Example sentences of "at [adj] [conj] i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I leave you to erm have a browse at that while I measure the door ? |
| 2 | Oh it 's doing it again it 's doing it again , dear oh yes , doing it again erm I had the plumber up to look at that cos I thought the plumbing was all wrong and he said no he said the plumbing is wrong the waste pipe of the en suite shower and the bath are connected , and they should n't be they should be separate , but they had been connected and that is bad but no , he said , what 's happening is quite simple , he said erm the people using the en suite ca n't control the water it 's going out he said the curtain does n't fit flush against the wall , because the wall leans , you know |
| 3 | Imran , 39 , said he was not very optimistic at the moment because the injury ‘ has not improved at all since I played the World Cup final ’ . |
| 4 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
| 5 | Did he also mention at all that I won a national award recently for five years sustained voluntary input to the educational and professional development committee and activities of a professional body — the Assoc'n of Industrial Editors . |
| 6 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 7 | But when I went to university , I did n't bother at all until I encountered a girl who I got the impression would be immensely impressed if I could speak . |
| 8 | She is frightened of some noises — like the vacuum cleaner — but does n't bother at all when I use the lawnmower or hedge-cutter . |
| 9 | I noticed that even the adults showed no ill effects at all when I moved the odd battered brother or post-spawning female to recoup in a low pH growing-on tank . |