Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [prep] any " in BNC.

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1 I was never in any hurry though , he wrote .
2 He might not have involved himself too much in the day-to-day running of the club , yet I was never in any doubt as to who made the final decisions .
3 I was never in any doubt that Russell would be successful as a pro and I do n't believe we have seen anything like the best of him yet .
4 It was a catch-all for every kind of opinion which was literally in any way remarkable . ’
5 She knew it was snobbish , that she was just like any other package holiday-maker .
6 The lines could , of course , be read as reflecting on Alison : " she was there for any man " .
7 But it was clearly to any one firm 's advantage if somewhere was elsewhere .
8 I thought it was just like any other party .
9 Not that it was so by any means , but it was the elbow-joint in the journey .
10 For various reasons , therefore , he moved to Jamaica and , although he returned to Barbados many times , it was never with any great enthusiasm for the place .
11 Now , Woolwich having won that litigation , the revenue asserts that it was never under any obligation to repay the money , and that it in fact repaid it only as a matter of grace .
12 absolute nonsense and he took an accolade for that , when in fact , it was never under any threat from European legislation , it was our own British Food Act , and that , our own interpretation of European war , that has brought the threat to us .
13 At the symposium , ‘ Are You Prepared for IT ? ’ , hosted by Zenith Data Systems , Gates spoke out on object programming , saying he thought the concept was just another hype that extends far beyond the reality available today — having said that , he said to look out for Microsoft 's Object Linking and Embedding 2.0 ‘ during 1993 ’ , saying he was all for any technology that will enable the economical re-use of parts of programs .
14 I do n't think he was ever in any position to keep the Russians au fait with American developments .
15 He was so unlike any of the people I had met before … ’
16 Lack of attention aside , his name still cropped up in many conversations but he was never in any real danger of being taken seriously within the circle of Manchester 's low art dwellers .
17 He was never in any doubt , however , that obedience of lay rulers , including the emperor , was to him .
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