Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 2 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 3 | She could feel a coolness on her brow , and would have reached up her fingers to find out what was there , but that she was possessed by a lassitude that prevented her moving at all . |
| 4 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 5 | Only the young man 's intuitive fear of the heavy couple who had entered his shop , closed the door and locked it , and pushed him roughly into the back room , made him co-operate at all . |
| 6 | Artai was incapable of sitting still for long , and only his abnormal concern with his appearance made him submit at all to the restrictive nature of the ministrations of the Y'frike slaves . |
| 7 | Ben spent so much time playing computer games , barely pausing to eat , that lately I 'd sometimes wondered if he knew I existed at all . |
| 8 | ‘ Wy did you come at all ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Then why did you come at all ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Did I ever — I mean , since we split up — did I ever — did we communicate at all ? ’ |
| 11 | Why did it bother at all ? |
| 12 | The question becomes ; why did it take so long , not why did it happen at all . |
| 13 | How , if this were a complete picture of the League 's activities , did it survive at all ? |
| 14 | Several times while I was at Magdalen he had me to dine at All Souls with its distinguished Fellows . |