Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
| 2 | All received reduced winter wages with eleven given nothing at all . |
| 3 | But why should he have considered me at all ? |
| 4 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's not a carpenter , dear , he 's an architect , and a highly respected one at that . |
| 7 | In the first pass he had already claimed one at 0938 , Uffz . |
| 8 | He had spent the morning in bed with Rosie , which was why he 'd missed his date down at the docks , she had rung him at ten to eight . |
| 9 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 10 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 11 | A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound . |
| 12 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 13 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 14 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 15 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 16 | back down the road … and further Solar Flair is still going … they 've cracked it at last … and are up to forty five miles an hour … next stop is Adelaide the city that closes its streets to grand prix cars … today … the roads are open and the crowds out to welcome them in … |
| 17 | They could have discharged themselves at any time , but they were destitute and the best was done for them that was possible in the circumstances . |
| 18 | She had n't imagined that this woman could be at all assertive , but she was being exactly that now , and Alain had so far said nothing at all . |
| 19 | ‘ Anna should have said nothing at all . |
| 20 | You might have felt nothing at all . |
| 21 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
| 22 | Bernice had n't seen them at first : their black silk cloaks merged into the darkness beyond the doorway , and only the jerky movements of the red-painted muzzles of their stubby blasters revealed their location . |
| 23 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 24 | Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Unless you offer positive alternatives you do more harm than if you had done nothing at all . |
| 27 | Therefore it is nonsense for the Opposition to claim that we have done nothing at all about the problems of retraining . |
| 28 | Done nothing at all in their house , but since we 've been here in doing this and that , every things been changed now in it ? |
| 29 | You should have phoned me at ten o'clock , I would have picked you up . |
| 30 | that 's I said its at eight thirty five . |