Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] at [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The message is that drivers who do n't break their journey , are in serious danger of not completing it at all . |
2 | He might have been spooning it into his pocket , not eating it at all . |
3 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
4 | Father Abbot , here is a strange saying , for she came to me when I was not seeking her at all , when I knew nothing of her . |
5 | Er , very wary of those , really , and we 're not recommending them at all . |
6 | not hunting them at all ? |
7 | I do n't like me voice , I 'm not liking it at all and I think that 's what putting me off on taping it and listening to myself after , I do n't , I like , I like |
8 | This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine . |
9 | Or not getting it at all . ’ |
10 | We are not getting it at all . |
11 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
12 | Peer pressure is a factor , but not necessarily in a coercive way ; a teenager who is n't sure how to smoke a joint will be more worried about losing face from doing it wrong than not doing it at all . |
13 | Obviously there is a very delicate balance between erm demanding too much of people 's time in consulting and talking with you , and not involving them at all , and you have to be very sensitive to how much time people are prepared to give and how much they want to be involved in something . |
14 | Not chasing them at all ! |
15 | ‘ I 'm not manipulating you at all . |
16 | During its debut series , the BBC insisted on moving it about willy-nilly ( to the extent of not showing it at all some weeks ) like a high court judge discovering his penis and not knowing quite what to do with it . |
17 | I was trying to conduct an interview , and now I 'm trying to explain to you that you 're not making it at all easy . |
18 | But I knew what was really worrying her at that moment . |
19 | It 's this terrible pseudo-rational nagging by just carrying on normally , as if she were n't nagging me at all . |
20 | I suppose they 're very good and all in white and very ‘ county ’ like those awful people you got to ask me over and it turned out they were n't expecting me at all and there were four of them anyway . |
21 | Luke had n't mentioned company , she thought , but then he was n't expecting her at this ungodly hour — it was nearly eight already . |
22 | She was n't disturbing him at all , said Dyson , swinging round in his chair and resting his elbow comfortably on the stacks of unsubbed copy and uncorrected proofs . |
23 | No , he would n't , was n't having it at all |
24 | I 'm not having it er she did n't do the , when she said to me I want to speak to you about it , she said , you know , she was n't involving me at all was she ? |
25 | And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like . |
26 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
27 | As she glared at him , almost hating him at that moment , he suddenly grinned , and her anger evaporated . |
28 | Cos th without actually forcing it at all . |
29 | He just left the remark hanging in the air and she stared after him , the eyes never leaving him at all . |