , licked lollipops on the front there , enjoyed herself in funfairs , and ridden on the Big Wheel . |
| 12 | He reversed out of the parking space , and Fran fixed a determined smile to her face — then gasped in dismay when the man who had done all the talking stepped into their path . |
| 13 | Liverpool 's third came from Phil Boersma near the end , after Kevin Keegan had done all the hard work . |
| 14 | Since the busy fencings and ditchings of the previous thirty years , the men who farmed the best land had flourished all the more ; they could afford the rents for the greater acreage under the plough . |