Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] at [det] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you tell me a bit more about that , because I do n't know anything at all about utility furniture |
| 2 | But this aroused influential opposition notably from the Emperor , Ferdinand I , and the Bavarian Duke , Albrecht V. The Pope 's motu proprio of 2 August 1564 , which nominated eight cardinals to see to the carrying out of the Tridentine reforms generally , says nothing at all about music . |
| 3 | Lord Tedder , vice-chairman in the early fifties , admitted that ‘ I know nothing at all about broadcasting , but I can learn . |
| 4 | I know nothing at all about television " . |
| 5 | No I think they know nothing at all about business . |
| 6 | The subject continues to invest itself in cultural forms , identifying , for example , with sports , cinema , clothing , a political line , or certain relationships ; but such is the scale of modern society that the same individual may become absurdly overextended into essentially superficial relationships , none of which augments his or her being , and yet simultaneously , may have nothing at all in common with another overextended individual who has selected entirely different areas of the surrounding culture . |
| 7 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 8 | She is able to eat and drink normally on the day she is admitted but on the following day is allowed nothing at all by mouth for 4 hours prior to surgery . |
| 9 | It should be stressed that the figures do not reflect the fact that a considerable number of respondents answered ‘ yes ’ to the principle of capping but went on to argue that institutions should receive nothing at all by way of grants ( see , for example , the response from the Legal Resources Group ) . |
| 10 | A man like Luke had no need to force his attentions on unwilling women — and he had nothing at all in common with her ex-fiancé . |
| 11 | She soothed herself with the thought that the small deception she was about to practise was not the only reason for her attack of nerves : her own college in London , housed in a nondescript modern block , had nothing at all in common with the medieval gateway in front of her . |
| 12 | If you thought ram-raids had nothing at all in common with bungee jumping , you were wrong . |
| 13 | The exhibits in the Brussels exhibition seem to have had in common only a concentration on clearly defined simple forms and a corresponding limitation of colour , and very few of them had anything at all in common with the work of Picasso and Braque . |
| 14 | So it 's too dark to see anything at all in fact . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't mind , ’ she said , watching him squirm , feeling nothing at all except self-disgust at allowing herself to get into this situation . |
| 16 | ‘ Bev did n't say anything at all in relation to what I said , and in fact showed no emotion , ’ she said in a statement . |