Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] at [det] " in BNC.

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1 I ought to write to her at some point .
2 What mystifies me is that any woman could be attracted to you at all .
3 One is that he is rather clean and tidy and polite and fastidious as a person ; the sweatier , wilder , rawer , dirtier areas of human sexuality do not appeal to him at all .
4 I 'm afraid not , Miss Holbrook ; that idea does n't appeal to me at all . ’
5 ‘ I 'm here strictly for business and being dissected does not appeal to me at all .
6 Well , I yes , yes , I does n't appeal to me at all .
7 I never imagined that the business side would appeal to you at all .
8 I do n't object to it at all .
9 It never occurred to me at all .
10 That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage .
11 He comes into close contact with both a teacher and other children of his own age and many of his future feelings about himself will result from what happens to him at this time .
12 ‘ Did you speak to him at all , Delia ? ’
13 Otherwise you 'll , you 'll not speak to him at all cos I shall just pick the phone up and say
14 You ca n't , you ca n't speak to her at all !
15 Well they wan na , do n't matter to me at all I just think they 're dodgy characters .
16 Did it matter to you at that time who it was ?
17 Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence !
18 That way , I would n't have to see you or speak to you at all ! ’
19 When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way .
20 And when one of them did choose her , she found herself quite unable to talk to him at all .
21 I saw him a lot at the Ehukai Beach Park where he was based , but only managed to talk to him at any length at a party in the hills .
22 I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all .
23 I did n't mind , I was happy that he still talked to me at all .
24 Anyway yes , Whit 's going to us at some stage and I will wander round town while he 's doing his talk and then transcribe it
25 I felt the soap operas were raising issues about how you survived and coped in the late eighties that both addressed political issues and also involved me emotionally , whereas nothing about the formal election coverage got to me at all — apart from the Labour Party Political Broadcast , the first one in history to be repeated by popular demand !
26 ‘ You must have thought you merited punishment , for the idea to have occurred to you at all . ’
27 It probably sums up the case and we can discuss it and perhaps add to it at that time .
28 She did n't give one jot about him , kiss or no kiss , and she was going to make that perfectly plain by ensuring that she did n't react to him at all .
29 As Byron put it , ‘ I never loved nor pretended to love her , but a man is a man , and if a girl of 18 comes prancing to you at all hours , there is but one way …
30 From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door .
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