Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E just looked at all the people for a minute without saying anythink . |
| 2 | We hardly attacked at all . |
| 3 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 4 | Largely established during the colonial era , it hardly changed at all after independence . |
| 5 | Last season he hardly played at all because of his medical studies , but according to Barry Wilson , the club professional at Shandon , his big game has never been sharper . |
| 6 | Alain was played as an idiot who hardly danced at all except to full over his own feet . |
| 7 | Public-sector land owners were often under an obligation to obtain the best price possible , which was unlikely to happen in times of such severely-restrained demand and when an urban-land market hardly existed at all . |
| 8 | Winding up for the Government when the new clause was debated in the House of Commons on 14 April 1948 , Ede faithfully followed the Cabinet 's line , expounding the case for retention on the grounds that public opinion was not conducive to any change , adding as a supporting argument that the unarmed police had to contend with a ‘ class of gangster and armed criminal which hardly existed at all before the war ’ . |
| 9 | Firmly bandaged , it hardly protested at all . |
| 10 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 11 | Emissions from power stations , which account for about 80 per cent of the total , hardly fell at all . |
| 12 | Do you think that in all schools the head always looked at all the reports ? |
| 13 | erm I 'm not someone who 's for , for example , erm positive discrimination where that means choosing a woman when there 's a better man erm and I think that erm although some feminists do , certainly it 's not a necessary condition of being a feminist , and I certainly do n't , and I think that if John Major erm sincerely looked at all the women who could have been in his cabinet , and sincerely judged their abilities erm compared to the men who were available , erm and decided that the women were n't ready , then I think that 's , that 's a possible position . |
| 14 | He sang the songs that related quite indirectly to the next mime that took place and there was a slight story linking the whole thing — very slight harlequinade story — but it hardly mattered at all . |
| 15 | The night before the wedding the girls hardly slept at all and they did not chatter to one another as they usually did until they found sleep . |
| 16 | If Louisa had not dreamed badly on her first night at the Lodge it was because she hardly slept at all . |
| 17 | ‘ She certainly is , ’ he said in a voice that hardly quavered at all . |
| 18 | First , there is the consideration that we are dealing with a phase of human ego-evolution in which language probably barely existed at all and in which a sophisticated awareness of inner conflicts — what today we would call insight — could barely have existed either ( indeed , as we shall see later on , it is doubtful to what extent it exists even today ! ) . |
| 19 | During the first session Susie barely spoke at all . |
| 20 | There were so many cracks in it now that it barely held at all . |
| 21 | If someone ‘ recovers ’ from their arthritic condition but later develops a heart condition then , in reality , they never recovered at all but the focus of their disease shifted from a more superficial to a deeper level . |
| 22 | Erm occupation when you , you were talking about travel when , he 'd told you what he was doing and he was associated with an American company or the parent company was in America erm you mentioned about travel , Steve started talking about car and miles he drives and he also mentioned flying but you never explored at all really the , the flying side . |
| 23 | The most common request is that everything should be set back the way it was at time X and it should appear as though the work carried out on package Y never happened at all ! |
| 24 | It were n't fair that one woman should fall every time her husband used her , while another never fell at all . |
| 25 | She never thought at all about the hacienda until they were almost back there . |
| 26 | Of course it stunned her into silence and she never answered at all , not even when he reached out and collected most of her parcels , carrying them himself . |
| 27 | It seemed to Carolyn ( perhaps her memory exaggerated ) that her father never spoke at all . |
| 28 | She never cried at all . |
| 29 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 30 | I never minded at all . |