Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] at all " in BNC.
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1 | If you 're lucky enough to see one at all it will slither off to find a more peaceful rock to sleep under , and since as yet they have n't organised themselves into packs , roaming around looking for people to bite , we can safely say that there 's nothing you will encounter that threatens humans in any way . |
2 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
3 | Clearly , if I 'm to give my loved one a spade for Christmas , the answer is not to wrap it at all . |
4 | Some people prefer not to use them at all and remove them . |
5 | During the final edit the TV company 's commissioning editor for arts , Waldemar Januszczak decided not to use them at all . |
6 | I think it 's unscientific , prejudicial and subjective to use it in a term that carries any kind of recommendation or erm disapprobation and er I think , I think one has to exercise caution in erm in the way you use tha tha that , that term , perhaps it 's better not to , not to use it at all . |
7 | It is best not to build it at all but to imagine how it would work . |
8 | Positivist criminology , on the other hand , seemed scarcely to recognise it at all . |
9 | There is no point in having a system which keeps on playing up ; much better not to have one at all . |
10 | THE CASE of the diabetic who took insulin for 52 years , only to turn out not to need it at all , is bemusing doctors . |
11 | And that was very scary , because it was so much safer not to want anything at all , where Julius was concerned . |
12 | Presumably you have to feel that strongly to do anything at all . |
13 | You 've no room here to keep anything at all . ’ |
14 | He will be doing well to get anything at all . |
15 | Ah so you do n't know how to do it at all then , right . |
16 | And we did n't go there to cut them at all because they were right open , right in the open and there was ho hope for them anyway . |
17 | No I do n't like coffee , I do n't know how to make it at all . |
18 | To every invitation or suggestion Ivy returned the heartbreaking phrase ‘ I should enjoy that later ’ , and evidently never expected again to enjoy anything at all . |
19 | He CALLED twice at the station — only to be sent away with a flea in his ear — and LEFT his name and company address so detectives knew where to find him at all times . |
20 | Yet to say anything at all would only serve to convince him that he was right and she wrong . |