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Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Peter does n't make me laugh at all .
2	The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training .
3	It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all .
4	My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie .
5	No , I do n't think I believe at all .
6	I do n't think I did at all Dennis .
7	It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’
8	Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates .
9	Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples-land of middle-aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) .
10	hot water bottles are useful for keeping you warm at any time of the day or night .
11	Hot water bottles are useful for keeping you warm at any time of the day or night .
12	You 're beginning to sound like a mother hen ; I half expect you to cluck at any minute . ’
13	When you 've done that I want you to look at this .
14	Has anybody looked at that ?
15	Erm , has anybody looked at any of the other books , like for example , the one on ?
16	When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart .
17	Has it changed at all ?
18	And , although this huge deficit is in large measure a consequence of the fall in tax revenue and the cost of unemployment in the recession , the IFS expect it to remain at this level for some years even if a gradual recovery does take place .
19	And , although this huge deficit is in large measure a consequence of the fall in tax revenue and the cost of unemployment in the recession , the IFS expect it to stay at this level for some years even if a gradual recovery does take place .
20	He let it go at that , smiling to himself as he suggested to Iris Sunderby that she go up to her room and put her things together .
21	That old smarty pants Dr Samuel Johnson was fond of saying that a woman preaching was like a dog standing on hind legs — it was not done well but it was surprising to find it done at all .
22	I was a fool ; I ought to have let it go at that , but I asked him why he did n't approve — and had a regular tirade !
23	She did n't know what to say at all .
24	I do n't know what to do at all .
25	I do n't know what happened at this particular gig , but I know it was his home town — it was the most important gig to David because it was in front of a home crowd .
26	One of the advantages of using drama in this way ( when the narrative continues over a period of several weeks ) is that both the teacher and the children can change roles , enabling us to look at any given topic from different points of view .
27	In this particular interview irony was continuously deployed against almost any remark other boys made which hinted at any involvement with the text .
28	There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other .
29	Let me go at this another way .
30	Bruin many years later became the CO of No 84 Squadron in Greece — that is before we were all thrown out by the Germans and , let me say at this stage , aided and abetted by a rather unmentionable faction of Greek insurgence .