Example sentences of "[verb] it at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you act a part properly you do n't act it at all ; you are it , and you make it — you . |
| 2 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 3 | I do n't know it at all . |
| 4 | Hello do n't know it at all . |
| 5 | I mean , does it really bore them ( so that they do n't need it at all in their lives ) or does it secretly shock and dismay them , so that they have to pretend to be bored ? |
| 6 | Sometimes I did n't even need it at all I could walk about shopping and everything . |
| 7 | Not that I shall probably need it at all . |
| 8 | Good God , yes I know it 's been very , very heavy here too , there were certain areas over here certainly needed a bit of rain , but now there 's certainly did n't need it at all |
| 9 | If she felt the presence of a man she had never known here in this house , just how much did Marguerite feel his presence and just how much did she need it at this time ? |
| 10 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 11 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 12 | Otherwise , it seems , we do n't buy it at all . |
| 13 | mean they had to stop eventually , but they would n't buy it at all , no way |
| 14 | But because of the recession , my husband and I could n't afford to pay our mortgage , so I had to go back to work and I do n't enjoy it at all . |
| 15 | We did not discuss it at all . |
| 16 | Say it at same price again , yeah . |
| 17 | Second , the welfare state works as a kind of ‘ savings bank ’ , taking money at some points in each person 's life and returning it at another . |
| 18 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 19 | Some people discover this element of themselves while still very young ; others come to it at a much later stage in their lives — and others never manage to find it at all . |
| 20 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 21 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 22 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 23 | You should only consider it at all if you believe your marriage can continue . |
| 24 | At least , if the resources in question were printed ones we would not consider it at all acceptable for teachers to be compiling course bibliographies solely from their own publications . |
| 25 | The second argument about the origins of the incest taboo is the one that relates to the major theme of this chapter and I shall consider it at some length . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's now coming up for its 12,000 mile service , and does n't feel as though it needs it at all . |
| 27 | His sideways glance told her he 'd noticed the manoeuvre but he merely smiled as if , knowing he could curtail it at any time , he was allowing her that small freedom . |
| 28 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 29 | Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all . |
| 30 | I do n't like housework particularly — it 's just a bore , it 's so monotonous , and with a child you 've done it once and five minutes later it just does n't look as though you 've done it at all . |