Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't need to go through Cherbourg at all . |
| 2 | She was therefore at some pains to explain that the only reason she had come into Perugia at all was because of an appointment with Ivy Cook , of all people , who had telephoned her earlier that morning . |
| 3 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 4 | I think we 've put a tremendous er amount of effort into trying to be a good neighbour ; we rely on the local community very heavily for it 's support if we 're going to exist and flourish in Oxford at all . |
| 5 | ‘ What I should have done , ’ he said smoothly , as he pressed the glass into her hand , ‘ was tell you that you would not be returning to Milano at all . ’ |
| 6 | The biggest problem ICL faces is credibility , Enberg admits : when people think groupware they still think Notes , when they think of ICL they think of mainframes , and often in the US they do n't think of ICL at all . |
| 7 | He did not think of Stef at all . |
| 8 | ‘ Suddenly , ’ Mr Parker recalled , ‘ he calmly turned to me and said he would not negotiate for Taylor at all , would pretend he knew nothing about him , and would go all out for the other goalkeeper . ’ |
| 9 | They might indeed come to believe that they were not really living in Africa at all . |
| 10 | It was growing dark as I walked down the pier alone , his jacket draped over my shoulders , and I wondered if I should really look for Wilde at all . |
| 11 | She do n't look like Marie at all . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't really look like Manson at all , ’ he admits , ‘ but I just felt that I could do it best ! |
| 13 | No help there , and in fact there was little more help to be had from Mordecai at all . |
| 14 | ‘ The English police report that Basil went to Paris on the midnight train on the ninth of November , but the French police say that he never arrived in Paris at all . |
| 15 | Matthew indicated Cindy ‘ … talked to Emma at all ? ’ |
| 16 | She did not look at Giles at all as she spoke and the sentences piled one upon another , without restraint , like a flow of thought ; there was even a low level of enjoyment in the sense of release . |
| 17 | Scotland Yard urged people not to drive into London at all unless their journey is necessary , and warned those who do arrive that normal parking restrictions will be strictly enforced . |
| 18 | It was nothing to do with Dorrainge at all ; Lugh would make the decisions about where they pitched camp and how much bear meat they brought . |
| 19 | I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said . |
| 20 | white belly distinguishing from both Dunlin and larger Knot ; more conspicuous white wing-bar separates from Dunlin at all times . |
| 21 | She could n't understand why I needed to lodge in London at all , but insisted that any accommodation I settled on had to be approved by the university authorities . |
| 22 | But why are you asking about Meryl at all ? |
| 23 | The survival of a strong monarchy in Germany in the tenth and eleventh centuries , and the fact that a weak monarchy survived in France at all , bear witness to the importance of the Church and of churchmen in the making of medieval kingship . |
| 24 | But the most striking thing about Bagehot 's essay on Peel , in the light of the last full week of this election campaign , is that it simply does not apply to Major at all . |
| 25 | One of its themes will have to be the confusion in our morality that the epidemic has exposed , and this has been much in evidence in the past few days in response to the ludicrous concert in commemoration of Freddie Mercury , and then the renewal of the controversial theory that Aids may not be linked to HIV at all , but instead , to cite one example , to promiscuous sexual activity that reputedly attacks the immune system . |
| 26 | He seemed bewildered , shuffled about his room yawning and stretching , and only after several minutes of this focused on Wilson at all . |
| 27 | ‘ Five and twenty years ago ’ , he wrote , ‘ who in all the earth would have invested his money in a Mexican bank ; have trusted his savings in a Mexican mine ; or have considered it a safe and prudent thing to go to Mexico at all ? ’ |
| 28 | He lists things that God has done through him ; none of the credit belongs to Paul at all . |
| 29 | So whatever the numerical distribution of jobs or of unemployment , the tentacles of control over those jobs , and over the functioning of the economy as a whole , in the main lead back — if they stay within Britain at all — to London . |
| 30 | And then I bought another one and then I bought a third one so that I had three combines but there were no other combines on Orkney at all . |