Example sentences of "[vb base] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The expansion of Rome did not , however , cease at this point . |
| 3 | As Macdonald explains , it seems that women are either invisible in most school textbooks or , when they appear at all , they are seen performing low-status tasks . |
| 4 | ‘ It is unfortunate for you that you brazenly appear at all . ’ |
| 5 | In the embryos of most insects evident rudiments of paired abdominal appendages appear at some stage during development . |
| 6 | They appear at any time from mid-summer onwards . |
| 7 | I never once heard her even hint at such a view . |
| 8 | The interruption is so violent that we are led to infer other reasons for such a display besides his annoyance with McKendrick himself and , significantly , Stoppard 's comments hint at this in the words " uncharacteristic " and surprising " . |
| 9 | How does this student 's work measure up to what teachers expect at this stage ? |
| 10 | Many people are struggling to get their hunters fit at this time of the year . |
| 11 | And as you say at that stage it really was just a matter of erm every man for himself really . |
| 12 | In former days this emotional moment could not arise because archbishops had little say in the choice of bishops and no say at all in the choice of their successor . |
| 13 | Sometimes an older child made a deliberate choice to do so , having already got to know them well , but others could find themselves suddenly in a new home with no say at all . |
| 14 | The French government allows the Annamese almost no say at all in running their affairs . |
| 15 | Say at all , I did n't ask . |
| 16 | What you say at such a time is also important . |
| 17 | But as I think people always say at such a time as this , it is n't the way you think it is . ’ |
| 18 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 19 | Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ? |
| 20 | For 13-16lb , cook at that heat for 30 mins then 180C/350F/gas 4 for 3¼-4 hours . |
| 21 | I wish I had a nice coat of feathers — my mac ai n't all that warm , and my straw hat hardly keeps my head warm at all . |
| 22 | hot water bottles are useful for keeping you warm at any time of the day or night . |
| 23 | Hot water bottles are useful for keeping you warm at any time of the day or night . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps I mock the world in general , if I mock at all . |
| 25 | The trees grow at such a rate here that you can hardly even see the sea . ’ |
| 26 | ( Reflectively ) The toenails , on the other hand , never grow at all . |
| 27 | GUIL : ( Bemused ) The toenails on the other never grow at all ? |
| 28 | I watched it grow at each end , slowly , like a negative developing in the reflected light of the zebra . |
| 29 | integrifolia and the heather Cassiope tetragona ; these grow at most only a few centimetres high , forming thin stands that barely cover the ground . |
| 30 | … how comparatively sweet was everything on board … no paint , no tar , no new rope ( vilest of smells to the squeamish ) , no grease or oil or varnish ; but instead of these , bamboo and rattan and choir rope and palm thatch : pure vegetable fibres , which smell pleasantly , if they smell at all , and recall quiet scenes in the green and shady forest . " |