Example sentences of "anything at all " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 If there 's anything at all promising I 'm off to Deptford . ’
8 Anything at all .
9 he was surprised at himself , at first , for feeling grateful , for being able to feel anything at all .
10 I was grateful to be called anything at all .
11 Some are things that have to be known if anything at all is to be known .
12 Jesus Christ 's resurrection has to become our resurrection if it is to mean anything at all .
13 Just now , she was too tired to think about anything at all .
14 It might signify hardly anything at all .
15 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 .
16 Times are hard , and money is scarce , but please , if you can spare anything at all , contact Pat Drake as soon as possible .
17 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 .
18 The first question that has to be asked is whether in fact anything at all needs to be done .
19 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 .
20 ‘ 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 .
21 Questioning Ferdinando when next she saw him she grew exasperated with his inability to notice anything at all .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Reflect long and hard , I would hope , in the interests of the Conservative Party , before saying or doing anything at all .
25 Rupert Brooke found pleasure in simple things — most of which did n't cost anything at all .
26 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 .
27 It was called , How to Make a One Man Plane out of Hardly Anything at all and Escape when Things are Getting Difficult .
28 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 .
29 It had been too speedily initiated for he had not had time to construct anything at all plausible .
30 Whether to say anything at all , what to say , how to give practical help — all are tricky questions to address .
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