Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] at [det] " in BNC.

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1 We only had it at half past twelve .
2 Our hostess scarcely showed herself at all .
3 ‘ And he just left it at that ? ’
4 There was a Puritan austerity about him that made one doubt whether he ever enjoyed anything at all .
5 The road was crossed by a locked-down barrier about two kilometres further on , but Belov had a key and the barrier hardly slowed them at all .
6 He said you were very kind to him , you and Miguel — hardly hurt him at all . ’
7 You think you know people and then you wonder if you ever knew them at all . ’
8 ‘ I hardly knew her at all , ’ said Guy , unconcernedly , ‘ only she happened to mention it once . ’
9 They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all .
10 The Germans hardly shelled us at all .
11 Maggie was numb with misery herself and Felipe hardly said anything at all .
12 The Scouts had rushed skiddingly from one pod to the next , annihilating languid swanky drugsters , warbling liquorites , squirming orgiasts who were responding to the war in their own indulgent style , if they even heeded it at all .
13 If all else failed they at any rate ought to produce children .
14 She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair .
15 I never made more friends as easily as when I was among people whose language I spoke badly and who barely spoke mine at all .
16 Then his lips found hers again and it was some time before either said anything at all .
17 Nobody else said anything at all .
18 As it turned out , Mr. Wickstead , although very fond of Richard , never taught him at all !
19 But we never touched them at that time .
20 I never loved him at all , Angel .
21 I do n't know a great deal about the sorcerers of the Future , ’ said Calatin , who actually knew nothing at all about them , but thought it would sound unprofessional to admit this , ‘ but I do n't think we should rely on them .
22 he never saw them at all , no .
23 Fred cheated his clients , of course ; but he never did it at this stage of a transaction .
24 Sue had smiled , glossy pink lips , smooth make-up , brown eyes like treacle , and said nothing and , as far as Marion knew , her feet never bothered her at all .
25 As a consequence of which well we went to Egypt and the Sudan this business , we came back and er the b the the foreman 's brother he ne he never liked me ever this forema when I were a kid you know , he never liked me at all , I never got on with him and and er mind you there 's a long story about that but it 's a silly little thing that er that I really upset him with .
26 She never left me at all !
27 It is still wonderful — both how far he moved from it and how he never abandoned it at all .
28 It thus appears most unlikely that Fahreddin Acemi could have held the kadilik of Edirne for a significant period and much more likely that he never held it at all ; and in this respect , in his not holding a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , Fahreddin Acemi seems not only to differ from his predecessors but also to resemble all his successors in the office of Mufti .
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