Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [pron] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know why I bother with you at all . |
| 2 | If anything — if I agree with you at all — that is surely why a war is necessary ? |
| 3 | That 's what I think of him when I think of him at all . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Nobody knows about it at all , ’ said the parson . |
| 5 | Never once had she referred to it at all . |
| 6 | Did n't you think of Him at all ? ’ |
| 7 | I include them here to encourage you to write about anything at all . |
| 8 | ‘ Did you speak to him at all , Delia ? ’ |
| 9 | If she believed in anything at all then it was that . |
| 10 | Do you believe in them at all ? |
| 11 | have you thought about it at all ? |
| 12 | Did you hear from her at all after you left Naples ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Do you hear from her at all ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you wonder about him at all ? |
| 15 | But whatever she was up to — and it was something — she spent days ticking and marking the party guest list , a thick , creamy piece of paper she kept with her at all times . |
| 16 | Did she talk about herself at all ? |
| 17 | Nothing to do with me at all . |
| 18 | and they put an article in saying , it 's got nothing to do with it at all ! |
| 19 | The generations of this century will , in their turn , hand on to the next generation the archaic unconscious problems , unless the guilt becomes too strong , the rebellion so great , the need to kill and be killed so overwhelming that we hand on nothing at all . |
| 20 | It was a relief when others came , others who took no notice of her but , if they thought of her at all , must think her as seasoned a traveller as they . |
| 21 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Gallup ( in the UK ) and Starch ( in the USA ) used to run so-called ‘ reading and noting ’ surveys regularly , in which readers of a magazine are taken through the last issue and questioned about every page — whether they looked at it at all ; read some of it ; read all of it ; etc . |
| 24 | Our constituents look to us to obtain redress ; if the only satisfaction that we can give them is to say that the matter is out of our hands , it will not be long before they begin to wonder why they voted for us at all . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Did they come to you at all ? |
| 27 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 28 | I wonder if it counts for anything at all when it comes to expressing more profound thought . |
| 29 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 30 | What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone . |