Example sentences of "at [pron] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | I handed her the drink and she smiled at me with all her splendid teeth and said , " Thank you . |
| 2 | He was not looking at me at all . |
| 3 | In fact he had not bothered to look at me at all . |
| 4 | Sometimes one or other would roam round the room picking things up , examining them and putting them down again ; or looking with unfocused eyes at nothing at all . |
| 5 | You 'll have to have a go at them with all these rabbits ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When you have worked through the sensations , looked at them from all angles and asked yourself why they have entered your life and what is to be gained from them , it is important to be able to let them go . |
| 8 | Looking up at you with all that trust . |
| 9 | Mind , I hardly know how to get a proper look at you in all this fog . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Come and say goodbye , ’ he urged , tugging at her with all his might . |
| 11 | Suddenly a tall , broad-shouldered man was standing in her path , arms extended , glowering down at her with all the wrath of hell . |
| 12 | I did n't look at her at all , just watched the two loafers . |
| 13 | After that , he did n't look at her at all . |
| 14 | He was n't looking at her at all when he said this . |
| 15 | And she realized that the anger had not been directed at her at all . |
| 16 | He had only to look at her for all her firmly made resolutions to begin to melt away . |
| 17 | Ruth looked at her after all . |
| 18 | Diamonds , emeralds , rubies and sapphires as well as a mixture of semi-precious stones glinted and sparkled at her from all directions . |
| 19 | How on earth could he tell ? she wondered , hunched against the banshee howling that came at her from all directions , hurling rain against her skin with such force it stung like grit . |
| 20 | The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions . |
| 21 | I sat forward and stared back at him with all the strength of my pioneering ancestors . |
| 22 | Ludo swung his club at him with all that strength he hardly knows he possesses . |
| 23 | They kept nagging at him about all that space he had and how she 'd got nowhere and her dad would n't have her back and her with a baby inside her . |
| 24 | Politicians are slinging arrows at him from all sides . |
| 25 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 26 | But then you hear a traveller at the railway station , prepared as a medieval knight , daysack on his front , chickenwire behind , was hit by five fat women , coming at him from all directions . |
| 27 | The idea was to sit the listener in the middle of a square array of loudspeakers , so sound would come at him from all corners — despite the fact that most live performances of music take place in front of the listener . |
| 28 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |
| 29 | Or would you eat the chocolate very quickly without thinking or even looking much at it at all ? |
| 30 | M. B. On Dock Duty , you 'd stand all night and not see a soul and the Liver Building up there with the clock gradually going round and you 'd think : ‘ I wo n't look at it , I wo n't look at it at all . ’ |