Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 2 | Still smiling from her thoughts , she placed her hands on his broad , muscular shoulders , feeling the strength of his hands lifting down her body as if it weighed nothing at all . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's now coming up for its 12,000 mile service , and does n't feel as though it needs it at all . |
| 4 | It has nothing at all to do with ‘ being pretty ’ . |
| 5 | It has nothing at all to do with the cure of Legion . |
| 6 | He says it has nothing at all to do with underfunding . |
| 7 | The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all . |
| 8 | So , from the dominant parliamentary perspective the Left takes the British constitution for granted as a good thing , and from the insurrectionary perspective the Left sees the British constitution ( if it sees it at all ) as beyond the pale of reasoned consideration and change . |
| 9 | He said , ‘ If it reassures you at all , I 'm not Drugs Squad and I 'm not Special Branch . |
| 10 | To hell with it , I 'll go down fighting , it will break me on my terms if it breaks me at all . |
| 11 | He said this with a certain measured diffidence , as though it meant nothing at all to him , and was just a casual observation . |
| 12 | If it meant anything at all it probably meant other people thought you were a bit like them . |
| 13 | If it meant anything at all , thought Henry , it was something along the lines of We have n't got a clue . |
| 14 | I mean er does it bother you at all that well I mean are most of the men managers ? |
| 15 | Now both the West Oxfordshire District Council and the Chipping Norton Parish Council erm voted overwhelmingly against this proposed scheme , and the fact that they 've put these recommendations to the County Council erm can I ask the three County Councillors present erm it means nothing at all from your point of view ? |
| 16 | Not only was it unremarkable and rather battered , it did nothing at all to jog her errant memory . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Now does that have a er I , I know you lose the income but does it , does it penalize you at all ? |
| 19 | By far the most intriguing announcement in Wales also carried a competitive element , even if it had nothing at all to do with slow bowlers . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 22 | James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it . |