Example sentences of "to [pron] at [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Eileen was dead and it meant nothing to them at all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There are fewer generally accepted criteria about what environmental adaptations are necessary or desirable for pupils with problems in seeing and some debate as to whether any special attention needs to be given to them at all . |
| 4 | The Fat Controller addressed me over the sounds of her orgasm , paying no attention to them at all . |
| 5 | The reason is obvious to you but may not be so to them at all . |
| 6 | The Minister is aware that those who work for 16 hours or less do not have the right to itemised pay statements unless they have worked for five years and that those who work less than eight hours have no right to them at all . |
| 7 | Many of our users are social historians , and we offer support to them at all stages . |
| 8 | Get up at two , I do n't think got much mention to them at all from what I was |
| 9 | Then when we came out we s went around London to see the sights but the decorations but why we went I did n't think anything to them at all this year . |
| 10 | Now I personally believe that most erm policy makers in Britain , and indeed in most other industrial countries , do n't really believe the Third World matters to them at all . |
| 11 | How did you get word to them at that day ? |
| 12 | And our comment to them at that particular stage was , ‘ Well , if that 's the case that 's the case . |
| 13 | The Personnel Department is involved in the formulation and implementation of policies governing the organisation 's dealings with its existing and potential employees Here , too , microcomputers can make a valuable contribution They place in the hands of managers a powerful analytical tool which is available to them at any time . |
| 14 | The justification of the invaders , based partly on the doubtful assumption that proximity gave sovereign rights , but more specifically on the claim that the islands had belonged to them at some time in the past , bears comparison with the Zionist claim to Palestine . |
| 15 | I thought you would be interested to see some of the questions raised by Members so far , and I am enclosing these and the responses to them at this current stage of our thinking . |
| 16 | Thank the Lord for his faithfulness to them at this time . |
| 17 | The trouble with anonymous contributions to this page , not that I 'm not grateful for anything I can get , is that the people who send them ca n't get a lovely Community Care mug whereas those like Nicholas Holbrook , ( see below ) who refuse to hide their creative light under a bushel , have a mug winging its way to them at this very moment . |
| 18 | Most children learn about epilepsy when they first see their parent having a seizure , and it is vital the condition is fully explained to them at this time . |
| 19 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 20 | Darwin 's concept of evolution may hold water as far as it goes , but without the inclusion of an omnipotent ‘ Master Mind ’ , working from outside to plan the possibility of purposeful development , it makes no sense to me at all . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | ‘ And , anyway , he 's been absolutely no trouble to me at all . |
| 23 | The idea of a school in itself is basically of no interest to me at all . |
| 24 | That is of no interest to me at all ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Oxford was a complete disappointment — not snobby , it really is n't snobby — it did n't make any sense to me at all . |
| 26 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 27 | It never occurred to me at all . |
| 28 | By the end , he acted as if he 'd said nothing to me at all earlier about being worried , being followed and everything and he turned the conversation round to me and my future . |
| 29 | ‘ If you 're going to be of any use to me at all , the work has to start now . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm afraid not , Miss Holbrook ; that idea does n't appeal to me at all . ’ |