Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] at all " in BNC.

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1 You should only consider it at all if you believe your marriage can continue .
2 Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all .
3 Positivist criminology , on the other hand , seemed scarcely to recognise it at all .
4 The delicacy of his touch as he stroked her was such that Julia could hardly feel it at all , and yet it aroused in her a longing for him that she had never before experienced .
5 hardly seen you at all .
6 ‘ We hardly know her at all .
7 The road was crossed by a locked-down barrier about two kilometres further on , but Belov had a key and the barrier hardly slowed them at all .
8 He said you were very kind to him , you and Miguel — hardly hurt him at all . ’
9 You think you know people and then you wonder if you ever knew them at all . ’
10 ‘ I hardly knew her at all , ’ said Guy , unconcernedly , ‘ only she happened to mention it once . ’
11 They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all .
12 The Germans hardly shelled us at all .
13 ‘ But we hardly see you at all these days .
14 Not that I shall probably need it at all .
15 Does the idea of joining the Stamp Bug Club , interest you a lot , interest you a little or not really interest you at all ?
16 To tell you the truth , I do n't really describe you at all , ’ she said , slightly abashed .
17 but never really spoken it at all .
18 ‘ He did n't really produce them at all .
19 Sometimes I did n't even need it at all I could walk about shopping and everything .
20 If he had even profoundly wanted her at all .
21 The Scouts had rushed skiddingly from one pod to the next , annihilating languid swanky drugsters , warbling liquorites , squirming orgiasts who were responding to the war in their own indulgent style , if they even heeded it at all .
22 Franks flashed him a look of irritation , as if it was disloyal of the picture editor to criticise Nicola now that she was dead , indeed criticise her at all .
23 So we will need to manage the whole of that block to the right of the dotted line , and therefore I think , members will appreciate that we are not going to do that effect , or indeed do it at all , if we simply continue spending at the four hundred and fifty thousand pounds which is the costs that we 're incurring in the current year .
24 And we did n't go there to cut them at all because they were right open , right in the open and there was ho hope for them anyway .
25 She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair .
26 I never made more friends as easily as when I was among people whose language I spoke badly and who barely spoke mine at all .
27 An ideal filter would perfectly transmit signals at all desired frequencies and completely reject them at all other frequencies .
28 but then no-one else does it at all ( re-evaluation ) ;
29 Worse still , he/she perhaps never articulates them at all unless he/she expects to have to spell them out .
30 Training alone has never bothered me at all , but it 's nice to be able to go down the pub for a good chinwag after a session . ’
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