Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] at all " in BNC.
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1 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
2 | I it is not envisaged I mean I must n't mislead you at all I want I want to be understood on this issue . |
3 | He must n't strain himself at all . |
4 | " You should n't do it at all . " |
5 | ‘ You sound as though disasters on the other side of the world should n't concern us at all , ’ said Scarlet . |
6 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |
7 | In this case they may not add anything at all to the message . |
8 | I ca n't tell you that this keyboard is the best you 'll ever buy , because its feel may not suit you at all , but if you take that and the monitor aside , and specify totally different units that do suit you , then the system box wo n't let you down . |
9 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
10 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
11 | She could not feel anything at all — the anaesthetic having done its job — and she could not see anything as her eyes were tightly closed . |
12 | Often they could not find them at all . |
13 | My parents had died when I was a baby , so I could not remember them at all , but quite often I used to visit the churchyard , about a mile from the village , to look at their names on their gravestones . |
14 | But she could not remember anything at all about them . |
15 | My leg had gone completely to sleep and I could n't feel it at all , but I managed to hobble to the door , collecting fourpence out of my wallet , and down the stairs to the first landing where the telephone was . |
16 | Derby winner Dr Devious also raced freely before weakening into 10th and jockey Chris McCarron , who replaced regular rider John Reid , reported afterwards : ‘ I could n't control him at all . ’ |
17 | She said she 's absolutely brilliant she said you could n't fault her at all . |
18 | I could n't stand chemistry anyway , could n't understand it at all , the atoms and the neutrons and all that . |
19 | She looked sad and Jenna could n't understand it at all . |
20 | so , you know , I looked under the bonnet , I could n't understand it at all tt , er , so I eventually got a lift and got a ride down into Malham and er , went in the telephone box there |
21 | It bothered him to let her go like this , but she 'd insisted ; for a while he could n't see her at all , until she reached the skyline and stopped for a moment . |
22 | I wriggled until I could peer over the edge into the wet depths below and I could n't see him at all . |
23 | Edge on , you could n't see it at all . |
24 | There is a rather improbable story that , when Captain cook first sailed into Botany Bay , Australia , the size of his ship was so far beyond anything that the local aborigines had ever seen that they could n't see it at all . |
25 | She could n't see anything at all now , and there was an odd buzzing sound in her ears . |
26 | No , she could n't help them at all . |
27 | She could n't remember it at all . |
28 | Oh , no I put a six where a five should be , in my pin number , that 's all I did , but I just , I just stood there and my mind just completely went blank , I could n't remember it at all . |
29 | I could n't hear anything at all |
30 | ‘ Perhaps we need n't bother him at all . |