Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] at [det] " in BNC.
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1 | I think we 'd better leave it at that for the moment . |
2 | I 've got Mrs and I think we 'd better leave it at that . |
3 | Positivist criminology , on the other hand , seemed scarcely to recognise it at all . |
4 | During the final edit the TV company 's commissioning editor for arts , Waldemar Januszczak decided not to use them at all . |
5 | He CALLED twice at the station — only to be sent away with a flea in his ear — and LEFT his name and company address so detectives knew where to find him at all times . |
6 | It was not everyone who would have relished going off into the dark forest ; Lugh did not relish it at all , in fact . |
7 | He was wearing his best suit , which did not fit him at all . |
8 | But I was surprised to find that Bessie did not scold me at all . |
9 | I did not mean it at all , I thought it was vaguely amusing . |
10 | ‘ And , ’ she went on , ‘ I was compelled to end my engagement to Havvie when I discovered that he did not love me at all … merely wanted Papa 's dollars , and , worse , despised us , all of us , for being rich and vulgar Yankees . |
11 | She sent for her confessor because she was in mortal sin ; she had withheld from him in confession a sin of which she was ashamed , but because he spoke sharply to her , she did not confess it at all this time either . |
12 | The symbolism of this did not strike her at all , as she went back and forth , showering and dressing and rehearsing all the reasons why he was to go . |
13 | the Racing Post did not mention him at all in its main preview of the race ; and the official Cheltenham racecard form guide nominated him ‘ more of a candidate for last place than first ’ . |
14 | Because she had never known her parents well , she did not miss them at all . |
15 | The male did not bother her at all after spawning , so I was able to leave her in the Mbuna colony until she was ‘ near term ’ — and all the fry were this time normal — all 120+ of them . |
16 | He added : ‘ I was in a place once when a man fired a gun at me and I did not like it at all . |
17 | Some princes did not employ them at all until the second half of the century . |
18 | We did not discuss it at all . |
19 | For some reason this did not surprise him at all . |
20 | It did not surprise him at all that the Chairman 's answer should come , hand-delivered , to his villa at four o'clock in the morning , and that the rendezvous would be away from Baghdad . |
21 | He did not see her at all as he got out of the car and Jenna had the chance to observe him without the dark eyes pinning her quizzically . |
22 | After that we did not see him at all . |
23 | Suddenly , a fact struck Ken that did not please him at all . |
24 | Such behaviour , which always unnerved her when displayed by such as Higginbotham , did not unnerve her at all . |
25 | It was an art which did not excite me at all , but there was no way out . |
26 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
27 | I confess I did not remember her at all , but I have been in so many hoses , I suppose it is only natural … " |
28 | But she soon saw he did not remember her at all . |
29 | Existentially , they did not touch me at that moment . |
30 | Ah they did n't , they knew I was n't really interested in school , they were , did n't bother them at all . |