Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
| 2 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 3 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 4 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 5 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 6 | well it 's , it 's it 's on at one o'clock , one o'clock and er it 's on erm half past six tonight , well I 've taped it at half past six tonight and after everybody 's watched the news I 've , I watched it after , er , you know , so , I watch it then an hour |
| 7 | I 've brought him , I 've brought him at half five , because I was at the bus stop , leaning on the lamp-post and it was about twenty five past , and then he did n't come along to the next stop by and it got to twenty five |
| 8 | On the other hand , I 've got nothing at all against backing the scum.That way , if they lose and the bet does n't come up , you 're still happy anyway because they 've been beaten , and if they are going to win , you might as well make some money out of it . |
| 9 | Not that I 've got anything at all against them getting out and about a bit now , ’ he added hurriedly , not wanting another Grimma on his hands . |
| 10 | There is a violent undercurrent in our society which has got nothing at all to do with football and where football must n't be complacent is to provide the opportunities at its matches to allow that undercurrent of violence to manifest itself . |
| 11 | I do n't like housework particularly — it 's just a bore , it 's so monotonous , and with a child you 've done it once and five minutes later it just does n't look as though you 've done it at all . |
| 12 | ‘ They just put a tick on it if you 've done it at all . |
| 13 | You 've got nothing at all ? |
| 14 | ‘ Now stay where you are , boy , while I test you on your spelling to see if you 've learnt anything at all this past week . |
| 15 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 16 | At school , the few masters who had noticed him at all had tried vaguely to direct him towards science . |
| 17 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 18 | Unless you offer positive alternatives you do more harm than if you had done nothing at all . |
| 19 | I have found that one gets told nothing at all . |
| 20 | We do see the problems we 've seen it at both ends the goalkeepers have when people chase a lost cause like Rozario 's just done there . |
| 21 | We , we 've got the how you can help section here , but we 've got nothing at all about what the charity does and how it does it , yes we need some appropriate words for getting the idea that they 're helping children . |
| 22 | Therefore it is nonsense for the Opposition to claim that we have done nothing at all about the problems of retraining . |
| 23 | Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting . |
| 24 | They were also asked to describe the major characteristics of the groups in which they had found themselves at each point in their time on the terraces . |
| 25 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 26 | Medieval town planners , as many cities further north bear witness , would have provided a more sensible plan if they had provided one at all . |
| 27 | Because Mr has represented him , Mr said before that he he thought it was as duty solicitor that he , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor but , he is represented under legal aid though this defendant by a firm of solicitors in Birmingham and he 's anxious to be committed for trial today . |
| 28 | He , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor . |
| 29 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 30 | But why should he have considered me at all ? |