Example sentences of "[noun prp] could [adv] [verb] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ari could hardly muster any enthusiasm . |
| 2 | Ballater could n't see any connection . |
| 3 | Defries could n't see any alternative , but she felt obliged to point out the difficulties . |
| 4 | Thereafter Ladislav could not keep any post for long before the authorities hounded him out of it . |
| 5 | Orson Welles was too busy with his radio show , Bela Lugosi could never get any master plan together beyond his next insane experiment , Vincent Price would n't rank with the major bad guys until horror pictures caught on again , and Zachary Scott 's thin moustache betrayed his lack of substance as a mastermind . |
| 6 | Juliet could n't hear any sound from the ward . |
| 7 | For example , the Mikado in Japan could not lose any hair or nails for he was so holy , nor could he move unduly as this would mean there would be a flood , or invasion , or some other calamity in his empire . |
| 8 | The land around them did n't seem a lot different to the place they 'd left , except that the vegetation was lower and Masklin could n't see any water . |
| 9 | Blake could n't see any form of power and assumed this was a machine-driven contraption . |
| 10 | Pavel could n't get any breakfast , because he still did n't have any English money . |
| 11 | Not different at all , countered Weinberger : still fanatically anti-American and virulently anti-western ; America could not do any business with them . |