Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , nobody goes there at all . ’ |
| 2 | There has , however , been very little research which looks directly at this issue and thus at this stage suggestions about the normal levels of memory performance or about the variables which may influence it remain largely speculative . |
| 3 | They are very high quality soft pastels , with a wonderfully creamy texture which varies not at all from colour to colour , unlike other pastel ranges I have bought , where I have sometimes found that the darkest colours have been brittle and irritatingly scratchy to use . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think there 's anybody who 's worked here for a time who has n't at some time felt like crying , or who has n't actually cried or felt really down . |
| 5 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
| 6 | Cilla Black as she looks back at some of the funniest moments in the success of her matchmaking series . |
| 7 | Admittedly , she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return ; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages , imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall . |
| 8 | ‘ He wo n't get far , so if he turns left at these lights we go right , ’ says Mark , but it 's only his sense of humour showing . |
| 9 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 10 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 11 | Every night he goes out at half past ten , I said right . |
| 12 | At these moments he looks closely at each inch of her face , like a valuer frowningly examining some precious object . |
| 13 | No he has n't at all . |
| 14 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 15 | China 's initial response was that the speech could not be considered as a basis for talks " because it has not at all relinquished the concept of the independence of Tibet " , but on Sept. 23 disclosed an offer to hold direct negotiations to which the Dalai Lama responded positively . |
| 16 | It starts off at some value here and it goes down until eventually when it 's done a certain number of miles the car 's worth nothing . |
| 17 | This system , generally known as the Cabinet system , has been , in its broad features , adopted by most European constitutional states , and it matters not at all whether they are called monarchies or republics . |
| 18 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 19 | Er , it strikes me with the , with the comedy , he 's trying to be so funny that he shoots off at all these angles and not having |
| 20 | For all these reasons , there is some mixing , though it occurs more at some times of year ( during the winter storms ) than at others . |
| 21 | On the cold hill , a fence now surrounds the circle , and it interferes not at all with the mood or countenance of the rocks . |
| 22 | The system , with formal judicial intervention , has worked successfully in the US ; it operates informally but without full judicial approval in England and Wales ; but at the present time it obtains not at all in Scotland . |
| 23 | It aims chiefly at more , here and now , for the organised workers of the craft or industry [ and ] accepts as inevitable , if not as just , the existing capitalistic organisation and the wage system … |
| 24 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 25 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 26 | It 's because it locks better at that groove . |
| 27 | ‘ Only he does n't at all believe in God . ’ |
| 28 | And he , he does n't at all now . |
| 29 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 30 | But it does not at all follow from the fact that causal circumstances in a sense guarantee their effects that we can predict those effects better than we do . |