Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admiration has nothing at all to do with — falling in love , that sort of thing . |
| 2 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 3 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | The neo-pagans say this is nonsense , their religion has nothing at all to do with the devil , because the devil is an invention of the Christians . |
| 5 | Indirect Rule and the evolution of the Commonwealth idea had disarmed much left-wing criticism of the empire in the years between the wars and encouraged the development among British radicals of ‘ responsible ’ views on imperial subjects , which came naturally to bloom when Labour found itself at last in office . |
| 6 | Be warned though , it does n't work on all PC speakers — there are one or two in the office that emit a sound of some sort , but so quietly that you need a hearing aid to catch anything at all . |
| 7 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 8 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 9 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 10 | Ron does n't remember this tall , slightly gawky figure approaching him at all . |
| 11 | There 's no reasson to keep it at all . |
| 12 | So , on a board the apparent wind we experience when we travel at 10 knots in a 10 knot cross-wind will be a 14 knot wind hitting us at 45 degrees . |
| 13 | Most coastal features attached at both ends to the coast orientate themselves at right angles to the resultant provided that the fetch is approximately the same in all directions . |
| 14 | ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago . |
| 15 | Shattered after losing his young second wife , he moved to Bath , then in its social heyday , where a benign-looking portrait shows him at seventy , grasping a book entitled Views of Painshill . |
| 16 | Rather than learning that ‘ nothing bad ’ follows a non-reinforced stimulus , the animal might learn that the stimulus predicts nothing at all , that the stimulus is not correlated with another event . |
| 17 | The interpretation of what remains as historical evidence is after all fundamental to the historians craft , but the deliberate preservation of historical source materials in the absence of context ( or worse still the failure to preserve them at all ) surely does little justice to the society in which we live . |
| 18 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 19 | Children play mournfully in heap of setter shit above which washing-line used to hang ( until sodden towel bust it at three a.m. , landing in setter ordure as mentioned ) . |
| 20 | ‘ But in any case , you had no right to leave me at that pub all night . |
| 21 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 22 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 23 | After all if we say , ‘ I did n't appreciate that remark , ’ that tells the world something about us , and we may perceive that it is unwise to let people know that the remark disturbs us at all so we do not share our feelings . |
| 24 | If I start thinking of It as a person , entitled to a dignified end , the next thing will be of course that I have no right to end It at all . |
| 25 | To pick verses at random from the Bible proves nothing at all , except that we are gullible and are not using the Scriptures as we are intended to . |
| 26 | Some candidates may indicate a clear reluctance to commit themselves at this stage and this is helpful in making the final decision about who best to appoint . |
| 27 | If a method of collecting evidence is reliable , it means that anybody else using this method , or the same person using it at another time , would come up with the same results . |
| 28 | Some 64pc of those entitled to Family Credit receive it at any one time . |
| 29 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 30 | Have you had a chance to play it at all ? |