Example sentences of "[to-vb] it at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 2 | Some people discover this element of themselves while still very young ; others come to it at a much later stage in their lives — and others never manage to find it at all . |
| 3 | I 'd like tomorrow to be the happiest day of her life , with nothing to mar it at all . |
| 4 | we 're not , like , intending to sell it at all but |
| 5 | I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children . |
| 6 | Clearly , if I 'm to give my loved one a spade for Christmas , the answer is not to wrap it at all . |
| 7 | So you want to avoid it at all costs in release three of four . |
| 8 | Have you had a chance to play it at all ? |
| 9 | This care is not necessarily unsafe or ineffective , but we should always ask whether there is a more effective method , and in some cases , whether we need to do it at all . |
| 10 | We 're not going to do it at all if the King loses interest too early . ’ |
| 11 | The constraint for social workers wanting to do family work with elderly clients is to be allowed the time to do it at all . |
| 12 | Ah so you do n't know how to do it at all then , right . |
| 13 | I think it 's unscientific , prejudicial and subjective to use it in a term that carries any kind of recommendation or erm disapprobation and er I think , I think one has to exercise caution in erm in the way you use tha tha that , that term , perhaps it 's better not to , not to use it at all . |
| 14 | Three years after its publication , less than half of Solihull 's secondary school teachers claim to have seen the booklet , and a much smaller proportion claim to have read it all , or to recall it at all well . |
| 15 | It is best not to build it at all but to imagine how it would work . |
| 16 | ’ It took quite a lot of resolution to utter it at all . |
| 17 | There 's no reasson to keep it at all . |
| 18 | Positivist criminology , on the other hand , seemed scarcely to recognise it at all . |
| 19 | I knew my wife did n't want to see it at all . |
| 20 | Local councillor Eddie McEvilly said : ‘ I do n't really want to talk about conditions on the operation , because I do n't want to see it at all . ’ |
| 21 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 22 | Gloxinias do n't seem to like it at all , but that 's been my only failure . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , and he told her she should have the amnio in the next week if she 's going to have it at all . |
| 24 | The tremendous variation in the experiences of First , Second and Third World countries in terms of income , population , foreign trade , resources , quality of life and blocs might lead the faint-hearted to conclude that the global system either does not exist or that it is so hopelessly complex that there is no point in trying to conceptualize it at all . |
| 25 | If I start thinking of It as a person , entitled to a dignified end , the next thing will be of course that I have no right to end It at all . |
| 26 | THE CASE of the diabetic who took insulin for 52 years , only to turn out not to need it at all , is bemusing doctors . |
| 27 | If the tone was a little condescending she did not complain ; it was startling enough that he had brought himself to say it at all , and so he must have felt , for he coloured to the brows . |
| 28 | She had the feeling that he was n't going to take it at all well and , like the Taurean bull that he was , he was highly dangerous when aroused . |
| 29 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 30 | So you do n't you do n't want them to move it at all ? |