Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb pp] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeffrey , who had been the youngest MP , but not for long , and the deputy chairman of the Party for a little while , considered that he had not done at all badly . |
| 2 | He had played so extraordinarily fair with her the night before , he reflected , contentedly , that it was as if he had not played at all . |
| 3 | One he had not seen at all , the fourth , who had stayed at the hideout ready to kill Simon Cormack on a phone call , or a no-show by his colleagues by a certain time . |
| 4 | The house itself had not changed at all , but my cousins certainly had . |
| 5 | Both Fabien and I had become older , harder , perhaps , but she had not changed at all . |
| 6 | Shultz swiftly put out word , through a spokesman , that he had not known at all . |
| 7 | But in 24 of 40 WFS countries , among women who worked , levels of infant mortality were lower when the mother was employed away from home in anon-farm occupation ( some education and skills ) than when she had not worked at all since marriage . |
| 8 | Kopyion had expressed a great deal of interest in these killings but had not passed on all the information available to him . |
| 9 | Considering that Northerns had not practised at all this season it was a remarkable result . |
| 10 | Work for older women was as badly paid , but for many it was more of a gain because they had not earned at all while their children were young . |
| 11 | ‘ What were you confessing ? ’ she asked , bold as brass , walking up to him in her everyday short skirt and torn black stockings , as if the terrible incident on the stairs had not happened at all . |
| 12 | No , that was untrue : he had not tried at all . |
| 13 | We should add that after the hearing was completed we received a letter from Mr. Persaud inviting us to reopen the hearing to allow him to address additional points to us which he had not mentioned at all in his opening submissions to us or in his reply . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the weather had not improved at all , setting me back several days . |
| 15 | She had told him where she was booked , and at that stage he had n't reacted at all . |
| 16 | How strange , Merrill reflected that evening , as her mind did a re-run of the lunchtime conversation , that she had n't felt at all bitter towards Rob when , on Saturday , she had learned that he had been the man in question . |
| 17 | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things had n't gone at all as he 'd hoped . |
| 18 | I just , I just honest to God I had n't realized at all the guy was sort of and says er oh it 's probably I said no I 'm sure I was really cheesed . |
| 19 | And when Laura had contacted the person who 'd written one of the glowing references the woman on the other end of the phone had n't sounded at all surprised . |
| 20 | At any rate the effect was the same as if I had n't written at all . |
| 21 | By then Tec-huc and Pulvidon and their followers had seen me , but had n't looked at all surprised . |
| 22 | So Formentera had n't worked after all . |
| 23 | I felt comfortable and relaxed , much better than the previous day when I had n't slept at all , worried about whether my injury would stand up , whether I had come all this way for nothing . |
| 24 | It was almost eleven before he appeared , looking as though he had n't slept at all . |
| 25 | The best man said he was n't used to speeches , he nearly had n't arrived at all himself , but he just wanted to thank Father here for all he had done and the people of the bride here for this feast and all the trouble they had gone to , and then he proposed the toast . |
| 26 | Funnily enough , that had n't seemed at all real . |
| 27 | He was standing quietly and had n't spoken at all . |
| 28 | She said it quietly , but then wished she had n't spoken at all . |
| 29 | Lee may have found all that a valuable lesson , but there were times when it seemed Marvin just had n't learned at all . |
| 30 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |