Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | While other constitutional texts , where they existed at all , have for long periods been purely notional , national autonomy never ceased to have a certain operation reality . |
| 2 | It was only eight-thirty and it did n't seem likely that I 'd go to bed early , if I went at all . |
| 3 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
| 4 | To complete the welcome , she had — on Aunt Bridget 's advice — paid particular attention to her own appearance , making sure that if she smelt at all , it was a dried of lavender . |
| 5 | And if if this was covered up here I E this this black dot was say made white let's say , we 'd only have two matching and if that was made white we 'd have one and then if we changed at all that top row we 'd have zero matching . |
| 6 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 7 | What men would her own two children marry , if they married at all ? |
| 8 | If they worked at all , they were late , had huge cost overruns , failed to live up to expectations , and lost out to their rivals ' more carefully thought through systems . |
| 9 | Also , the detailed cross-tabulations ( not in the Appendix ) showed that when APR and/or total credit cost was lower for shorter repayment periods , people who had originally chosen the very longest possible repayment period tended to switch — if they switched at all — to a repayment period right at the other end of the scale . |
| 10 | When people were shown APR to start with , and then additionally shown the total cost of credit , they more often switched to a shorter repayment period ( if they switched at all — and differences were very small anyway ) . |
| 11 | If they differed at all , the differences would seem to have resided only in their membership — in specific individuals or personalities . |
| 12 | This was especially so with people who were likely to borrow large sums of money , if they borrowed at all . |
| 13 | in the erm living room , or dining lounge , what other light fittings did people buy apart from that , if they did at all ? |
| 14 | They seemed to look through and beyond him and to focus — if they focused at all — on something infinitely remote . |
| 15 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 16 | For the opportunity , if it existed at all , to make such a change would have occurred only in the context of a much more broadly based revolutionary movement . |
| 17 | It could be like the mysterious caller on the telephone to Mr Wallace requesting the visit to Qualtrough Avenue : you just did not know if it existed at all . |
| 18 | The sun came late in December if it came at all . |
| 19 | So we see the difficulties of defining even a recent period of earth history , and the protagonists of the varied viewpoints would probably ( if it mattered at all ) argue just as fiercely as stratigraphers over the boundaries . |
| 20 | By stating that he rarely went to the theatre , and needed to be forcibly taken there if he went at all , he managed to lay bare the inadequacies of modern drama and defined the conditions of a new sort of drama altogether . |
| 21 | If he came at all . |
| 22 | If he exaggerated at all , it was in supposing that anything I might say mattered all that much . |
| 23 | Is it because I studied in your country — or is it because I studied at all ? ’ |
| 24 | When I looked at all this stuff , it came to me that it was very interesting that they thought of Beauty as beautiful and Cruelty as cruel . |
| 25 | When I looked at all this stuff , it came to me that it was very interesting that they thought of beauty as beautiful and cruelty as cruel . |
| 26 | I expect he hoped to have as little as possible to do with her , but when she made a dead set at him , as she did at all young married men , that was no longer possible . |
| 27 | Thank you very much for that question , I think it is an important one , because we looked at our international work , as we did at all our work , over the period that we were considering reorganisation . |
| 28 | In as far as they existed at all , relations with these countries were conducted as between tributaries of the Chinese empire . |
| 29 | Genuine republican feeling , in so far as it existed at all in the major States , was a nostalgia or very occasionally an aspiration , never a programme . |