Example sentences of "about it [prep] all " in BNC.
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1 | But the united nation they had in mind , when they thought hard about it at all , was probably not what they have been landed with . |
2 | If they think about it at all , they think of a mythical golden age when children at school were naturally obedient , and , if not , were forced to learn and to remember what they were told . |
3 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
4 | On the other hand , I did n't have to think about it at all to decide it was flamboyant , asinine pretentiousness . |
5 | There 's nothing linear about it at all ; it 's just about the vibe of the place , the people , the way they live , the way they feel . |
6 | And this young man knows nothing about it at all . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere . |
9 | If you know anything about it at all , now that — If you can tell us anything it might save a young girl 's life . ’ |
10 | However , what is behind Quine 's refusal to admit a prior substantive concept of reality — a corollary of his rejection of the a priori — is that our broadest conception of reality is derived from science ; ‘ science identifies and describes reality ’ and without science we have no way to think or talk about it at all . |
11 | ‘ Do n't concern yourself about it at all , Vitali . |
12 | ‘ I just do n't hear about it at all from the sales force , ’ he said , adding that he 's heard it referred to by some as Windows for Warehouses — ‘ because it sits on shelves . ’ |
13 | Rothermere , indeed , hardly cared about it at all . |
14 | have you thought about it at all ? |
15 | ‘ I would n't have known about it at all , except that Mum sent me a little note to tell me he 'd passed away — in his sleep , she said . |
16 | ‘ There 's nothing naughty about it at all . |
17 | His Jewish mother pretending there was nothing special about it at all , and pouring chicken soup with barley down his throat . |
18 | Then when it " just happens " , spontaneously and romantically , they and their girlfriends hope they do n't get pregnant , or they do n't think about it at all . |
19 | You did n't talk about it at all then ? |
20 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |
21 | If she was going to quarrel about it at all she would have to do it seriously . |
22 | He had thought , insofar as he had thought about it at all , that all prisons must be akin ; that there must be stone cells , barred windows , grilles , gaolers , other prisoners close by . |
23 | ‘ Nobody knows about it at all , ’ said the parson . |
24 | He might keep the bitterness alive in his heart , even if nobody knew or talked about it at all . |
25 | There was nothing horrible about it at all . |
26 | Th that was the , the hard part , there was nothing they could do about it at all . |
27 | But erm it , it , I do n't know , it we ne we never seemed to think anything about it at all . |
28 | Nothing foolish about it at all … |
29 | Well I could n't take I could n't do nowt about it at all so I went to see t head of firm and Aye , he says , it 's bad , he says , we do n't know to do things like that . |
30 | But there was nothing human about it at all now . |