Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd better tell someone at once , ’ said Tim . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 3 | I think we 'd better leave it at that for the moment . |
| 4 | I 've got Mrs and I think we 'd better leave it at that . |
| 5 | It was not everyone who would have relished going off into the dark forest ; Lugh did not relish it at all , in fact . |
| 6 | Many of the delegates were later to become officers , and although Eva did not realise it at the time people in high places were again taking note of her presence . |
| 7 | He was wearing his best suit , which did not fit him at all . |
| 8 | But I was surprised to find that Bessie did not scold me at all . |
| 9 | I did not mean it at all , I thought it was vaguely amusing . |
| 10 | ‘ And , ’ she went on , ‘ I was compelled to end my engagement to Havvie when I discovered that he did not love me at all … merely wanted Papa 's dollars , and , worse , despised us , all of us , for being rich and vulgar Yankees . |
| 11 | She sent for her confessor because she was in mortal sin ; she had withheld from him in confession a sin of which she was ashamed , but because he spoke sharply to her , she did not confess it at all this time either . |
| 12 | The symbolism of this did not strike her at all , as she went back and forth , showering and dressing and rehearsing all the reasons why he was to go . |
| 13 | But the significance of this did not strike him at the moment . |
| 14 | She usually so high and bright , a breezy chatter of her day in class , but now ; her work , the tawse , the first time she had used it , her tearful minute victims , she did not feel herself at all . |
| 15 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 16 | Ceauşescu was happy to meet this condition : for him , as for any true follower of Lenin , a trade union was ‘ a transmission belt of authority ’ ; if the union officials could not get the workers to meet their targets , failed to anticipate strikes , and then did not resolve them at once , what use were they to the regime ? |
| 17 | the Racing Post did not mention him at all in its main preview of the race ; and the official Cheltenham racecard form guide nominated him ‘ more of a candidate for last place than first ’ . |
| 18 | Because she had never known her parents well , she did not miss them at all . |
| 19 | She was almost unconscious and did not recognize him at first . |
| 20 | The male did not bother her at all after spawning , so I was able to leave her in the Mbuna colony until she was ‘ near term ’ — and all the fry were this time normal — all 120+ of them . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ I was in a place once when a man fired a gun at me and I did not like it at all . |
| 22 | She gave the young MacGregor a book on Parliament but he did not read it at the time , and he can not trace his decision to go into politics back to that . |
| 23 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 24 | Some princes did not employ them at all until the second half of the century . |
| 25 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |
| 26 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 27 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
| 28 | We did not discuss it at all . |
| 29 | For some reason this did not surprise him at all . |
| 30 | It did not surprise him at all that the Chairman 's answer should come , hand-delivered , to his villa at four o'clock in the morning , and that the rendezvous would be away from Baghdad . |