Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 2 | Ron does n't remember this tall , slightly gawky figure approaching him at all . |
| 3 | There 's no reasson to keep it at all . |
| 4 | ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago . |
| 5 | The interpretation of what remains as historical evidence is after all fundamental to the historians craft , but the deliberate preservation of historical source materials in the absence of context ( or worse still the failure to preserve them at all ) surely does little justice to the society in which we live . |
| 6 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But in any case , you had no right to leave me at that pub all night . |
| 8 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 9 | After all if we say , ‘ I did n't appreciate that remark , ’ that tells the world something about us , and we may perceive that it is unwise to let people know that the remark disturbs us at all so we do not share our feelings . |
| 10 | If I start thinking of It as a person , entitled to a dignified end , the next thing will be of course that I have no right to end It at all . |
| 11 | If a method of collecting evidence is reliable , it means that anybody else using this method , or the same person using it at another time , would come up with the same results . |
| 12 | Some 64pc of those entitled to Family Credit receive it at any one time . |
| 13 | Have you had a chance to play it at all ? |
| 14 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 15 | Indeed , I may say it was not my wish to see you at all . |
| 16 | The vulgar Miller intrudes , and , with his fabliau and the nature of the genre and of fabliau language in mind , we can find some amusement in contemplating the possible sexual reading of " " unbokeled is the male " " , " the purse is unbuckled " , a vulgarity that the Host , playing the role given him at this point , would no doubt have considered excluded from his words . |
| 17 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 18 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 19 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 20 | His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all . |
| 21 | No one had ever been able to knock her for six , and if this man affected her at all it was because she disliked him so much . |
| 22 | whom he could trust , and he needed my youth to support him at this difficult time and so , like a fool , I had believed him and flown |
| 23 | Why risk seeing him at all ? |
| 24 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 25 | He stared out of his constricting net of anxieties and fears at this clean , smooth , well-intentioned boy , and wondered why he should be expected to make the effort to answer him at all . |
| 26 | If you feel further clarification is required BEFORE setting investigations in hand obtain it at this stage — otherwise unnecessary investigative duplication may arise . |
| 27 | ’ It took quite a lot of resolution to utter it at all . |
| 28 | Has all the nonsense off the field distracted you at all , made your h job harder ? |
| 29 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 30 | Would the ph physiotherapy help it at all ? |