Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] at all " in BNC.

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1 But he never made to go after you at all .
2 If she has to deal with him at all , even quite briefly , people start saying ‘ She 's always talking to that man , — who knows why she has so much to say . ’
3 ‘ It beats me why you want to fly with us at all , Gabriel , ’ Rogers said .
4 She tried to think of nothing at all , but found her mind drifting back to that one subject all the time .
5 She will make it clear right from the start by her tone of voice that it is with tired reluctance that she has decided to deal with you at all .
6 She could see his disdain , and it was n't so much for her — she hardly seemed to count for anything at all in his eyes .
7 In fact , given the bitterness the memory of Cherith still evoked , she wondered why he 'd decided to confide in her at all .
8 I did n't plan to deviate from it at all for the rest of my speech anyway .
9 If she was going to quarrel about it at all she would have to do it seriously .
10 I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all .
11 send the photograph and that gives me an idea whether it 's worth going to look at it at all .
12 In fact he had not bothered to look at me at all .
13 I 'm not going to argue with you at all … sit there until you 've calmed down . ’
14 Their aim is not so much to alleviate the horrors of war as to make war so horrific that potential aggressors will fear to resort to it at all .
15 So you have to ask yourself if a company consistently advertises products for less than they 're actually selling for — do you want to deal with them at all ?
16 On the other hand , I did n't have to think about it at all to decide it was flamboyant , asinine pretentiousness .
17 Maggie spat , alarmed that the others might hear and wishing she did not have to speak to him at all .
18 There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name .
19 But I would n't have thought everybody would , would want to wade through it at all times .
20 I just can nae seem to get off it at all .
21 That they have managed to cope with it at all is perhaps some credit to at least a reasonable level of fairness within the system .
22 Clegg consulted four psychologists on the feasibility of selection for technical education at eleven ( G. B. Jeffrey , Charlotte Fleming , Godfrey Thomson and Cyril Burt ) , and their advice was so clearly in support of his belief that it was not possible that he refused to select for it at all .
23 In fact , I do n't see why you have to refer to him at all .
24 In fact I refuse to think about it at all . ’
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