Example sentences of "it [verb] [indef pn] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It has nothing at all to do with ‘ being pretty ’ . |
| 3 | It has nothing at all to do with the cure of Legion . |
| 4 | He says it has nothing at all to do with underfunding . |
| 5 | The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all . |
| 6 | He said this with a certain measured diffidence , as though it meant nothing at all to him , and was just a casual observation . |
| 7 | If it meant anything at all it probably meant other people thought you were a bit like them . |
| 8 | If it meant anything at all , thought Henry , it was something along the lines of We have n't got a clue . |
| 9 | Now both the West Oxfordshire District Council and the Chipping Norton Parish Council erm voted overwhelmingly against this proposed scheme , and the fact that they 've put these recommendations to the County Council erm can I ask the three County Councillors present erm it means nothing at all from your point of view ? |
| 10 | Not only was it unremarkable and rather battered , it did nothing at all to jog her errant memory . |
| 11 | To be honest it did n't do much to encourage me to live for Jesus and I do n't think it did anything at all for my non-Christian friends . |
| 12 | By far the most intriguing announcement in Wales also carried a competitive element , even if it had nothing at all to do with slow bowlers . |
| 13 | Strictly , this is what is known as the weak cosmic censorship hypothesis : it protects observers who remain outside the black hole from the consequences of the breakdown of predictability that occurs at the singularity , but it does nothing at all for the poor unfortunate astronaut who falls into the hole . |
| 14 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 15 | James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it . |