Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’ |
| 2 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 3 | If you want a Rolls Royce , you should n't expect to buy it at Volkswagen prices . ’ |
| 4 | They should n't have left me at school . |
| 5 | ‘ Your daddy should n't have left you at a bus stop in an area where a girl would hear language like that , ’ Rory told her , sternly . |
| 6 | My grandmother may not have delivered you at all . ’ |
| 7 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 8 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 9 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 10 | You 'll still have to join it at the back |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll hardly have to see her at all , ’ said my mother , voicing her worry tangentially , ‘ in a house that size . ’ |
| 12 | The umpires might also have noticed something at some point along the line ! |
| 13 | But he 'd have called the police anyway and they might really have caught us at it . |
| 14 | But she did not like to admit the accidental , for if her birth was the effect of chance , so then was her escape ; the same arbitrary law that had produced her might well have blinded her at the most crucial moments of her life , and left her forever desiring , forever missing , never achieving , an eternal misfit . |
| 15 | For a long time I just could not face wearing them at home . |
| 16 | Postscriptum : I have had Mr. Williams released from prison though I could not wish to see him at present . |
| 17 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 18 | So , you know , tears went out to her , but I 'd also like to thank everybody at Audi who helped me , and also his Grace , the Duke of Marlborough for letting the event take place . |
| 19 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 20 | But Mr Reynolds declared : ‘ Our first priority is to get all parties around the table , and we would not want to do anything at this stage that might hinder the process . |
| 21 | Agreement on this suggestion would bring the meeting to a close , and most of those present would not have to do anything at all about the wretched book . |
| 22 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 23 | The haciendas , the castles and the oast-houses would not have suited her at all . |
| 24 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 25 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |
| 26 | The public would still pay to see them at the cinema . |
| 27 | The Hammers are considering a move for the 31-year-old , but Crosby said : ‘ I would n't consider selling him at the moment . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That is , if it was a row , not a sparring match that would n't have worried her at all . ’ |
| 29 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 30 | That would n't have surprised him at all . |