Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all . |
| 2 | But none of that seemed to matter at all . |
| 3 | Things were n't turning out as she 'd expected at all ; now she was dazed , confused , hardly knew where she was or what she was saying . |
| 4 | He entered in the midst of a raging dispute about whether the endowment deserved to exist at all . |
| 5 | Simone was one of those girls who hardly seemed to change at all from one year to the next . |
| 6 | From then on it was the ‘ Dark Ages ’ when nothing seemed to happen at all . |
| 7 | This was n't what he 'd planned at all , a detour . |
| 8 | ‘ The Red Terror ’ , as Phar Lap was to become known , was a freak of breeding : his sire Night Raid failed to win at all in England before being sent to Australia and his dam Entreaty was unplaced on her only start . |
| 9 | He therefore failed to exercise at all the statutory discretion . |
| 10 | Discussion in the community needs to be initiated and encouraged to look at all these issues that affect women . |
| 11 | IF , AS predicted , a right-wing coalition looks set to sweep the Socialists from power after the first round of France 's parliamentary elections on Sunday , the most interesting statistic will probably be the number of people who failed to vote at all . |
| 12 | The group was given the go-ahead and began looking at all options . |
| 13 | ‘ I was too — shocked to react at all initially , ’ she murmured . |
| 14 | Indeed , the last straw as far as Coleman was concerned was when Hurley took a group of his Lebanese CIs , whose identities he needed to protect at all costs , to lunch down the street at a café full of officials from the Bulgarian Embassy . |
| 15 | But most cancers failed to respond at all to the largest doses which were tolerated by healthy tissues . |
| 16 | ‘ … we find it unfortunate that Upjohn failed to respond at all readily to requests made by the Licensing Authority as early as 1990 , that they should carry out a new post-marketing surveillance study ’ . |
| 17 | He kept whistling at all the girls , going shut up ! |
| 18 | It was a shaky whisper against his shoulder , and then she ceased to think at all , simply shut her eyes and let the hot , sweet river of desire flow unchecked through her veins and her limbs and her bloodstream . |
| 19 | If you have a weak stomach you may wonder why you bothered to come at all . |
| 20 | There was always a supply of the two things Simon liked to consume at all hours , fresh fruit and very good brandy . |
| 21 | The other Scouts might easily fail to recognize Lexandro and Brothers ; they might fire first and ask questions later , if they bothered to ask at all . |
| 22 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 23 | Mm , mm , cos of King 's Cross , had to come at all it 's awful and one time you just went straight on the escalator and now you 've got to go |
| 24 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 25 | Little knots of people stood about eyeing each other with an air of wondering why they had come at all . |
| 26 | But a different system had prevailed at Wyvis Hall , or rather no system had prevailed at all . |
| 27 | I started to dig in one corner of it , and I dug for six months , winter months , erm and erm managed a shallow pool which erm was n't what I had envisaged at all , but erm two snipe lived there and liked it . |
| 28 | It is equally probable that the separation of the South Slav languages into Serb , Croat , Slovene , Macedonian and Bulgarian was then in an early stage of development , if it had occurred at all . |
| 29 | That she had slept at all was an encouraging sign that the contamination was fading . |
| 30 | But the texture of her sleep was light and shimmering and when she opened her eyes again much later , it did not seem as though she had slept at all . |