Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no point in having a system which keeps on playing up ; much better not to have one at all . |
| 2 | ‘ The hearing has n't troubled him at all . |
| 3 | It has n't slowed it at all . |
| 4 | It has n't stopped it at all . |
| 5 | Well it 's only recently that she 's started drinking orange juice I know But she has n't liked it at all . |
| 6 | He has n't after all said anything false , because he has n't said anything at all : all he 's done is sigh . |
| 7 | Anyone who thinks youngsters need coaching to catch fish has n't seen them at it . |
| 8 | Oh yeah , the guy that he has n't reduced it at all ! |
| 9 | During the final edit the TV company 's commissioning editor for arts , Waldemar Januszczak decided not to use them at all . |
| 10 | It was not everyone who would have relished going off into the dark forest ; Lugh did not relish it at all , in fact . |
| 11 | Many of the delegates were later to become officers , and although Eva did not realise it at the time people in high places were again taking note of her presence . |
| 12 | He was wearing his best suit , which did not fit him at all . |
| 13 | But I was surprised to find that Bessie did not scold me at all . |
| 14 | I did not mean it at all , I thought it was vaguely amusing . |
| 15 | ‘ And , ’ she went on , ‘ I was compelled to end my engagement to Havvie when I discovered that he did not love me at all … merely wanted Papa 's dollars , and , worse , despised us , all of us , for being rich and vulgar Yankees . |
| 16 | She sent for her confessor because she was in mortal sin ; she had withheld from him in confession a sin of which she was ashamed , but because he spoke sharply to her , she did not confess it at all this time either . |
| 17 | The symbolism of this did not strike her at all , as she went back and forth , showering and dressing and rehearsing all the reasons why he was to go . |
| 18 | But the significance of this did not strike him at the moment . |
| 19 | She usually so high and bright , a breezy chatter of her day in class , but now ; her work , the tawse , the first time she had used it , her tearful minute victims , she did not feel herself at all . |
| 20 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 21 | Ceauşescu was happy to meet this condition : for him , as for any true follower of Lenin , a trade union was ‘ a transmission belt of authority ’ ; if the union officials could not get the workers to meet their targets , failed to anticipate strikes , and then did not resolve them at once , what use were they to the regime ? |
| 22 | the Racing Post did not mention him at all in its main preview of the race ; and the official Cheltenham racecard form guide nominated him ‘ more of a candidate for last place than first ’ . |
| 23 | Because she had never known her parents well , she did not miss them at all . |
| 24 | She was almost unconscious and did not recognize him at first . |
| 25 | The male did not bother her at all after spawning , so I was able to leave her in the Mbuna colony until she was ‘ near term ’ — and all the fry were this time normal — all 120+ of them . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ I was in a place once when a man fired a gun at me and I did not like it at all . |
| 27 | She gave the young MacGregor a book on Parliament but he did not read it at the time , and he can not trace his decision to go into politics back to that . |
| 28 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 29 | Some princes did not employ them at all until the second half of the century . |
| 30 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |