Example sentences of "anything at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could get virtually anything at one stage . |
| 2 | He was unaware of any high ‘ g ’ or , indeed , of anything at all , until he found himself regaining consciousness in a near vertical climb , about to tail slide . |
| 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 | He spent many hours of darkness , sweating lightly in spite or the autumn and early winter cold , wishing some of his replies unsaid , and wishing above all that he had said anything at all after the examiner 's last remark . |
| 5 | In Jewish , Christian and Islamic tradition the word ‘ God ’ is used for God not because its meaning is thought to correspond to the nature of God , but simply as a convenient label for the ultimate , altogether incomprehensible mystery because of which things exist instead of there not being anything at all . |
| 6 | For one thing , I thought I had cleared the nest recently , and that if she was sitting on anything at all , her clutch could not number more than two or three eggs . |
| 7 | During the entire day he felt a violent , dissatisfied feeling that his whole life was taking place in front of his eyes without anything at all taking place . |
| 8 | If there 's anything at all promising I 'm off to Deptford . ’ |
| 9 | Anything at all . |
| 10 | he was surprised at himself , at first , for feeling grateful , for being able to feel anything at all . |
| 11 | I was grateful to be called anything at all . |
| 12 | Some are things that have to be known if anything at all is to be known . |
| 13 | Jesus Christ 's resurrection has to become our resurrection if it is to mean anything at all . |
| 14 | Just now , she was too tired to think about anything at all . |
| 15 | It might signify hardly anything at all . |
| 16 | If celibacy and the life of professed religious women are about anything at all , they are about this hidden strand both within the Christian tradition in particular and in women 's lives in general . |
| 17 | Times are hard , and money is scarce , but please , if you can spare anything at all , contact Pat Drake as soon as possible . |
| 18 | Without doing anything at all he could make things happen for which he must be punished with slaps , missed meals or verbal assaults that left him trembling and incoherent . |
| 19 | The first question that has to be asked is whether in fact anything at all needs to be done . |
| 20 | Since there was never anything at all gratuitously coarse or vulgar about Karajan 's music-making , it is true that he never attempted to graft on to a score like Verdi 's Falstaff additional jokes or belly-laughs . |
| 21 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 22 | Questioning Ferdinando when next she saw him she grew exasperated with his inability to notice anything at all . |
| 23 | Letting the water buoy up my weight I stretched my feet down to touch bottom and found the water came up to my ears ; took a deep breath , put the rest of my head under and reached around for Harry , unable to see him , unable with open eyes to see anything at all . |
| 24 | The problem is getting an answer , or a least one that does n't tell us anything we do n't already know or indeed anything at all . |
| 25 | Reflect long and hard , I would hope , in the interests of the Conservative Party , before saying or doing anything at all . |
| 26 | Rupert Brooke found pleasure in simple things — most of which did n't cost anything at all . |
| 27 | If the idea of mobilizing community resources is to mean anything at all it must include helping parents and other carers to meet , and clarify needs , expectations and possibilities for further development . |
| 28 | It was called , How to Make a One Man Plane out of Hardly Anything at all and Escape when Things are Getting Difficult . |
| 29 | It was a good system for everyone except the artist , who was frequently offered a low rate for the job , then had his payment deferred , and sometimes had to battle for months to receive anything at all . |
| 30 | It had been too speedily initiated for he had not had time to construct anything at all plausible . |