Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ?
2 Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep .
3 Most had nothing at all to say about it and those that did comment relied to a large extent on a discourse and terminology borrowed from the ‘ agenda setting nexus ’ of mainstream criticism .
4 By far the most intriguing announcement in Wales also carried a competitive element , even if it had nothing at all to do with slow bowlers .
5 This smug man who had nothing at all to do with her life had helped to wipe out her father 's existence for her .
6 That someone who had nothing at all to do with her life should have had a hand in removing her father 's last trace in her life infuriated her .
7 In other words , by the 1770s and after Berton 's reforms , debate had nothing at all to do with audible stick signals , but everything to do with the presence of a conducteur , communicating visually .
8 I mean I had nothing at all to do with t' business except I went in partnership with me wife and that .
9 Everything about him spelt self-assurance , the confidence of someone who had nothing at all to prove to the world .
10 And all I could think about was George , about how I had nothing at all left for George now .
11 And when the families were no more , they had nothing at all to show for their efforts .
12 He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers .
13 Neither Marxism Today , Socialist Review nor Tribune had anything at all to say about the programme .
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