Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [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 | There 's no reasson to keep it at all . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But in any case , you had no right to leave me at that pub all night . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Have you had a chance to play it at all ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Indeed , I may say it was not my wish to see you at all . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ’ It took quite a lot of resolution to utter it at all . |
| 14 | The constraint for social workers wanting to do family work with elderly clients is to be allowed the time to do it at all . |
| 15 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 16 | Now it was a three hundred page document er have , have many of the delegates been able to have time to digest it at all ? |