Example sentences of "anything [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certainly not due to anything laid down in the egg or due to anything special about the first two divisions . |
| 2 | Thinly spread playing strength and rugby league are imposing pressures different from anything experienced elsewhere in the country . |
| 3 | It provides a much clearer image of the ‘ cherub-faced ’ boy than anything produced so far , though the features of the other boy remain indistinct . |
| 4 | You can get anything made here . |
| 5 | Glassfibre aggregate must be as hard-wearing as anything used now , and would n't it give you a warm glow to know that your old Saucy Sal was helping you speed to your new shining craft down the newly laid section of the motorway ? |
| 6 | Films such as The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ) , where a psychologist 's efforts to reform the mugger he 's picked up off the street are subverted by his own drives and the desires of his wife , The Criminal ( 1960 , The Concrete Jungle in US ) , in which Stanley Baker plays a loner trapped between the violent prison system and the criminal underworld , or The Servant ( 1963 ) , in which butler is pitched against master , focus on tensions in British society much more interesting than anything opened up by Anderson 's contemporaries . |
| 7 | The only thing that stopped them cutting us to ribbons was that one of my friends had the gift of the gab and gradually defused the situation by talking good sense in a calm reasonable way ; finally he pointed out that we would all end up in the local police cells if anything happened anyway . |
| 8 | In this way , if anything leaked out about the deal , the Americans could claim they were not supplying Iran directly . |
| 9 | The gulf between Hitler 's immense popularity and the generally low standing of the Party had nevertheless if anything widened still further in the first wartime years . |
| 10 | Well if I were you I 'd get in touch with me if anything turned up . |
| 11 | ‘ I feel I 'll score goals anywhere in any system and not just as a forward player getting on the end of anything knocked long . |
| 12 | Suddenly the suburban street outside the school was blasted by an explosion louder than anything heard there since the Luftwaffe bombed it in 1944 . |
| 13 | Virtually anything waved around in the receptive fields of these cells will evoke a response under the right conditions . |
| 14 | But Cameron felt spent with the effort of the past hour and would say only , ‘ Let us see if anything went on at Weem . ’ |
| 15 | Mad things , bad things , anything went there . |
| 16 | I have n't seen anything sent out about that careers |
| 17 | Dalton interwove the two viewpoints in Labour 's June 1944 statement on full employment ( which he described as largely Keynesian with some socialist additions ) and Labour 's 1945 election manifesto was more convincing on full employment than anything put out by the Conservatives . |
| 18 | Bolivia is no longer the tremendously cheap country it was five or six years ago , and anything organised expressly for foreign travellers costs almost what it would in Europe . |
| 19 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 20 | Even when it was too dark to see anything reflected there , the suggestion of movement within the tainted glass gave added weight to the boy 's night-time fears . |
| 21 | The view that the infinitive involves a generalized representation of person as the support necessary to conceive the lexical content as an event thus in no way contradicts anything said previously . |
| 22 | He was no stranger now and leaving him was hard , more bitter to her than anything had ever been . |
| 23 | Because his arms had felt as good around her as anything had ever felt in her life ? |
| 24 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 25 | The Everyday Electronics official policy is that anything published more than five years ago is ‘ old ’ , which I suppose is about right . |
| 26 | I do n't want anything raked up . ’ |