Example sentences of "they [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while , however , they did not talk at all . |
| 2 | They did not fall at all . |
| 3 | When siskins had their breast feathers temporarily covered , the speed of their flight increased and they did not glide at all . |
| 4 | There were amused smiles , but they did not know at all why Alain had done that . |
| 5 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
| 6 | And then they did n't shift at all see . |
| 7 | When you talked to judges in the Sixties , they might have told you they did n't happen at all or would be willing to concede that a miscarriage might take place once every 10 years . ’ |
| 8 | We try to keep aberrations like that to an absolute minimum — we 'd rather they did n't happen at all , obviously , but every so often the gremlins creep in . |
| 9 | Adam did n't want his sister , they did n't get on all that well . |
| 10 | They did n't mind at all that you were n't a boy . ’ |
| 11 | They did n't look at all impressive last week when losing 4-2 to Edinburgh Civil Service in a friendly . |
| 12 | But no , the kind of subtlety , the rubarto was , you know , that is very , the hallmark of Elgar they did n't like at all . |
| 13 | But they took advantage , the boys did and they do n't care at all ! |
| 14 | You know , and if it is just the way it happens , particularly when you get a er , an envelope with says here you are , have free drinks , you know that some people , they do n't drink at all so they can go to somebody else and say here you are . |
| 15 | ‘ Sometimes they do n't answer at all unless nagged into it . ’ |
| 16 | They need all the help they can get in following a language they do n't know at all well . |
| 17 | And they do n't mind at all . |
| 18 | When his wife ( Pat Heywood ) meets him at John o' Groats , they do not speak at all or , if they do , we can not hear them as if they were already far away . |
| 19 | In his Dictionary ( 1697 ) , Bayle points out that although the ‘ new philosophers ’ do not set out to be sceptics , they go even further in extending sceptical arguments to the conclusion that smells , colours , and tastes , ‘ are perceptions of our soul and that they do not exist at all in the objects of our senses ’ . |
| 20 | They take jobs that allow them the maximum time at the waters edge , or they do not work at all . |
| 21 | Therefore : the ‘ unegoistic ’ , self-sacrificing , imprudent , is nothing special — it is common to all the drives — they do not consider the advantage of the whole ego ( because they do not consider at all ! ) , they act contrary to our advantage , against the ego : and often for the ego — innocent in both cases ! |