Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Esther , Liz and Alix , who in Jane Austen 's day would never have met at all , met in Cambridge in 1952 . |
| 2 | If not , he would never have written at all . |
| 3 | Some may have taken part-time jobs so that they could cope with the increasing demands at home , some may never have worked at all outside the home . |
| 4 | As Gandalf points out , all Sauron and Saruman and the orcs have done between them is ‘ bring Pippin and Merry with marvellous speed , and in the nick of time , to Fangorn , where otherwise they would never have come at all ! ’ — and so , one might say , though it is beyond Gandalf 's knowledge at the time , to rouse the Ents , overthrow Saruman , save Rohan , and free Théoden to make his decisive intervention at Minas Tirith . |
| 5 | But without Bristol 's research , and Martin Pipe 's attention , he might never have started at all . |
| 6 | But the anthropological arguments presented in Wilson 's On Human Nature ( 1978 ) are of such startling incompetence that , in those terms , a debate could never get started at all . |