Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] at all " in BNC.

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1 It never occurred to me at all .
2 Man , she hardly registered with me at all . ’
3 Never never heard from her at all since then .
4 The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted .
5 It was a relief when others came , others who took no notice of her but , if they thought of her at all , must think her as seasoned a traveller as they .
6 Hank , when Mrs Stych thought of him at all , always gave her a headache .
7 What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone .
8 African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives .
9 And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed .
10 But whatever she was up to — and it was something — she spent days ticking and marking the party guest list , a thick , creamy piece of paper she kept with her at all times .
11 Gallup ( in the UK ) and Starch ( in the USA ) used to run so-called ‘ reading and noting ’ surveys regularly , in which readers of a magazine are taken through the last issue and questioned about every page — whether they looked at it at all ; read some of it ; read all of it ; etc .
12 Our constituents look to us to obtain redress ; if the only satisfaction that we can give them is to say that the matter is out of our hands , it will not be long before they begin to wonder why they voted for us at all .
13 In the past , he had only ever spoken well of his mother , when he spoke of her at all .
14 ‘ He was so furious , he hardly spoke to me at all . ’
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