Example sentences of "have [vb pp] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he explained : ‘ It was not a play that should have toured at all . |
| 2 | In fact , the clothes Yuri had worn to our shoot — an American jacket and trousers with a grey shirt and fur-lined black trainers — would n't have looked at all of place on the dance floor of Stringfellows , but Yuri was after a smoother image . |
| 3 | As Gandalf points out , all Sauron and Saruman and the orcs have done between them is ‘ bring Pippin and Merry with marvellous speed , and in the nick of time , to Fangorn , where otherwise they would never have come at all ! ’ — and so , one might say , though it is beyond Gandalf 's knowledge at the time , to rouse the Ents , overthrow Saruman , save Rohan , and free Théoden to make his decisive intervention at Minas Tirith . |
| 4 | ‘ Or perhaps I should n't have come at all . |
| 5 | ‘ We should not have come at all . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 7 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |
| 8 | Had he been an ordinary shop assistant it would not have done at all . |
| 9 | Esther , Liz and Alix , who in Jane Austen 's day would never have met at all , met in Cambridge in 1952 . |
| 10 | It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all . |
| 11 | If not , he would never have written at all . |
| 12 | I can understand Leeds fans expressing frustration at the defensive errors going on , especially after Norwich , but the continual barracking Lukic and Newsome got from some ca n't have helped at all . |
| 13 | If the whole business had not been impossibly difficult , she wondered if she would have bothered at all . |
| 14 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
| 15 | The Parish Council have asked me to express their grave concern that such an incident could have occurred at all . |
| 16 | If she had really been as indifferent as she had pretended to be , then she would n't have reacted at all . |
| 17 | But without Bristol 's research , and Martin Pipe 's attention , he might never have started at all . |
| 18 | ‘ Julie would n't have resisted at all . |
| 19 | Nor can it explain why indeed the change should have happened at all : why did the speakers not simply retain /a:/ ? |
| 20 | Some may have taken part-time jobs so that they could cope with the increasing demands at home , some may never have worked at all outside the home . |
| 21 | The most successful perhaps were those acquired as teacher training colleges , such as Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse which , without such use , might not have survived at all . |
| 22 | Animals such as mussels would not be spread so liberally around the world — indeed they could not have evolved at all — unless they had a phase as mobile plankton . |
| 23 | When times were good , men married earlier and some were able to marry who otherwise could not have married at all — and vice versa . |