Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ ! |
| 2 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 3 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 4 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 5 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy . |
| 7 | What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do . |
| 8 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 9 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
| 10 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 11 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |