Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] to [pron] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end , he acted as if he 'd said nothing to me at all earlier about being worried , being followed and everything and he turned the conversation round to me and my future . |
| 2 | Er and what the law says is if you change your mind I 'm afraid the law does n't entitle you to anything at all . |
| 3 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 4 | Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future . |
| 5 | Chapter Five argued that the main problem in discussing the peasant question in the reign of Nicholas I is explaining why he addressed himself to it at all , not why he did relatively little . |
| 6 | The main problem in discussing the emancipation may be explaining why Alexander addressed himself to it halfheartedly rather than why he addressed himself to it at all . |
| 7 | His hold on her arm seemed to be doing nothing to him at all . |
| 8 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 9 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 10 | film a , the language meant nothing to me at all ! |
| 11 | It was a heavy leather-bound copy of Don Quixote , dramatically illustrated by a man whose name meant nothing to me at that time , Gustave Doré . |
| 12 | Eileen was dead and it meant nothing to them at all . |
| 13 | It does n't mean anything to me at all . ’ |
| 14 | She should n't mean anything to you at all . ’ |
| 15 | Well if you are then we wo n't ma , you wo n't make it to it at all because I do n't |
| 16 | How last year the crop had meant nothing to him at all ; how , without understanding , he had walked about the harbour and warehouses of Episkopi , and the misuse of the Order 's cargo of sugar had been simply a matter noted and used as a playing-counter . |
| 17 | You shall not use any of the foregoing except in connection with our orders , and you shall maintain the same in good condition and return them to us at any time on demand or otherwise automatically on completion of this order . |
| 18 | On some days Marcus said nothing to him at all , while at the same time making it , without word or gesture , clear that his presence was helpful . |
| 19 | I I do n't think , we had a matron who was extremely strict and I do n't think we would 've dared to say anything to her at all . |
| 20 | Then when we came out we s went around London to see the sights but the decorations but why we went I did n't think anything to them at all this year . |
| 21 | She used to sit behind her desk looking very prim and proper , and er I do n't , I do n't quite honestly think we would 've dared say anything to her at all . |