Example sentences of "to be [adv] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should be able to forgive yourself once you realise that you are not expected to be perfect ; indeed , if you were , you would not need to be here at all — your spirit would be continuing its learning process somewhere else . |
| 2 | There would be unwilling students , who did n't want to be here at all , who had other plans and other dreams , but came to satisfy the wishes of parents . |
| 3 | I 'm not supposed to be here at all . |
| 4 | But I ca n't get rid of the idea that we 've got an extra player … somebody who ought not to be here at all . ’ |
| 5 | as if he suddenly did n't want to be here at all . |
| 6 | ‘ It was not my wish to be here at all , starting with day one ! ’ |
| 7 | Transit time tended to be slower in all three segments of the colon ( right , left , and rectosigmoid colon ) in patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy although the differences reached statistical significance in the right colon only . |
| 8 | Anyway , I hope that Spare Rib always continues to be there for all women , and some of us do appreciate the entertaining , interesting and informative magazine Spare Rib is . |
| 9 | Appropriately enough , in this strange world of not-so-covert agents and hackneyed dramatic devices , it was a secret document that gave the game away : a document that was never meant to be there at all . |
| 10 | Nobody understood , either , how it had come to be there at all . |
| 11 | The sword struck a boulder concealed in the heather concealed , a watcher might have considered , so artfully that a moment before it had not appeared to be there at all . |
| 12 | They stood a little way back from the others as though unsure of their right to be there at all , and they were in bizarre contrast to the rest of the mourners . |
| 13 | A person buying or leasing land had no previous right to be there at all , let alone to trade there , and when he takes possession of that land subject to a negative restrictive covenant he gives up no right or freedom which he previously had . |
| 14 | Mike organized it , for me to go over there and then I did n't need to be there at all , cos noth nobody turned up . |
| 15 | ‘ Our ’ health visitor was not going to be there after all because it was not her turn to do this session . |
| 16 | I know it 's very stupid of me , but I could n't understand what it was supposed to be about at all . |
| 17 | They do not even have to be alike at all beyond some minimum range of conditions which puts them into the same political category . |
| 18 | Being so conditioned to being together at all times , even after some Girls moved out they returned every day to play cards . |