Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admiration has nothing at all to do with — falling in love , that sort of thing . |
| 2 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 3 | Letting the water buoy up my weight I stretched my feet down to touch bottom and found the water came up to my ears ; took a deep breath , put the rest of my head under and reached around for Harry , unable to see him , unable with open eyes to see anything at all . |
| 4 | The neo-pagans say this is nonsense , their religion has nothing at all to do with the devil , because the devil is an invention of the Christians . |
| 5 | Be warned though , it does n't work on all PC speakers — there are one or two in the office that emit a sound of some sort , but so quietly that you need a hearing aid to catch anything at all . |
| 6 | It was a good system for everyone except the artist , who was frequently offered a low rate for the job , then had his payment deferred , and sometimes had to battle for months to receive anything at all . |
| 7 | Ron does n't remember this tall , slightly gawky figure approaching him at all . |
| 8 | There 's no reasson to keep it at all . |
| 9 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
| 10 | No , Maggie protected herself at all times . |
| 11 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 12 | Maggie said nothing at all . |
| 13 | If you thought ram-raids had nothing at all in common with bungee jumping , you were wrong . |
| 14 | Maggie almost cringed at the outright challenge but Candace said nothing at all . |
| 15 | Rather than learning that ‘ nothing bad ’ follows a non-reinforced stimulus , the animal might learn that the stimulus predicts nothing at all , that the stimulus is not correlated with another event . |
| 16 | As Kenny and Kenny suggest , the " position of the landlord is now very much strengthened " and the " question is whether licences have anything at all to offer to the landlord looking for an income from his residential property . " |
| 17 | The interpretation of what remains as historical evidence is after all fundamental to the historians craft , but the deliberate preservation of historical source materials in the absence of context ( or worse still the failure to preserve them at all ) surely does little justice to the society in which we live . |
| 18 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 19 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 20 | After all if we say , ‘ I did n't appreciate that remark , ’ that tells the world something about us , and we may perceive that it is unwise to let people know that the remark disturbs us at all so we do not share our feelings . |
| 21 | If I start thinking of It as a person , entitled to a dignified end , the next thing will be of course that I have no right to end It at all . |
| 22 | To pick verses at random from the Bible proves nothing at all , except that we are gullible and are not using the Scriptures as we are intended to . |
| 23 | Alain said nothing at all and Jenna had to think fast , keeping as much to the truth as possible . |
| 24 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 25 | Have you had a chance to play it at all ? |
| 26 | Orcs and Goblins feel little pain anyway , but Forest Goblin shamans feel none at all . |
| 27 | If Pindar in the Thirteenth Olympian meant anything at all by saying that the Muses breathed sweetly over Corinth , he was not referring to his own day but perhaps to that of the Corinthian Arion who invented the dithyramb . |
| 28 | For many people the biggest problem with using a computer is simply that you have to type something on the keyboard to achieve anything at all . |
| 29 | Indeed , I may say it was not my wish to see you at all . |
| 30 | The front bed needles are all knitting , but the back bed needles do nothing at all . |