Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Mr has represented him , Mr said before that he he thought it was as duty solicitor that he , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor but , he is represented under legal aid though this defendant by a firm of solicitors in Birmingham and he 's anxious to be committed for trial today . |
| 2 | He , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor . |
| 3 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 4 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 5 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 6 | But why should he have considered me at all ? |
| 7 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 8 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 9 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 10 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 11 | How happy it would have made her at any other time . |
| 12 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 13 | Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all . |
| 14 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |
| 15 | He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’ |
| 16 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 17 | That would n't have surprised him at all . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most audacious thing about this exhibition is that the British Museum should have countenanced it at all . |
| 19 | The haciendas , the castles and the oast-houses would not have suited her at all . |
| 20 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 21 | ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ That is , if it was a row , not a sparring match that would n't have worried her at all . ’ |
| 23 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 24 | My grandmother may not have delivered you at all . ’ |
| 25 | Sometimes genuine letters are offered without the vital signature , some rabid autograph hunter having removed it at some period . |
| 26 | Now , we should have left it at that , but we were too drunk to run , whilst the clerks were sober and quick-witted . |
| 27 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |
| 28 | Several boys had asked her to dance but she had refused them all , afraid she might miss her chance with Pete , but he seemed not to have noticed her at all in spite of Louise 's dress . |
| 29 | Imminence did n't seem to have helped her at all . |
| 30 | The fact that as a teenager she had a series of complicated operations for a badly broken leg does not seem to have affected her at all . |