Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when it " just happens " , spontaneously and romantically , they and their girlfriends hope they do n't get pregnant , or they do n't think about it at all . |
| 2 | If she was going to quarrel about it at all she would have to do it seriously . |
| 3 | But he never made to go after you at all . |
| 4 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 5 | What did she know of him after all ? |
| 6 | She wanted to struggle against him with all her might . |
| 7 | Lovat ended that appeal by emphasising his belief that it was ‘ a most wise & prudent maxim that a man in power should do for those that he is pretty sure will stand & fall with him in all events ’ , and in general that was the major qualification for appointment to the judicial bench in eighteenth-century Scotland . |
| 8 | ‘ Mrs Cecil 's departure was preceded by such an entire sinking of her constitution and by an exhaustion tending so much to lethargy that she was seldom able to converse … and it was a peculiar favour to herself and daughters that Mr Simeon and her excellent son were in the house and watched for every reviving moment to pray or converse with her in all holy tenderness , till she ceased to breathe . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm sure there are people who do n't sort of bother with them at all , you know just saw er a man he dropped he 's erm , he dropped his till receipt and he looked as if he had a tremendous amount you know in his basket so I reckon it would of been over , but there was no erm cos you get it stamped yes so we have er , yes I 'd forgotten about those little erm chickens of course , so we can have that roast |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know why I bother with you at all . |
| 11 | Particularly er children or animals who have no say in it at all , we , we take the view that er it 's a family show and we take that responsibility very carefully and very seriously . |
| 12 | What mystifies me is that any woman could be attracted to you at all . |
| 13 | One is that he is rather clean and tidy and polite and fastidious as a person ; the sweatier , wilder , rawer , dirtier areas of human sexuality do not appeal to him at all . |
| 14 | I 'm afraid not , Miss Holbrook ; that idea does n't appeal to me at all . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm here strictly for business and being dissected does not appeal to me at all . |
| 16 | Well , I yes , yes , I does n't appeal to me at all . |
| 17 | I never imagined that the business side would appeal to you at all . |
| 18 | Somehow she 'd still hoped against hope that Ace might have come to her after all . |
| 19 | I do n't object to it at all . |
| 20 | It never occurred to me at all . |
| 21 | When you have worked through the sensations , looked at them from all angles and asked yourself why they have entered your life and what is to be gained from them , it is important to be able to let them go . |
| 22 | I do n't know whether you 've come across her at all . |
| 23 | … the novel is destined to be perceived from within itself — the same as the real world … to enjoy a novel we must feel surrounded by it on all sides … |
| 24 | Everybody 's completely different and there 's such a tendency not to study people really and to simply think of them as all exactly the same , ‘ You 're 75 and you 're old and you 've got to put up with that . |
| 25 | Did n't you think of Him at all ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ In truth , ’ Suragai said , ‘ I did not think of you at all . |
| 27 | ‘ Now I simply do n't think of you at all . ’ |
| 28 | — or does not think of you at all . |
| 29 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 30 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |