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Example sentences for "had all"

  • He being staying, he having staying was being staying and staying he had all he had when he had what he having staying was not having in measuring what he was preparing and he staying, having being staying.

  • He did not begin the remains and he had all that to pierce when he came to the condition.

  • He had all when he had enough and knew them all and said it as if he saw where he heard.

  • I had all I could do to quiet her at first.

  • Why, I had all I could do to keep from laughin' in his face.

  • As Abner Filbury had said, the steed was a mettlesome one, and soon Sam found he had all he could do to hold the horse in.

  • It would be more easy to persuade them if we had all of us your voice and your enthusiasm.

  • He could not quite tell how it had all occurred, but there at least was the horrible certainty, staring him right in the face.

  • So great was its force that Roger had all he could do to push the door open.

  • Trembling with humiliation and anger, he had all he could do to keep the tears from his eyes.

  • Though the position was horribly uncomfortable, he had all he could do to prevent himself from going to sleep, even despite the occasional screeches of the whistle.

  • It had all been a beacon of hope to her in the uphill road toward the temple of learning; and how hard she had studied, and how patiently she had tried to correct her own speech, not even her teacher guessed.

  • It had all come in a brief torrent of pitiful confession which few would be brave enough to make.

  • It had all been a rosy-hued dream with her, while she waited his coming.

  • We had all breeds of Dago and Chinaman, and some of your own South African blacks, and they got so busy on the job they forgot about bedtime.

  • By this time we had all cheered up, for it is wonderful what a tonic there is in a prospect of action.

  • It had drifted somehow into our dug-out on the Scarpe, and after we had all stuck in the second chapter it had disappeared in the mud to which it naturally belonged.

  • We had all bungled, the whole wretched bunch of us, Peter and Blenkiron and myself .

  • We had all foreseen a change in the weather, and probably a thunder-squall.

  • We had all la Pauline's boats but the captain's gig.

  • When we had all become a little calm, and a substantial meal was placed before us adventurers, Mr. Hardinge demanded an account of all that had passed.

  • They ain't had all kinds of pills and stuff then, like they has now, but I believe we ain't been sick as much then as we do now.

  • We had all de big fields en de pretty woods to wander round en bout en make us playhouse in.

  • We had all de hollidays off and a big time Christmas and July Fourth.

  • Our guns had ranged up and down the whole front and we had all begun to get confident and to think that it was only a matter of a few days until we would be on the high road to Brussels.

  • How jealous we had all been of the lives of the men.

  • What care we had all bestowed on their drill, their discipline, their health and equipment.

  • We had all kinds of guns ready for the fray.

  • And this will make us the best amends in your power for the loss of your good neighbourhood, which we had all promised to ourselves.

  • Sir Thomas had done what he could, but it had all amounted to nothing.

  • It had all gone in procuring him a seat in Parliament.

  • And yet he had all things to recommend him.

  • But he had all a tailor's respect for a customer with a dead relation.

  • I could not guess whether he had seen me or not, it had all occurred so quickly.

  • It had all been a plant to get me to lift him up; and as soon as he'd made me do it he laughed at me!

  • We had all stuck to Browne through the term, and it was a little too much now to find a fellow like Potter, who professed to be Browne's friend too, stepping in this cold-blooded way into his place.

  • She didn't make any especial comment then, but as soon as she could get me alone I saw that it had all been of no use--my patience and my waiting; she was determined to talk.

  • But before they could have counted one, the creatures, soundlessly, had all disappeared.

  • He had all de implee-ments but he wouldn' let nobody see him digging in de night.

  • Us had all kinds of good things t'eat, and atter us drunk a lot of liquor it warn't long 'fore dere was a Nigger fight goin' on.

  • Their acts, in all cases except those specially reserved, were to have the force of law without the royal signature.

  • This rare collection was left at his death to a monastery in his native city.

  • The kings of Aragon endowed it with funds, and with a library valuable for that day, presiding over its meetings in person, and distributing the poetical premiums with their own hands.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had all" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another way; common with; had acquired; had all; had always; had arrived; had become; had bought; had caught; had ceased; had come; had committed; had ever been before; had expected; had gained; had known; had married; had never heard before; had picked; had returned; had risen; had the good fortune; had turned; here present; justifying righteousness; pretty thick