Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at all " in BNC.
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1 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
2 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
3 | It was as if the news had never come through at all . |
4 | than my job then he said I presume you 've got mixed feelings , I said no my feelings are n't mixed up at all , I 'm quite , I 'm quite sure of my feelings of what I know , I said David I would n't associate myself , I would n't drink and I would n't go out with anybody in this building and he nearly fell over and he said dare I ask why ? |
5 | My hic hyacinths have all come out except no , they 've all come out , one goron l looks like it 's gone and lot congealed little bad and another hyacinth has two have come up and other ones not come up at all . |
6 | Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all . |
7 | He had seen his earliest pupils , as had my father , either not come back at all , or come back broken men . |
8 | Despite the fact that regular maintenance was a statutory requirement and despite some successful legal actions to enforce the statutory provisions , regular dredging and attention to leaks were perfunctory or never carried out at all by canal companies owned by the railways . |
9 | That 's your job and the Franks Report shows that the function was not being carried out at all . |
10 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
11 | I did n't turn it on there , it were n't turned on at all . |
12 | Hardly there 's hardly anything There 's hardly anything written down at all about this . |
13 | I have n't grown up at all , she thought hopelessly . |
14 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
15 | ‘ This has not turned out at all as I envisaged it . |
16 | For her , the evening had not turned out at all as she had hoped . |
17 | As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth . |
18 | She did a total of twelve weeks in London , and was sold out at all performances . |
19 | When she threw a look over her shoulder , however , he had n't given up at all , but was prowling towards her with a bemused smile on his face . |
20 | Such a fleeting allegiance was common amongst Surrealism 's female associates : Frida Kahlo never joined up at all , and she spoke for many of the women who where connected with Surrealism when she declared that Breton and his circle ‘ thought I was a Surrealist , but I was n't . |
21 | And erm could you describe the house you were born in at all ? |
22 | You have n't been dragged off at all |
23 | If there is a change of harmonic outlook in a piece , I prefer to feel , rather than to know whether it might arrive as a surprise , whether it should be prepared and how , and whether it ought to be pointed out at all ! |
24 | In the USSR , however , there were reports at the beginning of the war that the Soviets were unhappy that a war had broken out at all and that a friendly state , Iraq , was at war with a regime that had conducted a revolution of which the USSR basically approved — and using Soviet arms into the bargain . |
25 | The group was hardly set back at all by the major extinction at the end of the Cretaceous , and has never been more varied than it is today . |
26 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
27 | had the updating gone on at all before the Daily Telegraph article came out ? which is in nineteen eighty eight |
28 | At which point I turn and see that they have n't gone off at all , that I 'm sitting on the fourth step , the bottom step , right up against the barrier . |
29 | Frau Nordern glanced at a menu , ‘ And the prices have hardly gone up at all . ’ |
30 | Mr Smith said : ‘ It is very suspicious that it is only one party 's leaflets that have not gone out at all in large quantities . ’ |