Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll knock for you at eight for dinner . |
| 2 | ‘ Shee-it , ’ I said , and felt guilty that I was leaving the island without sharing the chicken dinner that Sarah Straker was doubtless cooking for me at that very moment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's not something just to be pushed to one side , and , ‘ Oh , yes , he 's coming at eleven o'clock , so I 'll think about it at five to eleven . ’ |
| 5 | These Orkney parents were neither informed nor consulted about anything at all . |
| 6 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 7 | If she was going to quarrel about it at all she would have to do it seriously . |
| 8 | But he never made to go after you at all . |
| 9 | Did the union act for you at this particular time then ? |
| 10 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I include them here to encourage you to write about anything at all . |
| 13 | Price : £108,994 0–60mph : 6.5secs 30–70mph : 6.1secs 30–50 in 4th : 2.4secs Top Speed : 143mph Overall MPG : 15.1 Citation : For putting the fight back into Bentley and creating a form of transport that wants for nothing at all |
| 14 | The girl was glued to the spot , terror-struck , pop-eyed , quivering , knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last . |
| 15 | I wonder if it counts for anything at all when it comes to expressing more profound thought . |
| 16 | Will you wait for me at three-thirty ? |
| 17 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 18 | Too happy to feel ashamed of being such a poor guest , too relaxed to worry about anything at all , she found her shoes and went downstairs to the terrace . |
| 19 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 20 | The challenge drove him to a healthy distraction , and he was still occupied with it at three thirty in the morning , when the telephone rang . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know why I bother with you at all . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As we discovered in Part One , many of the initiators of conflict in later life are learned and impressed upon us at this vital period . |
| 25 | Anyway I wo n't say any more because I 'll other people will eventually go but Hugh Berger is a gentleman who owns it or who lives in it at this time |
| 26 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 27 | Their excellent long-distance vision spots something suspicious and they fly to it at high speed . |
| 28 | What mystifies me is that any woman could be attracted to you at all . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 'm afraid not , Miss Holbrook ; that idea does n't appeal to me at all . ’ |