Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] [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 | The message is that drivers who do n't break their journey , are in serious danger of not completing it at all . |
4 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
5 | He might have been spooning it into his pocket , not eating it at all . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | We did not discuss it at all . |
8 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
9 | It was an art which did not excite me at all , but there was no way out . |
10 | I ca n't tell you that this keyboard is the best you 'll ever buy , because its feel may not suit you at all , but if you take that and the monitor aside , and specify totally different units that do suit you , then the system box wo n't let you down . |
11 | ‘ The fact that in saying that you clearly mean to reassure me , ’ said Lydia , ‘ shows that you do not know me at all well . |
12 | 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 ) . |
13 | Father Abbot , here is a strange saying , for she came to me when I was not seeking her at all , when I knew nothing of her . |
14 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
15 | My response to these people is , if you can , t do the thing properly , then , please , do not do it at all . |
16 | She would not do it at all . |
17 | ‘ 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 . |
18 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
19 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
20 | I 've not seen it mummy , I 've not seen it at all . |
21 | Er , very wary of those , really , and we 're not recommending them at all . |
22 | not hunting them at all ? |
23 | They turned him down on ‘ security grounds ’ ; a lot of the Surinamese living in Holland make it plain that they do not like him at all . |
24 | They were quite convinced that if Jeopardy had not been quite so stunning to look at , most people would not like him at all because he was arrogant and cold . |
25 | He added : ‘ I was in a place once when a man fired a gun at me and I did not like it at all . |
26 | Agnes duly went into labour about lunch-time one hot still day , pouring sweat and Omming to herself while my father boiled lots of water and things and Mrs Clamp dabbed Agnes 's brow and like as not told her of all the women she 'd known who had died in childbirth . |
27 | Some princes did not employ them at all until the second half of the century . |
28 | I do n't like me voice , I 'm not liking it at all and I think that 's what putting me off on taping it and listening to myself after , I do n't , I like , I like |
29 | He did not see her at all as he got out of the car and Jenna had the chance to observe him without the dark eyes pinning her quizzically . |
30 | After that we did not see him at all . |