Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] anything that [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previous explorations , in 1987 and 1988 , failed to discover anything that could help explain why the plane crashed on its routine flight from Bologna to Palermo in June 1980 . |
| 2 | To this end , he had not even considered packing anything that could remotely be considered seaside wear , and as a result suppressed a pang of envy when his cab turned along the Victoria Parade and his eyes beheld a scene that reminded him irresistibly of his annual holiday at Margate , fortunately yet to come . |
| 3 | Nobody in this much bull-shitted century has achieved anything that can outlast what the men who laid out these stones did here . |
| 4 | While some Labour politicians have been supportive , others have displayed a small-minded determination to avoid saying anything that might offend Muslim voters , as if that was the highest issue at stake . |
| 5 | Catastrophism became a joke and no geologist would dare postulate anything that might be termed a " catastrophe " for fear of being laughed at or ( in recent years ) linked with a lunatic fringe of Velikovsky and Californian fundamentalists . |
| 6 | ‘ The Government is pinning its hopes for economic recovery on the housing market , so it would n't want to do anything that would snuff it out , ’ said Mike Simpson , Suffolk spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 7 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 8 | Fearful of punitive damages , companies will avoid doing anything that might later be seen as an admission of guilt . |
| 9 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 10 | In the past the ruling council of Lloyd 's has refused to contemplate anything that would appear to mutualise names ' losses . |
| 11 | There were nights when , hearing him start at three or four in the morning , she would have welcomed anything that would let him stop and rest-paregoric , a sugar-tit , any of those wicked things . |
| 12 | Since her death he had never wanted to touch anything that might remind him of her . |
| 13 | Since betting was legalised 30 years ago , bookmakers have not been allowed to do anything that might ‘ stimulate ’ a punter to bet . |
| 14 | You will appreciate that with political affairs in their present delicate state we can not afford to overlook anything that might touch upon questions of security . ’ |
| 15 | If you DO video anything that might interest us call our Newsdesk on 0235-554123 . |
| 16 | I did n't want to say anything that could stop Sir Henry from coming to live at the Hall . |
| 17 | But Ruth Rendell , here , is not trying to describe anything that might truly have happened . |
| 18 | I refuse to hear anything that might disrupt my own plans . |