Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 2 | In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts . |
| 3 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 4 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 5 | They could have discharged themselves at any time , but they were destitute and the best was done for them that was possible in the circumstances . |
| 6 | But why should he have considered me at all ? |
| 7 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 8 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 9 | I should have done it at first ; I could have paid it then . |
| 10 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 11 | You should have phoned me at ten o'clock , I would have picked you up . |
| 12 | ‘ Anna should have said nothing at all . |
| 13 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 14 | The umpires might also have noticed something at some point along the line ! |
| 15 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 16 | You might have felt nothing at all . |
| 17 | How happy it would have made her at any other time . |
| 18 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 19 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |
| 20 | And if he 'd have needed me at six he 'd have got me up at five . |
| 21 | He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’ |
| 22 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 23 | That would n't have surprised him at all . |
| 24 | Perhaps the most audacious thing about this exhibition is that the British Museum should have countenanced it at all . |
| 25 | The haciendas , the castles and the oast-houses would not have suited her at all . |
| 26 | I mean , ten years ago , maybe twenty years ago , I would n't have known anyone at all that had been millionaires . |
| 27 | ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That is , if it was a row , not a sparring match that would n't have worried her at all . ’ |
| 29 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 30 | My grandmother may not have delivered you at all . ’ |