Example sentences of "anyone [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't resist mentioning the television series , just in case anyone should forget he was in it . |
| 2 | I stammered something about not understanding cricket , totally incredulous that anyone should suppose I did understand it , or that I should regard the English side as ‘ we ’ . |
| 3 | So when he bought Sarah Byrne the songbird he did n't deliver her straight to the door of the Bradford house of employment just in case anyone should recognize him and pass comment on the fact that he had taken one of the servants out driving . |
| 4 | Richard , he said , was deeply offended that anyone should think he would lower himself to the depths of duping the editor of Music Week . |
| 5 | Or at least Kenny had no idea why anyone should think he was an oppo of yours , and he could tell them virtually zilch . |
| 6 | There are even special joys for women : the pride in learning a guaranteed way to keep the boots dry which , if performed behind waist-high bush , means ‘ you can casually and with dignity intact carry on a conversation with the rest of the camp ’ ; no more of the old ‘ search for a place to hide ( God forbid anyone should know we have to pee in the first place ) . ’ |
| 7 | Watching the cuisinières during the early stages , there was no obvious clue as to why anyone should find it necessary to draw a theoretical distinction between male and female chefs . |
| 8 | Loretta , who was ignorant of the etiquette attached to these affairs , had been on tenterhooks throughout tea in case anyone should ask her to dance . |
| 9 | This week , Jefferson Morley , the Washington editor of the Nation , wrote in the New Republic about his experience , one night , of smoking a couple of $25 rocks of crack , an experience he justified with the following words : ‘ I would n't argue that you have to smoke crack to understand the war on drugs … ( nor ) that crack is n't hazardous or that anyone should try it . |
| 10 | If anyone should hear him . |
| 11 | Not that it seriously occurred to either of us that anyone might think we had murdered Dennis . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyone might hear you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ There 's an hour before anyone 'll thank me for ringing them back , ’ he said defiantly . |
| 14 | Anyone 'd tell you . |
| 15 | Anyone 'd think I 'd never had a baby before . ’ |
| 16 | Anyone 'd think you was a flea on the organ-grinder 's monkey . ’ |
| 17 | Anyone 'd think you 'd never been south of Harwich . |
| 18 | Olla was bargaining with nightmarish persistence for a carpet , and Mart was considering nipping back to the boat to see if anyone could lend him five hundred quid so he could buy a really wicked sword . |
| 19 | Diogenes , instead of building his own success and fulfilling himself , did the opposite and stripped himself of all pride so that there was no way anyone could hurt him . |
| 20 | Do n't assume you 're being told the whole story this week just because you ca n't imagine how anyone could distort it . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the only way anyone could ensure they 'd be virgins ! ’ |
| 22 | They were fairly clumsy devices and only offered security from one side : anyone could unlock them from the other side . |
| 23 | Anyone could handle him . |
| 24 | as if anyone could melt them down . |
| 25 | It would be badly drawn , badly composed , with gross textures and no subject at all : almost anyone could do it . |
| 26 | Anyone could do it . ’ |
| 27 | very , anyone could do it , you know |
| 28 | Anyone could tell they were brother and sister they were so much alike , except that he had a little goatee beard on his chin . |
| 29 | The murder was still so fresh in his head , he felt that anyone could smell it . |
| 30 | There was no way anyone could mistake me for anyone other than a journalist . |