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

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1 And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret .
2 When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all .
3 ‘ Now that I have you at last you 'll never be away from me again . ’
4 I consider that she would have found a job by early Autumn and therefore the sum must be more than a , nearly a year 's earnings and I assess it at eight thousand pounds .
5 As for his invitation — if I catch you at 1997 with him or any other man , I 'll revoke my decision about the wedding night , and take you to bed immediately ! ’
6 Wing Commander the Duke of Hamilton replied : ‘ My instructions are to let it run its course as if I know nothing at all about it .
7 If I snatch your hat from your head with intent to steal it , that is conversion as well as trespass , but if I throw it at another person , that is trespass only , for I am not questioning your title to it .
8 I make my living out of explaining things to a lot of dum-dums , and if I do it at all I expect to get paid . ’
9 If I do it at half the speed , just do it at thirty miles an hour , how long will that take ?
10 If I do it at half the speed .
11 Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ?
12 But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai .
13 But I left it at that .
14 But I have nothing at all to complain about .
15 However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years .
16 ‘ I said pregnancies , because I lost one at four months and another at six months .
17 My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) .
18 Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " .
19 ‘ You know as well as I that both Benedict and Araminta have every moral right to enjoy whatever she had , while I have none at all . ’
20 But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing .
21 And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME .
22 Was there no traffic on the Leeds LISTSERV during the weekend , as I received nothing at all about our glorious or not so glorious win , whichever newpaper you bothered to buy at the weekend .
23 It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature .
24 It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle …
25 It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle …
26 CHARLES : Well , frankly , the problem as I see it At this moment in time is whether I Should just lie down under all this hassle And let them walk all over me , Or , whether I should just say : ‘ OK , I get the message ’ , and do myself in .
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