Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] at all " in BNC.

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1 Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’
2 The people of Ely ‘ have but a turfy scent and fenny posture about them , which smell I did not relish at all with any content ’ .
3 At this moment she did not care at all whether she was observed , or what the observer might think of her .
4 One study showed that about half of teenage mothers did not go to the antenatal clinic until the third or fourth month , almost one in five had waited until the fifth month of pregnancy , and a few did not go at all .
5 Habershon 's scheme was only eleventh on Angell and Pownall 's and it did not appear at all on Burn s , g while Rochead and Dwyer 's schemes were both rejected by Angell and Pownall for slightly exceeding the stipulated site .
6 Compulsory admission occurred where the doctor ascribed the sick role but the patient did not accept it or did not react at all .
7 And certainly , trade book publishing did not do at all badly in nineteen ninety one in a recessionary environment and erm , there are , as Frank has mentioned particularly within Penguin , quite a lot of internal restructuring has gone on and one would hope that margins would improve over the next few years as a result of that .
8 For a while , however , they did not talk at all .
9 She did not think at all of the consequences , only of the act itself .
10 The girls grin did not alter at all as she drew her right hand from her sleeve , holding a large , ancient , projectile-firing pistol , and blew off a large bit of the creature 's head .
11 She did not sing at all , as it happened , but there were plenty of singers there .
12 The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France .
13 One night we did not sleep at all .
14 It seemed to Charlotte as if she did not sleep at all that night , though her subsequent recollections of dreaming about telephones and disembodied voices suggested otherwise .
15 It did not accord at all with the normal context of school life .
16 He had newer been out of Scotland before but he did not feel at all homesick .
17 The other horses clonked and snorted softly in the darkness behind their partitions , so that he did not feel at all alone , but in a sort of family .
18 The man 's story was that she had told him she did not feel at all well , and he had told her to lie down on the sofa in the living room .
19 And she said it with such pride and such display that Clara did not feel at all obliged to conceal the amazement and delight that she felt , as she might , if confronted with a more worldly modesty , have done : for Clelia 's manner declared , this is singular this is beautiful , this may legitimately amaze , you betray no innocence in admiring this .
20 Cleo did not feel at all frightened .
21 I did not feel at all comfortable .
22 Now , however , crouched out here in the dark , rustling bushes , he did not feel at all secure .
23 The fact that she had been protecting Ana brought a flashing glance from Felipe but he did not soften at all .
24 Thin cold fingers , that did not move at all .
25 The penis did not exist at all in the British sex film because it was considered rude . ’
26 A second dominant trend in the twentieth century is the gradual extension of democracy , but as I showed in Chapter 1 this was a slow and halting process in the interwar years , with democracy being suppressed in several European countries , by fascist regimes , the Stalinist dictatorship and the dictatorships in Portugal and Spain , while in the colonial territories it either did not exist at all , or in a few cases only in rudimentary forms .
27 We did not speak in the corridors there , indeed after nine o'clock at night we did not speak at all .
28 Stephen did not speak at all until he was seven and even now at 15 only answers questions with a single word .
29 The use of a local lawyer as the team spokesman after two All Blacks were involved in a post-match scuffle in Llanelli in 1989 did not reflect at all well on Sturgeon 's ability as a manager who could stand aside and view the matter dispassionately .
30 Mainstream work did not refer at all to the potential role of minority languages in the curriculum , nor to the major debates that have taken place in this area .
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