Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] at " in BNC.

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1 From time to time , national spin doctors — or ‘ medecins du spin ’ , as we say around here — would emerge to say something or nothing at inordinate and chauvinistic length .
2 If you have chosen bread to make up sandwiches , use only the thinnest scrape of fat ( preferably a polyunsaturated margarine or nothing at all ) .
3 Collectively , the population of Britain perform millions of acts every day during their waking hours , yet the net result of all this is not chaos and confusion , but a reasonable approximation of order : motorists drive on the left-hand side of the road , not on the right ; shoppers offer coins and banknotes , cheques and cheque cards in exchange for goods and services , not goats and chickens or nothing at all ; love-making takes place indoors in bedrooms , and not outside on the pavement .
4 The best time to do this is first thing in the morning , after going to the bathroom , wearing your night clothes or nothing at all , but keep it the same every day .
5 ‘ Now it 's a Brahmin , or nothing at all — which would be simpler . ’
6 We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all .
7 Did it mean something , or nothing at all ?
8 Or nothing at all ?
9 It 's either all or nothing at all down there .
10 When he is truly King , he will find other favourites , and no reason to keep you or me at his side .
11 Only one in ten said that it had been suggested to them by a salesman , agent or someone at the shop ; about three-quarters said instead that they personally had thought of it , and most of the rest that it had been suggested by their wife or husband .
12 Now that I 'm famous , whenever I speak to my family , all they want is a signed photo for Enid or Ethel or someone at the office .
13 The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level .
14 He will examine more confidently his own intuition and hope , that there is Something or Somebody at work behind the scenes in all religions .
15 Sometimes , indeed , we identify with another instead of seeing ourselves as independent autonomous subjects , we identify with Lady Diana , our headmistress or somebody at work .
16 erm , there 's holes or summat at side for er central heating
17 7.4 Whenever any sum of money is recoverable from or payable by you to us as a result of the operation of any of these conditions or any breach by you of the same , such sum may be deducted by us from any sum then due or which at any time thereafter may become due to you under any other order or transaction placed or entered into by us with you .
18 Cheaper bags often have small thin baffles which can flatten away from the zip or none at all .
19 It can be applied to all kinds of objective situations or none at all .
20 He said the bill would end the situation where an employer had to dismiss either all the strikers or none at all .
21 If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety .
22 What is needed is either full co-ordination , or none at all , with countries concentrating on their domestic needs .
23 It was so pitifully easy for the customers : the temptation so hard to resist , to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter , a packet of tea from the shelf , even a bag of flour , as my aunt came from behind the counter , passed through to the kitchen , down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask , or paraffin from the tank ( its pump rattling up-down , up-down ) , or across the yard for corn or toppings , or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing ; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all .
24 I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) .
25 What of those stuck with a 10-year guarantee , or none at all ?
26 The Ingleton glens would be as sweet by any name , or none at all .
27 In this paper he pointed out that the problem was not to explain why his thin fibres were strong , since a single chain of atoms must , inescapably , have either the theoretical strength or none at all , but rather to explain why the thicker fibres were weak .
28 Some have handles without mounts , or none at all .
29 You may accept this choice , make another selection — or none at all if you prefer .
30 If , by mating with more than one male , the female could persuade the males to help rear the young , then she would ensure a better chance of survival for her offspring than if she had only one helper or none at all .
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