Example sentences of "[conj] anyone could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She telephoned offering to help when my wife was ill and when I said there was nothing she or anyone could do , she did n't keep fussing . |
| 2 | There was no more he or anyone could do . |
| 3 | Where the water 's stuck and it keeps coming down and it 's getting quite wide where anyone could slip in . |
| 4 | She remembered how Adam , seven years old and already stronger-willed than anyone could cope with , had furiously affirmed that Jake would come back . |
| 5 | They squat on ragged patches of grass like abandoned containers , painted bright colours , stuffed with more than anyone could want of Do-It-Yourself Equipment , Garden Furniture or , in one case , pure Leather . |
| 6 | At that point life changed more than anyone could have foreseen . |
| 7 | The main criticisms levelled by the 1950s critics — the inadequacy of their public relations and the remoteness of the court — have been tackled , more effectively than anyone could have predicted . |
| 8 | But they 're still alive and spitting , and here then is the third album from a band who have found themselves paddle-less up more creeks than they 'd care to count and have emerged from their sojourn in the wilderness battered but staunchly defiant and with a record more cohesive and infinitely more glorious than anyone could have hoped . |
| 9 | We do not need to raise VAT and in the European Community we have fought harder than anyone could have done to maintain our zero rate . |
| 10 | It had been assisting people over the wall longer than anyone could remember . |
| 11 | It 's worse than anyone could imagine , worse even than the local people realize . |
| 12 | And there was very little everything and more nothing than anyone could imagine . |
| 13 | It was a more horrible sight than anyone could imagine — a hell-hound sent by the devil . |
| 14 | They are more powerful than anyone can imagine , more dangerous than anyone could realize . |
| 15 | He had my lord 's entire confidence — indeed it is hard to credit that anyone could change so radically as has my uncle . ’ |
| 16 | Whether that is achieved by a woman on this side or the other side of the House , to talk of women gaining promotion as part of a target number is one of the most stupid and fatuous things that anyone could suggest . |
| 17 | Commonsense told them that anyone could eat dozens of apples a day without suffering any permanent ill effect . |
| 18 | I do n't think that anyone could contemplate a retrospective of Matisse without the involvement at least of the four central institutions which are collaborating on our exhibition : the two Russian museums ; Paris and ourselves . |
| 19 | The murder was still so fresh in his head , he felt that anyone could smell it . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ Luce whispered , unwilling to believe that anyone could stoop so low as to steal a ring from a dead woman 's finger . |
| 21 | It seemed impossible that anyone could endure such pain for so long , but at last the doors of the Renault slammed and there was comparative silence . |
| 22 | An illegitimate birth in the degrading surroundings of the workhouse was about the deepest stigma that anyone could bear at the start of life . |
| 23 | His moment came at a time when shoring up the old seemed all that mattered or all that anyone could think of . |
| 24 | I could n't believe that anyone could love me and a lady equally , although I 've had a lot of experiences since and I 've known a lot of men and a lot of women since who have loved both sexes . |
| 25 | It was probably her most annoying characteristic that in a room full of beauties she would comport herself as one with a right to be there , and there was nothing in the world that anyone could do to disabuse her . |
| 26 | It 's beyond our Ken , TV 's voice of soccer and it 's top commentator through the 50s and 60s , that anyone could prefer the domestic Premier League highlights cobbled together for an hour on BBC 's Saturday night Match of the Day . |
| 27 | She refused to believe that anyone could start at that age ; she 'd been sixteen when hers had started . |
| 28 | Ali was shocked that anyone could make a mistake so gross . |
| 29 | By April 1924 the head of every firm involved had received from Buckingham Palace a signed letter in Queen Mary 's own hand describing the Dolls ' House as ‘ the most perfect present that anyone could receive ’ , and an invitation to visit it at the Palace of Arts . |
| 30 | Chapman , incensed that anyone could sully the good name of Huddersfield , arranged for Islip 's transfer to Birmingham , at an undisclosed fee said to be ‘ staggering ’ . |