Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted her to go , and she felt afraid as she realised that she did not want to go at all . |
| 2 | Additionally , in the case of a complete failure to perform to contract at all , the buyer will usually have the right to go elsewhere to a third party for the same goods and to charge the seller for any increase in the price paid to the third party over that payable to the seller . |
| 3 | One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all . |
| 4 | Mine do n't want to come at all , my dad said good god that sounds like a waste of time . |
| 5 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |
| 6 | In contrast to these animals , many invertebrates do not need to accommodate at all . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , anybody working in a pub , a cafe , a restaurant , a tea shop , a cinema , or serving food or drink of any type has to work at all those times . |
| 8 | Underlying this simplistic approach is sound reasoning , namely that your audience needs to know at all times where they are during your presentation . |
| 9 | Do you need to wee at all , Tim ? |
| 10 | It will have been noted that , not content with imposing upon themselves the task of ruling through the tendering of advice , which might have been thought difficult enough , the British took upon themselves in Northern Nigeria the even more difficult task of ruling without actually appearing to rule at all — an undertaking whose very absurdity only emphasizes its interest . |
| 11 | If it is diatonic we may never need to modulate at all . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think the thing we want to avoid at all costs — I mean , I really feel quite strongly about this — is setting up some kind of Utopia — some kind of over-simplified Arcadia which would n't stretch the imagination of the … ’ |
| 13 | The coding frame for each question should have been constructed at the pilot stage except for open questions where we may need to look at all responses to decide on groupings . |
| 14 | The purpose of our work has been to try to look at all aspects of sign language which might help those who make choices . |
| 15 | What what do you know sort of what you want to do at all or |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know ’ , the Dowager Countess leaned close to Lucille , ‘ why some of them bother to dress at all ! |
| 17 | It is always possible that when you do the job specification of a long-standing job you will decide the job does not really need to exist at all ! |
| 18 | Well I 'll be gone after this week and then I wo n't need to ring at all so |
| 19 | The argument outlined in Chapter 3 is that the long term interests of society are best served by a set of regulatory arrangements designed to deter at all levels the misuse of inside information . |
| 20 | To disclose whether or not a warrant has been issued in a particular case could establish means whereby those involved in serious crimes or espionage or subversion could learn the extent to which their activities had come to notice or — perhaps more damaging — could in some cases confirm whether their activities had come to notice at all . |
| 21 | Do you in fact want to recruit at all ? |
| 22 | But none of that seemed to matter at all . |
| 23 | I crossed it out because I thought it was gon na say cos I thought it said , survey managers are instructed to work at all times |
| 24 | Responses range from bribing ( as your competitors do ) to refusing to bribe at all , but making adjustments ( for instance to price ) that will compensate for the bribe being offered and allow competition for a contract to be real . |
| 25 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 26 | He entered in the midst of a raging dispute about whether the endowment deserved to exist at all . |
| 27 | Simone was one of those girls who hardly seemed to change at all from one year to the next . |
| 28 | It is not obvious , in reviewing this system , exactly where the element of indirection came in , except in so far as the Residents were instructed to maintain at all costs the ‘ prestige ’ of the emir . |
| 29 | A bout of sickness and diarrhoea exacerbated the problem intensely to the point of Darren refusing to eat at all and becoming extremely weak and debilitated . |
| 30 | From then on it was the ‘ Dark Ages ’ when nothing seemed to happen at all . |