Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | She did n't know what to say at all . |
| 3 | I do n't know what to do at all . |
| 4 | The poor thing can hardly bring herself to speak at all . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't like this conversation , if you do n't mind , ’ Jenna said primly , wanting him to stop at all costs . |
| 6 | Well I 'd like to see a very open report , and that 's why I Mr , and I 'd like him to look at all the options , we 're deferring this so that we can see what 's possible , you know , , perhaps Hanson Trust would like to come along and offer us fifty million pounds for it , that 'd be a fair deal would n't it , perhaps somebody else would do that . |
| 7 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 8 | The president is ostensibly the driver of this large complex machine , but at the beginning of each new administration the question is : Will the man temporarily in charge of this unwieldy , temperamental vehicle be able to master its tricky controls and get it to move at all ? |
| 9 | Elderly people pay for this according to their income , which has to be declared in full , but those on very small incomes may have nothing to pay at all . |
| 10 | One has to understand it to live at all . |
| 11 | Whenever Annunciata came to fetch the child she was firm : he must go at once or otherwise his mother would be displeased and might not allow him to come at all . |
| 12 | Apathy , that dead state , does not allow us to recharge at all . |
| 13 | Several times while I was at Magdalen he had me to dine at All Souls with its distinguished Fellows . |