Example sentences of "it at all " in BNC.
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1 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
2 | Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all . |
3 | ‘ 1912 and nothing wrong with it at all . ’ |
4 | And as Mary Douglas ( 1973 : 15 ) had pointed out , ‘ if we can not bring the argument back from tribal ethnography to ourselves , then there is little point in starting it at all ’ . |
5 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
6 | I am all too ready to admit that I may have misunderstood what I have read in modern French theory ; the problem is in getting any minimal intellectual purchase on it at all . |
7 | ‘ There will be many people who wo n't like it , wo n't like it at all , and will walk out . |
8 | I am interested in an aspect of it which exists , it at all , in terms of that contradiction — of a parodic critique of the essence of sensibility as conventionally understood . |
9 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
10 | I do n't understand it at all . ’ |
11 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
12 | But it is a part which gives me so much pain that sometimes I ca n't bear it — ca n't bear it at all . ’ |
13 | We may do it badly , but the beauty is that we do it at all . |
14 | ‘ Either you support the programme or you amend it , which means you do not support it at all , ’ he said . |
15 | His wife gave him a long level look with no liking in it at all , and Penelope Huntley watched , fascinated . |
16 | I do n't like the sound of it at all . |
17 | It was a clear , carrying command with no anxiety in it at all , and McLeish identified himself promptly . |
18 | I knew my wife did n't want to see it at all . |
19 | But the united nation they had in mind , when they thought hard about it at all , was probably not what they have been landed with . |
20 | Perhaps the most audacious thing about this exhibition is that the British Museum should have countenanced it at all . |
21 | She could n't remember it at all . |
22 | For Chambers , his witness of doubtful character , he found this Nixonian endorsement : ‘ Is it not better to tell the whole truth in the end than to refuse , as Hiss did , to tell it at all ? ’ |
23 | Gloxinias do n't seem to like it at all , but that 's been my only failure . |
24 | Or would you eat the chocolate very quickly without thinking or even looking much at it at all ? |
25 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
26 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
27 | I would not stage it at all ! |
28 | My response to these people is , if you can , t do the thing properly , then , please , do not do it at all . |
29 | To get away with it at all , the wines must be bone dry , so that there 's no food ( ie sugar ) for any possible remaining bugs . |
30 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |