Example sentences of "they [verb] not [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | They take jobs that allow them the maximum time at the waters edge , or they do not work at all . |
| 8 | 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 ! |