Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So we left it at that .
2 Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us .
3 So he gets it at four quid but
4 like I imagined it at all .
5 And more and more she met herself at this hour , too late to phone anyone , too weary to sleep .
6 Is the fallacy bound to be present whenever anyone says anything at all of the sort ‘ good is … ’ , meaning to offer a definition ?
7 The hundred shares index closed up nought point one at two eight five two point nine
8 Now I met him at one of the numerous receptions .
9 Now nobody help her at this stage .
10 I think , does n't she ask her at one point about Grace Poole ?
11 ‘ Have n't you seen him at all ? ’
12 ‘ Do n't you know me at all ? ’
13 Are you phoning her now , why do n't you phone her at seven .
14 Why do n't we leave it at that ? ’
15 Ca n't we leave it at that ?
16 Had Nigel noticed she 'd left , or had n't he missed her at all ?
17 Eventually he finds himself at 500 feet , unable to see a good field ahead , unable to remember the wind direction , and trying to select a field with very little choice .
18 And all I could think about was George , about how I had nothing at all left for George now .
19 And so there was er old age pension , state , there was nothing then you know nothing at all .
20 When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it
21 The gradient of a curve is the gradient of tangent , so we can draw a tangent where you wanted it at that place .
22 And it was n't arbitrary it was where we needed somebody at that time .
23 ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it .
24 ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ she said at last , coming to a stop again behind David 's chair , ‘ is why he married me at all and why he … . ’
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