Example sentences of "here at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why am I here at all ? |
| 2 | It 's through the intrepidity of our ancestors that any of us are here at all , but this was an extreme case of decadence . |
| 3 | Why was it here at all ? |
| 4 | ‘ The strange thing is , the stones do n't come from here at all , ’ Emily was saying . |
| 5 | Why had he come here at all ? |
| 6 | Thirty , forty years ago , that would not have been allowed to happen , and fifty years ago , the women would not have been allowed here at all . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't belong here at all . ’ |
| 8 | It is hard for many biologists e en to see that there is a question here at all . |
| 9 | You should be able to forgive yourself once you realise that you are not expected to be perfect ; indeed , if you were , you would not need to be here at all — your spirit would be continuing its learning process somewhere else . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're not here at all . |
| 11 | I insist on one of the grooms being in here at all times . |
| 12 | This is anecdotal evidence to be sure , but given the lack of any measures to enforce the speed limit it was hard to see how any safety gains had been made here at all . |
| 13 | As far as the build quality is concerned , you 'd expect it to be up there with the best of the Japanese instruments , and you 'll be pleased to know that Jackson have not compromised their reputation here at all ; there 's nothing in the slightest ‘ second rate ’ about the Infinity . |
| 14 | There is no bar , no alcohol ; no obvious reason why they 're here at all … |
| 15 | ‘ Were it not that Mr Telscombe had business to discuss with Mr Barnet I doubt we should be here at all . |
| 16 | But one of Charles 's achievements was to ensure that all his children who reached adulthood , male or female , could at least sign their names ; his daughter Elizabeth had produced a most business-like signature at her marriage in 1802 and , here at All Hallows , Benjamin signed with a flourish , above the rather more demure attempt of his new wife . |
| 17 | Meaning that you 'll have no time for us here at all soon . ’ |
| 18 | There would be unwilling students , who did n't want to be here at all , who had other plans and other dreams , but came to satisfy the wishes of parents . |
| 19 | Mr Woodward knew the area well and there were no railways here at all ; there used to be many years ago and there are still signs of the old trackbed to be seen . |
| 20 | I do n't think you should have come here at all . ’ |
| 21 | That it is here at all is an act of faith on the part of the Academy 's management , who were well aware of the political overtones the show carried in the States and has inevitably brought with it to London . |
| 22 | He did n't bring me down here at all . ’ |
| 23 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 24 | ‘ I do not belong with these people ; they are not my people , and I do not belong here at all … . ’ ( f.1 ) |
| 25 | ( really I 'm not here at all ) |
| 26 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
| 27 | We would n't be here at all if we were n't handy in a pinch . |
| 28 | ‘ No grass snakes around here at all ? ’ |
| 29 | I 'm not sure how we got here at all . |
| 30 | Erm are you going to be at home at all tomorrow or here at all tomorrow ? ? |