Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’ |
| 3 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 4 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |
| 5 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 6 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The haciendas , the castles and the oast-houses would not have suited her at all . |
| 9 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 10 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 11 | My grandmother may not have delivered you at all . ’ |
| 12 | Several boys had asked her to dance but she had refused them all , afraid she might miss her chance with Pete , but he seemed not to have noticed her at all in spite of Louise 's dress . |
| 13 | Mike , though he not have thought it at the time , was extremely lucky , as the aircraft hit the ground the fuselage broke open , his helmet came off , became lodged in the opening and was then crushed as the fuselage closed again . |
| 14 | As has been mentioned ( Chapter 3 , 3.3.1 ) , because management knows the business ( some of them will usually have operated it at board level ) , the vendors may expect to provide Newco with less warranty and indemnity protection than on an " arm's-length " sale . |
| 15 | And he , he possibly had done it at least a half a dozen times |
| 16 | But he 'd have called the police anyway and they might really have caught us at it . |
| 17 | But she did not like to admit the accidental , for if her birth was the effect of chance , so then was her escape ; the same arbitrary law that had produced her might well have blinded her at the most crucial moments of her life , and left her forever desiring , forever missing , never achieving , an eternal misfit . |
| 18 | ‘ That is , if it was a row , not a sparring match that would n't have worried her at all . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You wo n't have appreciated it at night , but the view over the gardens is breathtaking . |
| 20 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 21 | That would n't have surprised him at all . |
| 22 | They should n't have left me at school . |
| 23 | ‘ Your daddy should n't have left you at a bus stop in an area where a girl would hear language like that , ’ Rory told her , sternly . |
| 24 | She would never have left you at risk . |