Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 2 | He had lifted her into his arms before she could protest , although in truth she hardly felt in any condition to trek back up the incline towards the barn . |
| 3 | After that , she never washed in any water but cold water except when she could borrow a steaming kettle from her aunt in order to wash herself piecemeal in the kitchen or the cramped wash-basin in the bathroom . |
| 4 | but I do n't think you actually mentioned at any time you know the , the wife 's involvement in it other than that point . |
| 5 | Then to find all the OTHER under-5 activities we called at all the Sports Centres and Community centres in the area , and finally we also looked at ANY noticeboard ANY where ! |
| 6 | We never heard any grumbling , everyone ate everything and we never heard of any health problems ( if there were any ) ; it was totally refreshing for all to be themselves and be accepted as they were . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 9 | When I went to Webber Douglas they practically fell on any man as a rare species . |
| 10 | I still think some of the things on it were OK , but it generally fell between any number of stools . ’ |
| 11 | The miniature flute was the only object Carrefour retained from his childhood , and the only one which he even remembered with any clarity . |
| 12 | Although he was involved with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre , he never settled with any organisation for long , nor did he believe that permanent companies were likely to produce better work than ad hoc assemblies . |
| 13 | Although there was a resistance movement to the German occupation , it never developed on any scale and did not have the support of the mass of the people who were coddled by the occupying regime . |