Example sentences of "[verb] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Music for entertainment … seems to complement the reduction of people to silence , the dying out of speech as expression , the inability to communicate at all . |
| 2 | The ability to communicate at all levels , and to retain the confidence of your clients is vital ; you have to work with each other , so this confidence must exist and must override any personality clashes . |
| 3 | In the reptilian heart most of the blood gets round the body on the first circuit , but with the four-chambered heart — in mammals , birds and ( imperfectly ) in crocodiles — the blood from the two circuits is not mixed at all . |
| 4 | After the third day of REM sleep deprivation little sleep at all was being achieved , and the symptoms that the subjects showed were a combination of the effects of total sleep deprivation and suggestion . |
| 5 | No need for you to worry at all . ’ |
| 6 | But I spoke with Mr about half an hour ago on the telephone , told him not to worry at all , that |
| 7 | When I look upon the wall of my room , the wall does not act at all , nor is capable of acting ; the perceiving is an act or operation in me . |
| 8 | He really can not act at all . |
| 9 | In Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin : ( Through this fabliau you may know that he does not act at all wisely who trusts his wife rather than himself : often he suffers shame and grief . ) |
| 10 | Basically , however , the difference between these and other areas lies in the attitude to new development , either whether it should be permitted at all ( it often is not ) or , if it is , of what it should be constructed — the materials used generally have to be traditional , for example , stone in the Lake District . |
| 11 | This is appropriate and necessary on major roads if traffic is to be permitted at all . |
| 12 | Alner won on Ponteus Pilot , Lough Guitane and Seven of Diamonds , who has now won at all three meetings at Badbury Rings this season . |
| 13 | When people did not use a form of credit they had considered , usually it was because they either did not buy at all , or paid cash instead . |
| 14 | As a result of this , it is now possible to leave a natural history museum knowing that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height , and that elephants can not jump at all , and that as many as a thousand dead ants have been found inside the stomach of a single mole . |
| 15 | — Can you ? — Yes , because buildings ca n't jump at all . |
| 16 | Thus : ‘ ABOUT NECHAEV [ Peter Verkhovensky ] : NECHAEV PLAYS TWO ROLES , THE SECOND OF WHICH I , THE CHRONICLER , DO N'T KNOW AT ALL AND AM NOT PRESENTING . ’ |
| 17 | Some she knew to speak to , others she did n't know at all . |
| 18 | [ The ] new languages provided only very modest space for parody : these languages hardly know , and now do not know at all , sacred words , since they themselves were born to a significant extent out of a parody of the sacred word . |
| 19 | It was a county he was n't familiar with , and Granard he did n't know at all . |
| 20 | They need all the help they can get in following a language they do n't know at all well . |
| 21 | ‘ You mean , you do n't really know at all ? ’ |
| 22 | It 's only because I know Rome quite well that they 've asked me — Athens I do n't know at all . ’ |
| 23 | The porter was tipped , Alain was in the driving seat , and she was being swept away by a complete stranger to a house she did n't know at all , far away from anyone who would help her . |
| 24 | There were amused smiles , but they did not know at all why Alain had done that . |
| 25 | I did n't know at all . ’ |
| 26 | They were , he said , ‘ cultural orphans ’ , and ‘ the children just did not know at all how to keep a house clean . |
| 27 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 28 | but I mean they were n't you know and I mean someone we did n't even know at all , so er you know all erm but I mean Lionel sat with the guy that organized it and the bus driver so he did n't feel out of it , you know , |
| 29 | some proverbs , I ca n't think can you complete these proverbs good book up there for that I do n't know at all , there 's something wrong Ooh this looks really good got look at this book , all the streets it 's got like The House of Commons and The House of Lords |
| 30 | I do n't know at all . |