Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] at [det] " in BNC.

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1 In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts .
2 ‘ You 'll hardly have to see her at all , ’ said my mother , voicing her worry tangentially , ‘ in a house that size . ’
3 Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client .
4 Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all .
5 You would n't have expected it at all .
6 Six six contracts all the same print so that if ever we shifted you or wanted you wanted to shift you from estate into to golf or to schools we do n't have to retrain you at all .
7 They could have discharged themselves at any time , but they were destitute and the best was done for them that was possible in the circumstances .
8 But why should he have considered me at all ?
9 On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ .
10 Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment .
11 At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage .
12 ‘ Anna should have said nothing at all .
13 This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all .
14 The umpires might also have noticed something at some point along the line !
15 In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all !
16 You might have felt nothing at all .
17 How happy it would have made her at any other time .
18 Your companion might not have made it at all . ’
19 In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem .
20 He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’
21 I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief .
22 That would n't have surprised him at all .
23 Agreement on this suggestion would bring the meeting to a close , and most of those present would not have to do anything at all about the wretched book .
24 Perhaps the most audacious thing about this exhibition is that the British Museum should have countenanced it at all .
25 Once you have completed your design , you must ensure that you cover it with a sheet of glass should you have to leave it at any time .
26 The haciendas , the castles and the oast-houses would not have suited her at all .
27 I mean , ten years ago , maybe twenty years ago , I would n't have known anyone at all that had been millionaires .
28 ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’
29 ‘ That is , if it was a row , not a sparring match that would n't have worried her at all . ’
30 I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions .
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