Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [indef pn] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was still debating between taking you away from him , waiting for it to end anyway , or doing nothing at all — the last because I knew that if your reaction to me was purely physical , I could have you … but probably damage you emotionally . ’ |
| 2 | Reflect long and hard , I would hope , in the interests of the Conservative Party , before saying or doing anything at all . |
| 3 | Ethical problems will surface , for no power-based organization likes to have its idiosyncrasies made public , and the anthropologist who is a member of the family and not merely a temporary visitor to the ‘ backyard ’ exotica can find that writing anything at all becomes crucially problematic . |
| 4 | I had no plan , or rather a hundred plans , which is worse than having none at all . |
| 5 | But again , it 's the cheapest plan , and it 's a plan that today could be better than having none at all . |
| 6 | Work is a good deal less boring than doing nothing at all . ’ |
| 7 | ( Indeed , the reactions to the fact of the questionnaire varied from , on the one hand , the view that only HMI should authorise such an enquiry , to the view that asking anything at all was an unwarranted interference with personal liberty . |
| 8 | A brand-new Tavern , redolent of fresh mortar and size , and fronting nothing at all , had taken for its sign The Rail way Arms ; but that might be rash enterprise — and then it hoped to sell drink to the workmen . |
| 9 | I sat in the front row of the balcony with tears rolling down my face and feeling nothing at all . |