Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere . |
2 | ‘ I would n't have known about it at all , except that Mum sent me a little note to tell me he 'd passed away — in his sleep , she said . |
3 | Indeed Joanne was unlucky not to claim the first set , having served for it at 5–3 . |
4 | ‘ You must have thought you merited punishment , for the idea to have occurred to you at all . ’ |
5 | Those of us privileged to have spoken to him at some length and to have seen his fascinating family albums would have known of his boyhood tea with Hitler , his Military Medal midstream in some Eastern battlefield and a host of other incidents . |
6 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
7 | They have erm what 's called the players ' theatre , I do n't know whether you 've heard of it at all erm they belong , they 're members of it . |
8 | I do n't know whether you 've come across her at all . |
9 | The girl was glued to the spot , terror-struck , pop-eyed , quivering , knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last . |
10 | He had thought , insofar as he had thought about it at all , that all prisons must be akin ; that there must be stone cells , barred windows , grilles , gaolers , other prisoners close by . |
11 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
12 | ‘ If you 've thought of me at all since we last met I 'd be very surprised . ’ |
13 | The justification of the invaders , based partly on the doubtful assumption that proximity gave sovereign rights , but more specifically on the claim that the islands had belonged to them at some time in the past , bears comparison with the Zionist claim to Palestine . |
14 | I was n't even sure how far things had gone between you at that stage . |
15 | Edward had remarked to him at one stage . |
16 | It was patently clear to all that Samuel Pipkin could have poisoned the water after he had drunk from it , if indeed he had drunk from it at all . |
17 | Everything he had loved about me at first became embarrassing . |
18 | Several correspondents have written to me at different times expressing the wish that we join forces in order to become more effective . |
19 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |
20 | I have dwelt on it at some length because I believe the opposite to be the case . |