Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 5 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 6 | Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ They just put a tick on it if you 've done it at all . |
| 9 | I have n't moved it at all . |
| 10 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 11 | So the museum is stuck firmly in the public sector — except that , as Miss Rankine drily observes , the politicians have robbed it of all Whitehall 's perks , including free auditing and legal advice . |
| 12 | But the fact that Sarah had said it at all seemed to mean she thought they were very close friends . |
| 13 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 14 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 15 | I 've not seen it mummy , I 've not seen it at all . |
| 16 | This new order accords with the logic of Marx 's thinking , as we have seen it in all the works we have discussed so far . |
| 17 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 18 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 19 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
| 20 | I assume , Chairman , director is the right word , because we 've used it amongst all the other , we 've got the director of library services , we 've got the director of property services and what have you . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've had it with all of you . ’ |
| 22 | I 've had it for all this time , I hope . |
| 23 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 24 | Have you had it on all day ? |
| 25 | I 've had it on all the time have n't I mam ? |
| 26 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 27 | He had avoided it with all the fuss going on but wanted to see the Bookman once more before the expedition started . |
| 28 | The Romanians had played it for all it was worth . |
| 29 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 30 | Leith , having popped along to her bedroom to take her hair out of the knot she had worn it in all day , was having serious thoughts about her actions — inviting him for a meal , for goodness ' sake ! |