Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [pers pn] at " in BNC.

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1 Paul found that he could not stay with her at present ; he excused himself , got up from the table , fetched his hat and a stout stick , and went out into the day .
2 ‘ In truth , ’ Suragai said , ‘ I did not think of you at all .
3 — or does not think of you at all .
4 When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all .
5 So when his interest in the affair peters out and he 'd rather not bump into you at the photocopier on a daily basis , it 's you who 'll be left with a P45 and a broken heart .
6 ‘ I 'm here strictly for business and being dissected does not appeal to me at all .
7 One is that he is rather clean and tidy and polite and fastidious as a person ; the sweatier , wilder , rawer , dirtier areas of human sexuality do not appeal to him at all .
8 He was not looking at me at all .
9 Suppose that my friend was not looking for me at all .
10 Not looking for you at all .
11 Otherwise you 'll , you 'll not speak to him at all cos I shall just pick the phone up and say
12 He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all .
13 She kept her eyes lowered to make sure that she did not look at me at this moment , at my own quite irrelevant scars .
14 If your grandmother 's not waiting for us at a hotel , then where — ? ’
15 If businessmen regard the increase in demand as temporary , they may not respond to it at all : this will be the case if they are generally pessimistic about the future level of economic activity .
16 Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably .
17 It 's just er a small section of foot of a footnote which gives an account of the history of the clause in er of the section in the er Police Act of nineteen sixty four with which we are dealing and of course Your Lordships will be well aware that we moved on from Section er from the Sections of the Police Act , we 're not dealing with them at all , we 're dealing with what has happened to those Clauses since and I thought perhaps Your Lordship might Your Lordships might be interested in the sort of guidance which is made available th so , so fortunately to us and so that we can have our minds very clearly focused upon the issues .
18 You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all .
19 But mostly I try not to think about him at all .
20 Can not you see him as well as myself ; Is he not sitting behind me at the bed 's head , to seize upon me for his victim , as soon as I have breathed my last ? ’
21 The fact is that , in an age when players were never encouraged or expected to be adaptable , the only positions that Billy did not fill for us at one time or another were those of goalkeeper , centre-forward and centre-half .
22 National interest did not come into it at all .
23 Logic does not come into it at all .
24 Sometimes she wished Will would not write to her at all , if he would send no messages to Daniel .
25 If you have a query about anything concerning the outdoor world why not write to us at Outdoor Action ?
26 Superstitiously , perhaps , protectively more like , he did not care to explain it or examine it much and he would not interfere with it at all .
27 Even if the quarrel is not started by you at all , you will be less able to cope and respond appropriately if you are already slightly under the weather .
28 And Sunderland manager Malcolm Crosby said : ‘ If Anton plays for Northern Ireland on Tuesday he will not play for us at Blackburn the next night . ’
29 Irene Pitt had her lunch with Christopher , saw that he was deeply preoccupied with his election chances , not thinking about her at all , and wondered if she was going to enjoy being married to a politician .
30 It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all .
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