Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ They just put a tick on it if you 've done it at all . |
| 12 | You 've got nothing at all ? |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Unless you offer positive alternatives you do more harm than if you had done nothing at all . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Therefore it is nonsense for the Opposition to claim that we have done nothing at all about the problems of retraining . |
| 20 | Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Medieval town planners , as many cities further north bear witness , would have provided a more sensible plan if they had provided one at all . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor . |
| 26 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 27 | But why should he have considered me at all ? |
| 28 | Until now it had meant nothing at all , but now she really knew what it meant . |
| 29 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 30 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |