Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that 's right , yeah , so you do at least get one |
| 2 | He remembered how , as a child , by dozens of small acts of perversity , he had brought his mother 's wrath down upon himself , so that she did at least notice his existence . |
| 3 | ‘ Could you please at least tell them it 's quite urgent ? |
| 4 | We ourselves are to some extent part of this problem , but we do at least live and work in the village full time . |
| 5 | Dying inside , she wanted to cry , and if his words did nothing else they did at least stiffen her disintegrating spine . |
| 6 | Quite often these royal summit meetings produced as little as their much-vaunted 20th-century counterparts , but , like them , they did at least keep open channels of communication . |
| 7 | If neither Herbert Wilcox , Michael Balcon nor Victor Saville started off with much in the way of imaginative flair , they did at least know what was required to build successful enterprises . |
| 8 | Although the output reductions are a worry in themselves , they do at least suggest that the industry is not about to start laying down a large supply of surplus whisky that could upset prices in the future . |
| 9 | But , unlike the rest of the rich world 's sheep , they do at least stand on their own four feet without any government support . |
| 10 | But although by themselves they do not take us this far , they do at least point the way . |
| 11 | The following excerpts may not clarify the best form of action should that occur , but they do at least point up some of the dilemmas . |
| 12 | ( I am not arguing that the Americans do not themselves engage in all manner of protectionist devices , but merely note that they do at least have an intrinsic belief in the benefits of Adam Smith 's hidden hand , a view which is not wholly shared on the Continent of Europe . ) |
| 13 | Although the various social sciences take different interests in such matters and differ also on how such an understanding of them can be achieved , they do at least share this common source of data ; that is , what the members of society have produced , and are producing , in the way of artifacts , social groups , institutions , documents of various kinds , systems of conflict and co-operation , records , and so on . |
| 14 | But they do at least survive , and after a period of time will be able to regrow their tails . |
| 15 | Whilst peers may not read everything written in their field , they do at least know who is writing . |
| 16 | Whilst peers may not read everything written in their field , they do at least know who is writing . |
| 17 | If it was sad that in England in 1963 his form finally drifted away , he did at least give his last fine Test innings , an unbeaten 74 , to the Manchester crowd , a happy choice of venue in view of his connection with Radcliffe and the university . |
| 18 | He did n't take a positivistic line and argue that the sentence ‘ God exists ’ is literally meaningless , but he did at least think that it was , expressed a proposition which no reasonable person would accept . |
| 19 | I do n't imagine that he felt any easier immediately I applied the hot blankets , but suggestion is a powerful weapon in the armoury of the doctor , and he did at least manage a smile . |
| 20 | He did at least take two more wickets himself , emerging as a five-wicket demon in the match , the standard of England 's slip catching being restored at the hands of Hick and Atherton . |
| 21 | To judge by Vincent 's subsequent letter of 15 October , it did at least bring them back into contact . |
| 22 | While the procedure was to some extent artificial and led to conclusions that did not always stand up to later study , it did at least mean that the different forms of early Christian teaching could now be admitted for discussion , and the possibility of real conflict between opposing views recognised as a natural and proper element in the development . |
| 23 | And while there were crudely economic motives in , for example , sending Hitchcock to reconstruct English and Oriental settings in Italy and Germany for his first film , The Pleasure Garden ( 1925 ) , it did at least show that he was as aware as the Film Society 's membership of the backwardness of British films . |
| 24 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 25 | Everything seems to have gone wrong for poor old Gooch since his marriage broke up , culminating in that bizarre dismissal on Monday , but he does at least have one big advantage over the other members of the trio . |
| 26 | But it does at least prompt the question whether the suppression in them , not now of individuality but of individual interest in the sense of ownership , is only likely to be volunteered where the amount of that interest is seen by the prospective volunteer as marginal to his other interests , concerns and obligations . |
| 27 | There are of course endless problems for the analyst who wishes to use the concept of the collective consciousness but it does at least involve an attempt to locate the basis of meaning in a social context . |
| 28 | Though this means Romeo 's assumption that the Friar knows nought of love seem misplaced , it does at least make his rash engagement with the lovers more comprehensible . |
| 29 | Whatever one may think of Sex , Lies and Videotape — — and it does n't have to be much — it does at least address the question of the gaze and of masculine sexuality . |
| 30 | If quantification is risky , it does at least seem that the two-class , middle/ working conception is quite deeply rooted in popular ideology . |