Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 3 | Still smiling from her thoughts , she placed her hands on his broad , muscular shoulders , feeling the strength of his hands lifting down her body as if it weighed nothing at all . |
| 4 | Jenna began awkwardly , and he suddenly gave a shout of laughter , vaulting the fence and then reaching to lift her over as if she weighed nothing at all . |
| 5 | He flung the guitar on to a chair , and bent down to pick Shelley up bodily instead , lifting her as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 6 | There seemed nothing at all , no way of climbing back on to the free wheel of conversation they had somehow set going the other night . |
| 7 | There seemed nothing at all like this from what she had observed of Liza 's and John 's relationship . |
| 8 | To the north , the land rose slowly from the marshes to Althorne ridge about a mile and a half inland ; to the south there seemed nothing at all , only a grey-green , indeterminate merging of water , land and sky , beginningless and endless . |
| 9 | At common law , if the court found that the plaintiff was partially to blame for his injuries , he received nothing at all . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Thereafter things improved ; we got several thousand corners while Arse got none at all . |
| 13 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 14 | ‘ I heard nothing at all , it was purely accidental . |
| 15 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 16 | She heard nothing at all . |
| 17 | Although a good 30 per cent of assessments in Kiftsgate hundred were nils , the other hundreds returned none at all . |
| 18 | There was a Puritan austerity about him that made one doubt whether he ever enjoyed anything at all . |
| 19 | There were seven people in our dormitory and I think five were awake ; we all heard the mysterious sounds without any doubt but it appeared that none of the inhabitants of the other dormitories heard anything at all . |
| 20 | And it was n't arbitrary it was where we needed somebody at that time . |
| 21 | ‘ I said pregnancies , because I lost one at four months and another at six months . |
| 22 | The unexpected shock of this letter produced in Coleridge a ‘ waking Night-mair of Spirits ’ , and brought a sudden realization of the true state of his feelings for Sara : he felt nothing at all . |
| 23 | Apart from a superficial , tactile pleasantness , I felt nothing at all . |
| 24 | She felt nothing at all . |
| 25 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 26 | Well , I meant nothing at all , I assure you . |
| 27 | ‘ Love , Leo , ’ meant nothing at all , she tried to convince herself . |
| 28 | He said this with a certain measured diffidence , as though it meant nothing at all to him , and was just a casual observation . |
| 29 | A quick glance at him showed her that he thought nothing at all of a drive like this , clinging to the mountainside and driving much too fast . |
| 30 | Her memoirs formed the inspiration for the film ‘ The King and I ’ , although Thomson 's portraits of the King show that he looked nothing at all like Yul Brynner . |