Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] [to-vb] at all " in BNC.

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1 He wanted her to go , and she felt afraid as she realised that she did not want to go at all .
2 Nicholas certainly did not want to fight alone , and probably did not want to fight at all .
3 His gift of stolen peonies was discarded in a cardboard box , and she did not seem to mind at all .
4 Certainly those who worked in the Cages he did not wish to like at all , but among the people who came by the Cages were some who came regularly , day after day , and they seemed all right to him .
5 In contrast to these animals , many invertebrates do not need to accommodate at all .
6 Kings boss Chris Kelly added : ‘ I did n't want to play at all and feel that on a neutral ground with our display against Peterborough we could have pulled off a shock win .
7 ‘ There were times when I really did n't want to play at all .
8 And he wass very nice and did n't seem to mind at all about being told . ’
9 They did n't seem to mind at all .
10 If you have recently buried a pet you may even find that you do n't want to move at all .
11 Occasionally you 'll get people who do n't want to take at all .
12 I — I have enough , I — I just do n't want to live at all ! ’
13 Mine do n't want to come at all , my dad said good god that sounds like a waste of time .
14 Do n't want to interfere at all in the business of the administration of the scheme , the investment side of it , but there are clearly , discretionary areas in the superannuation regulations , which effect significantly your pay , employment and reward policies .
15 ‘ Which means we do n't have to work at all , ’ Aidan said cheerfully .
16 You do n't have to work at all . "
17 But that was another thing nowadays they , they just do n't seem to bother at all if the mother gets torn , now in those days it was a terrible disgrace to g to er if you had a , had a delivery and the mother was torn .
18 But nowadays they just do n't seem to bother at all .
19 The real failures are those who give up and do n't attempt to succeed at all after the first setback .
20 The alignment of the station does not have to change at all to take account of the new east route into London in favour of which my right hon. and learned Friend has declared himself .
21 Rather curiously , this line of thought does not seem to occur at all in biological materials which all depend , as do some artificial ones , on reducing the effective stress concentration at the tip of the crack .
22 He does n't have to steer at all ; he does n't look at his compass ; he need not even run his engines : his vessel is quite literally pulled out of one ocean and into the other by a sextet of electrically-powered ( and Japanese-made ) trains called ‘ mules ’ which run on American cast-iron rails beside the lock-gates of the Canal : all the captain has to do is stand on the bridge and watch , listen to the genial Yankee twang of his assigned American pilot and experience a transport of delight .
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