Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter does n't make me laugh at all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No , I do n't think I believe at all . |
| 4 | I do n't think I did at all Dennis . |
| 5 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 6 | Has it changed at all ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't like this conversation , if you do n't mind , ’ Jenna said primly , wanting him to stop at all costs . |
| 9 | She says they bark at all times of day and night . |
| 10 | She could feel a coolness on her brow , and would have reached up her fingers to find out what was there , but that she was possessed by a lassitude that prevented her moving at all . |
| 11 | I do not think she benefited at all financially — if she did it was a very small amount — and would n't have been able to keep any of the furniture had it not been for the kindness of Aunt Mary . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I just ca n't see it ending at all and I do n't know what 'll happen when John gets out . |
| 14 | Then it comes , and John does not see it coming at all . |
| 15 | Discretionary power and the opportunity to exercise it exist at all levels of police organizations . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | they wo n't , they wo n't , th they do n't intend to let it happen at all there |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose you trained at all the military academies ? ’ |
| 20 | When we are first trying to establish our values and standards in life , there are certain people , or it may be institutions , upon which we decide we have at all costs to rely . |
| 21 | Sod that for a lark , thought Lipman , who felt anxious to flash her felt at all costs . |
| 22 | One has to understand it to live at all . |
| 23 | J actually expends energy on caring about not caring in a ( non ) attempt to kid us nothing' at all bothers him into action , no sir . |
| 24 | I do n't think they do at all . |
| 25 | ‘ It 'll soon be dark and then we wo n't be able to see him coming at all . ’ |
| 26 | Strangely enough , the idea which occurred to her , in that first moment of its discovery , did n't make her feel at all afraid . |
| 27 | Only the young man 's intuitive fear of the heavy couple who had entered his shop , closed the door and locked it , and pushed him roughly into the back room , made him co-operate at all . |
| 28 | Artai was incapable of sitting still for long , and only his abnormal concern with his appearance made him submit at all to the restrictive nature of the ministrations of the Y'frike slaves . |
| 29 | Perhaps Isabelle had n't wanted them found at all , had intended her secret , whatever it was , to die with her . |
| 30 | Ben spent so much time playing computer games , barely pausing to eat , that lately I 'd sometimes wondered if he knew I existed at all . |