Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'm not bringing anyone at all and , as to the seat , I 'll pay for mine as soon as I see you . ’ |
2 | To Ruth , crouching by Gran , he seemed hugely tall ; but he gazed round like a helpless child , seeming not to see them at first . |
3 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |
4 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
5 | The message is that drivers who do n't break their journey , are in serious danger of not completing it at all . |
6 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
7 | He might have been spooning it into his pocket , not eating it at all . |
8 | At least , if the resources in question were printed ones we would not consider it at all acceptable for teachers to be compiling course bibliographies solely from their own publications . |
9 | And to the normal layman that sounds better than not say nothing at all . |
10 | We did not discuss it at all . |
11 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
12 | It was an art which did not excite me at all , but there was no way out . |
13 | I ca n't tell you that this keyboard is the best you 'll ever buy , because its feel may not suit you at all , but if you take that and the monitor aside , and specify totally different units that do suit you , then the system box wo n't let you down . |
14 | ‘ The fact that in saying that you clearly mean to reassure me , ’ said Lydia , ‘ shows that you do not know me at all well . |
15 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
16 | Father Abbot , here is a strange saying , for she came to me when I was not seeking her at all , when I knew nothing of her . |
17 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
18 | My response to these people is , if you can , t do the thing properly , then , please , do not do it at all . |
19 | She would not do it at all . |
20 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
21 | Wycliffe had not seen her at first . |
22 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
23 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
24 | I 've not seen it mummy , I 've not seen it at all . |
25 | Er , very wary of those , really , and we 're not recommending them at all . |
26 | She could not feel anything at all — the anaesthetic having done its job — and she could not see anything as her eyes were tightly closed . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | not hunting them at all ? |
29 | Robert could not understand it at first , but , after he put his ear back to the window , it resolved itself into two syllables : |
30 | They turned him down on ‘ security grounds ’ ; a lot of the Surinamese living in Holland make it plain that they do not like him at all . |