Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] at [det] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | If she was going to quarrel about it at all she would have to do it seriously . |
4 | But he never made to go after you at all . |
5 | Did the union act for you at this particular time then ? |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 |
9 | ‘ I do n't know why I bother with you at all . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 |
13 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
14 | What mystifies me is that any woman could be attracted to you at all . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | I 'm afraid not , Miss Holbrook ; that idea does n't appeal to me at all . ’ |
17 | ‘ I 'm here strictly for business and being dissected does not appeal to me at all . |
18 | Well , I yes , yes , I does n't appeal to me at all . |
19 | I never imagined that the business side would appeal to you at all . |
20 | I do n't object to it at all . |
21 | It never occurred to me at all . |
22 | Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time . |
23 | That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage . |
24 | I do n't know whether you 've come across her at all . |
25 | How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal . |
26 | To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time . |
27 | Did n't you think of Him at all ? ’ |
28 | ‘ In truth , ’ Suragai said , ‘ I did not think of you at all . |
29 | ‘ Now I simply do n't think of you at all . ’ |
30 | — or does not think of you at all . |