Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many a woman who considers herself kind , compassionate and unselfish has been horrified to catch a glimpse of something underlying that , something which is determined to catch and hold a person , which can be jealous and possessive and cares nothing at all for the claims of others . |
| 2 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 3 | They begin to assume that their ageing parents are never satisfied , and may eventually conclude that it might be better to do nothing at all for them . |
| 4 | I think we 'd better leave it at that for the moment . |
| 5 | Erm we 'll leave it at that for the time being . |
| 6 | ‘ All right , we 'll leave it at that for the moment , but I may have to see you again . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I think we 'll leave it at that for now . ’ |
| 8 | I think I 'll leave it at that for the moment . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll leave it at that for the moment but I may have to ask you that question again . |
| 10 | Okay , we 'll leave it at that for the moment . |
| 11 | Erm , I think I 'll leave it at that for this moment in time and er if I may speak at at the end . |
| 12 | Alec took it at first for a whale . |
| 13 | Ladbrokes quote her at 40–1 for the first Classic of 1994 . |
| 14 | To be honest it did n't do much to encourage me to live for Jesus and I do n't think it did anything at all for my non-Christian friends . |
| 15 | Strictly , this is what is known as the weak cosmic censorship hypothesis : it protects observers who remain outside the black hole from the consequences of the breakdown of predictability that occurs at the singularity , but it does nothing at all for the poor unfortunate astronaut who falls into the hole . |
| 16 | It wo n't affect us at all for the eighteenth . |