Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 2 | As we discovered in Part One , many of the initiators of conflict in later life are learned and impressed upon us at this vital period . |
| 3 | What mystifies me is that any woman could be attracted to you at all . |
| 4 | That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage . |
| 5 | I do n't know whether you 've come across her at all . |
| 6 | To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time . |
| 7 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 8 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |
| 9 | They have erm what 's called the players ' theatre , I do n't know whether you 've heard of it at all erm they belong , they 're members of it . |
| 10 | I had n't heard of it at all , do n't know what |
| 11 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 12 | The only charge that can be made against you at this moment is of theft from our house , however that may be read hereafter . |
| 13 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |
| 14 | If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere . |
| 15 | have you thought about it at all ? |
| 16 | He had thought , insofar as he had thought about it at all , that all prisons must be akin ; that there must be stone cells , barred windows , grilles , gaolers , other prisoners close by . |
| 17 | He might keep the bitterness alive in his heart , even if nobody knew or talked about it at all . |
| 18 | ‘ If you 've thought of me at all since we last met I 'd be very surprised . ’ |
| 19 | I did n't mind , I was happy that he still talked to me at all . |
| 20 | I have dwelt on it at some length because I believe the opposite to be the case . |
| 21 | I felt the soap operas were raising issues about how you survived and coped in the late eighties that both addressed political issues and also involved me emotionally , whereas nothing about the formal election coverage got to me at all — apart from the Labour Party Political Broadcast , the first one in history to be repeated by popular demand ! |
| 22 | ‘ You must have thought you merited punishment , for the idea to have occurred to you at all . ’ |
| 23 | Rothermere , indeed , hardly cared about it at all . |
| 24 | These contained a number of allegations that had never been raised with her at all . |
| 25 | This includes a good proportion of the population as , in addition to persons currently employed by the state , many others have been employed by it at some earlier stage in their lives . |
| 26 | Check your records to make sure that your employee was employed by you at some time during that week . |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't have known about it at all , except that Mum sent me a little note to tell me he 'd passed away — in his sleep , she said . |
| 28 | It has to be emphasised that the committee worked always in the shadow of the law : Section 132 of the Public Health Act 1875 had said that any expenses incurred by a local authority in maintaining in a hospital a patient who is not a pauper , should be deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the local authority , and could be recovered from him at any time within six months after his discharge from the hospital . |
| 29 | The justification of the invaders , based partly on the doubtful assumption that proximity gave sovereign rights , but more specifically on the claim that the islands had belonged to them at some time in the past , bears comparison with the Zionist claim to Palestine . |
| 30 | I mean what we 've heard that in fact erm they had met in prison , but was that known to you at that time or simply that they were known to each other and that had a record ? |