Example sentences of "[vb past] to any " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , and always have been , limits to the amount of resources devoted to any particular technological development . |
| 2 | It merits the longest entry devoted to any one person in Boswell 's account , and no more than two sentences in Johnson 's : the person they met was Flora Macdonald , who had helped Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape after Culloden . |
| 3 | Spiers was trained in the Gothic school , but Bolton , who knew him well , insists that he never referred to any buildings of his own and little is apparently known about his work as an architect . |
| 4 | As originally framed in 1911 , the Bill clearly referred to rights of navigation since it referred to any ‘ way over land or water ’ and to persons ‘ in possession of such land or water ’ . |
| 5 | It enables the Commander to maintain a mental picture of the location of any team , and to think how he would react if an incident occurred to any one of them . |
| 6 | It was some moments before it occurred to any of them that it might well be Chris or the tardy boy from the bistro , harmlessly appealing for admission to his promised evening of jollity and sustenance . |
| 7 | As the table shows , detached , or almost detached , boards were the most common specific defect , affecting more than half ( 59% ) of all items in need of repair , while loose , or almost loose , pages ( 27% ) , heavy soiling ( 20% ) , and apparently acidic paper ( 18% ) were the only other specific defects which occurred to any significant extent . |
| 8 | He appealed to any member of the public who had been in the neighbourhood of the deceased 's home at the critical time to come forward . |
| 9 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 10 | According to Taheri , Britain regarded the hostage-takers as criminals and saw the problem largely in terms of policing , rather than negotiating , which was why British hostages were a low priority and would be bottom of the list when it came to any subsequent releases . |
| 11 | What do you think happened to the letters that came to any house you lived in ? ’ |
| 12 | Nothing seemed to any more . |
| 13 | Once he had settled into the right-back position he was impossible to move from the Palace first team ( unless illness or injury intervened , and the career chart shows that there was only one season when that happened to any serious degree ) , and he appeared there regularly until the 1st World War brought an end to competitive football and threw everyone 's affairs into confusion . |
| 14 | Whether or not this happened to any extent in Britain we can not know , but any hint of it would undoubtedly have started wild rumours , fired by imagination which always accompanies sexual matters . |
| 15 | Hybridization of these same probes to lung sections from untransfected animals served as a negative control against nonspecific hybridization ; neither the human CFTR probe ( g-i ) nor the hisD probe ( j-l ) hybridized to any mRNAs in the lungs of untransfected mice . |
| 16 | Prepmaster is a dedicated SFE system designed for analytical and semipreparative extractions which can be used on-line , directly interfaced to any GC or SFC , or off-line with the new Accutrap cryogenic collection module . |
| 17 | Indeed its members often denied that they belonged to any ‘ group ’ ; they were , they said , primarily friends , with certain family connections , who found some definition ( and their group name ) from the district of London where a number of them lived . |
| 18 | He hardly talked to any , except for the waiters in the hotel at Aix-les-Bains . |
| 19 | Reduced sentences could also be given to those who confessed to any subsequent crimes . |
| 20 | This included £11.5 million as a result of unlawful borrowings by the council and £6.6 million placed on deposit with the bank without regard to limitations placed on sums lent to any single institution . |
| 21 | When I was lately a little kind to you and you carried yourself so foolishly , did I not tell you you should say nothing of what passed to any creature , and yet you made a common talk of the matter ? |
| 22 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 23 | In each year , less than 800 of these cases led to any form of criminal or disciplinary action , and the vast majority of even this small number involved nothing more severe than ‘ advice or admonishment ’ — 651 of the 766 cases in 1987 , for example . |
| 24 | From our study , however , there was no evidence that supplemental oxygen led to any reduction of clinically important cardiac arrhythmias in patients over 60 . |
| 25 | She was so concerned about her unborn baby , she usually over-reacted to any untoward symptom . |
| 26 | Nothing he had been told from the very first moment he had arrived in Perugia amounted to any more than salacious gossip , casual slanders , ill-informed rumours of no real value which elsewhere would never have reached his ears . |
| 27 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 28 | I remember going on tour with an all-male cast and every time we got to any town we used to run and get the paper to see if some show with a chorus was on , because we knew all the guys were gay and all the girls were free . |
| 29 | ‘ I never went to any formal acting school — in fact , I 've probably just been very , very lucky getting all the parts I have — though for as long as I can remember all I ever wanted to be was an actress , and to be in the Theatre . ’ |
| 30 | So you never really went to any fortune teller ? |