Example sentences of "at [adv] [pron] did [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least they did n't stand there looking stupid : at least they had the decency to look shocked and horrified . |
| 2 | But at least they did n't need to worry about any area that came under Michael Stein 's remit . |
| 3 | Or at least they did n't want to be there long enough . |
| 4 | Maxim had a torch which he used very cautiously , but at least they did n't have to whisper in the steady drone of rain . |
| 5 | Screen Antics Windows screen savers do n't generally stop people from working , at least they did n't before Johnny Castaway came along ! |
| 6 | But at least they did n't go around with beatific smiles mumbling about peace and goodwill . ’ |
| 7 | A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee . |
| 8 | At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path . |
| 9 | At least they did so until the local priest warned them that if they did not stop , he 'd say a prayer that would make the dead rise from their graves and walk the length and breadth of the islands . |
| 10 | At least we did not get the goose . |
| 11 | ‘ Team spirit reached an all time low on this one , but at least we did n't come to blows , ’ added Chris . |
| 12 | he did n't really like it , but he had a lovely week , but at least we did n't come back to a house that 's full of |
| 13 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 14 | At least he did n't have any reverse thrust left , just a bucketful of drag . |
| 15 | He was a novice golfer but at least he did n't talk much , and had an innate respect for a fellow professional sportsman . |
| 16 | But at least he did n't spot that until he 'd got me on the committee . ’ |
| 17 | Well , at least he did n't hit me . |
| 18 | ‘ At least he did n't ask us if we 'd slept together . ’ |
| 19 | But at least he did n't get you pregnant . |
| 20 | He seems to have recognized — at least he did not dissent from the view — that so far as England was concerned , the choice lay with the king . |
| 21 | Those who took an interest in Clara might have seen in his death the loss of an ally , because outwardly at least he appeared to be more intelligent than his wife ; at least he did not scorn in public , as she did , all efforts of the mind , and all the aims of education . |
| 22 | At least she did n't gossip , I 'll give her that . |
| 23 | But at least she did n't look starving or thin . |
| 24 | At least she did n't ask why I kept my curtains closed in the daytime . |
| 25 | At least she did n't think so ; she used to scold Constanza for saying they were rich , when of course they were for Italy . |
| 26 | She tore it open in a frenzy ; she would go home , at once , tomorrow , at least she was appreciated there , well anyway by her father , at least she did n't make a fool of herself — ; |
| 27 | But she did n't respond — at least she did n't do that ! — or only a little bit , only the very smallest bit , because it was so very sweet , so very exciting , so very much what she had always hoped a kiss might be , and if he believed it was what she wanted , why not let him think so ? |
| 28 | Jessica admitted freely that she was a cottage-dweller , one of the idle rich that cluttered up the streets and strands of Donegal from May to September , but at least she did n't drive a gas-guzzling BMW like some she could mention . |
| 29 | But at least she did not squint and his cast seemed more noticeable than ever in the morning , as if sleeping refreshed it . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're a bit young for getting sons , Gabriel , ’ she said , but at least she did not laugh . |