Example sentences of "not [vb infin] it [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |
| 2 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 3 | At least , if the resources in question were printed ones we would not consider it at all acceptable for teachers to be compiling course bibliographies solely from their own publications . |
| 4 | We did not discuss it at all . |
| 5 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 6 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
| 7 | My response to these people is , if you can , t do the thing properly , then , please , do not do it at all . |
| 8 | She would not do it at all . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ I was in a place once when a man fired a gun at me and I did not like it at all . |
| 11 | Lots of young couples do not use contraception on their first time , and many do not use it at all . |
| 12 | She sent for her confessor because she was in mortal sin ; she had withheld from him in confession a sin of which she was ashamed , but because he spoke sharply to her , she did not confess it at all this time either . |
| 13 | Sometimes this was easier and cheaper , especially as increasing population could outpace workhouse provision ; sometimes it was because the parish officers discriminated in their application of the " test " and did not apply it to all kinds of claimant . |
| 14 | You can not access it at all , except as the directory file , with SYS$LIFESPAN ( the non-concealed logical ) — SYS$LIFESPAN : [ PMR ] is an illegal syntax , and SYS$LIFESPAN:PMR will only give you access to DUA0 : [ SOFTWARE_LIBRARY ] PMR.DIR , not to DUA0 : [ SOFTWARE_LIBRARY.PMR ] . |
| 15 | I did not mean it at all , I thought it was vaguely amusing . |
| 16 | ‘ Either you support the programme or you amend it , which means you do not support it at all , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive . |
| 18 | It was not everyone who would have relished going off into the dark forest ; Lugh did not relish it at all , in fact . |
| 19 | Now Breeze produced some crackers , which they pulled with much laughter — and when a pink ‘ Glengarry ’ fell to the old man 's share , he did not spurn it after all , but actually put it on ! |
| 20 | Similarly , the newly recruited engineer who six months previously was poring over the computer printout of a great new turbo-jet test run trying to find out why there was a short-fall in the power output will not find it at all easy if his first job is with a little four cylinder piston engine . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't fancy it at all , Captain . ’ |
| 22 | You wo n't need it on all the time will you ? |
| 23 | I mean , does it really bore them ( so that they do n't need it at all in their lives ) or does it secretly shock and dismay them , so that they have to pretend to be bored ? |
| 24 | Good God , yes I know it 's been very , very heavy here too , there were certain areas over here certainly needed a bit of rain , but now there 's certainly did n't need it at all |
| 25 | I do n't know it at all . |
| 26 | Hello do n't know it at all . |
| 27 | If you act a part properly you do n't act it at all ; you are it , and you make it — you . |
| 28 | Otherwise , it seems , we do n't buy it at all . |
| 29 | mean they had to stop eventually , but they would n't buy it at all , no way |
| 30 | But because of the recession , my husband and I could n't afford to pay our mortgage , so I had to go back to work and I do n't enjoy it at all . |