Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 2 | Emphasize the difficulty of saying anything at all with regard to religion which may not be received by someone in a misleading way . |
| 3 | Christine said thanks to sheer determination and hours of extra work Wesley was now capable of doing anything at all . |
| 4 | It is well recognized because unless you have managed to work out how things actually happen you have no chance of achieving anything at all . |
| 5 | He runs away along with Lydia with no idea of marrying her at all and is forced to marry Lydia by Mr. Darcy becoming between them . |
| 6 | Some of his many poems and humorous versifications were published in 1991 and in his introduction he claimed : ‘ The reasons for presenting them at all are twofold . |
| 7 | Both you and I are much blamed by the " crouner and capitanes " and in truth not without cause , for they say there is no wrong done in Ireland but only that which is done by these men that come from Ila , and Auchinbrecke said to me that he would complain to my Lord of you for sending them at all , except men you have passed and will be answerable for . |
| 8 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
| 9 | Soldiers and diplomats who knew Yugoslavia well could make its complexities sound like an excuse for doing nothing at all . |
| 10 | Or do you not see any point in keeping them at all ? is the number to dial . |
| 11 | The Directive 's provisions are also so flexible , because of the difficulty in reaching a consensus among the member states and commentators , that there are grave doubts about whether there is any point in adopting them at all . |
| 12 | Extreme care should therefore be taken in prescribing them at all : if the recipient has addictive disease these drugs will make it worse . |
| 13 | And as Mary Douglas ( 1973 : 15 ) had pointed out , ‘ if we can not bring the argument back from tribal ethnography to ourselves , then there is little point in starting it at all ’ . |
| 14 | So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage . |
| 15 | Since they would n't want to declare their real objective , even if they had one , they see little point in having one at all . |
| 16 | ‘ I meant in spotting them at all . |
| 17 | Some owners of OTC-traded warrants claimed that they had never received anything written about exercising them at all . |
| 18 | I am sorry to confess that I did not look forward to seeing him at all . |
| 19 | If your next-door neighbours insist on blasting you at all hours with Wagner 's Gottedammerung " , be thankful : it might have been Heavy Metal . |
| 20 | This does not imply that existing defectives should be done away with , nor that we should condemn the decision of a couple , whose foetus is at risk , that to have a retarded baby would be preferable to having none at all . |
| 21 | In New York most beach pollution comes from overloaded storm drains , while in Europe , particularly in the southern countries , many cities discharge their sewage into the sea without treating it at all . |
| 22 | This method has the added advantage that , because it will be possible to subtract all the lower numbers without carrying anything at all , you can work it out from left to right . |
| 23 | She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was . |
| 24 | Now you know the rules , set a good example to other drivers by using them at all times ; who knows , they may even copy your driving style and do it right too ! |
| 25 | A white dot is produced by printing nothing at all . |
| 26 | We can split domestic labour 50–50 , but I 'm the one who 's going to feel defined by doing it at all . |