Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] any [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the living room Bruce said he asked about any old china she might have had . |
| 2 | She asked for any qualified teacher interested in assisting with training — not necessarily on a full time basis — but willing to sit in and observe and become involved generally — perhaps you have a special knowledge and/or interest in Music — Dance — Anatomy — Etc or would like to know more about training and the role of the trainer . |
| 3 | If symptoms of disease occurred during any five day reintroduction then that particular food was said to be suspect and was temporarily omitted from the diet . |
| 4 | However , it can not be proved or disproved in any final way and is unavoidably a political statement . |
| 5 | This cultural empathy inevitably leads to a fusion of individual expression and tradition that is far more pronounced than that found in any other category of oriental rug . |
| 6 | Thirdly , it is doubtful whether the General Strike could be regarded as the watershed in British labour history , which it is sometimes claimed to be , or that it changed in any significant form the pattern of industrial relations . |
| 7 | It merits the longest entry devoted to any one person in Boswell 's account , and no more than two sentences in Johnson 's : the person they met was Flora Macdonald , who had helped Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape after Culloden . |
| 8 | As the table shows , detached , or almost detached , boards were the most common specific defect , affecting more than half ( 59% ) of all items in need of repair , while loose , or almost loose , pages ( 27% ) , heavy soiling ( 20% ) , and apparently acidic paper ( 18% ) were the only other specific defects which occurred to any significant extent . |
| 9 | Narrow and deeply potholed , the road coiled without any protective barriers next to vertiginous drops to the valleys below . |
| 10 | But though his mind was , and remained , romantically anti-Establishment , at once Catholic and mildly left-wing , his fiction never seemed impelled by any serious desire to alter the social system of a nation from which , after the war , he was willingly an exile , and his arguments concern rather the writer 's alleged duty to refuse all favours from the state — even ‘ the bourgeois state ’ , as he calls it — and to live in romantic independence , royalties apart : surviving ( in Joyce 's famous phrase ) by silence and cunning . |
| 11 | Since he disapproved of any English links with Europe as much as he disapproved of links with Wales or Scotland , his world view seemed somewhat restricted . |
| 12 | It seemed like any other car . |
| 13 | Erm another thing I noted under any other business is green strategy document . |
| 14 | Nobody seemed in any great hurry . |
| 15 | We do n't want to be murdered , raped , robbed , assaulted , or criminally victimized in any other way . |
| 16 | These European States , members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation , regarded themselves as essential participants in the Western alliance and therefore as directly implicated in any perceived threat to it . |
| 17 | According to Taheri , Britain regarded the hostage-takers as criminals and saw the problem largely in terms of policing , rather than negotiating , which was why British hostages were a low priority and would be bottom of the list when it came to any subsequent releases . |
| 18 | Already she felt a sense of belonging , a need to protect this special place from the trampling hordes who came without any real feeling , who listened without understanding , and looked without seeing . |
| 19 | The Japanese attack , by two divisions directed at Imphal and Kohima , was a supreme effort to break through into India and came without any prior intelligence from any quarter . |
| 20 | Order twen er , rule twenty , eight , four provides that when a party is entitled to costs , and that of course is the case of the plaintiffs , a , fails without good reason to commence or conduct proceedings for the taxation of those costs in accordance with this order or any direction or b , delays lodging a bill of costs for taxation , the taxing office may one , disallow already part of the costs of taxation that he would otherwise would warn about the party and two , after taking into account all the circumstances , including any prejudice suffered by any other party as result of such failure or delay as the case maybe , and any additional interest payable under section seventeen of the judgements act because of the failure or delay , allow the party so entitled less than the amount he would otherwise have allowed on taxation of the bill are wholly disallowed the costs , his provision for an appeal to allow to the judge and chambers and that is the way the matter is coming before |
| 21 | There are 20 cloaks and robes hanging on pegs here , made of various materials but none identified by any visible insignia . |
| 22 | The main part of Residents ' Association case is that the amount of relief afforded by any western relief road , does not justify the environmental damage which that road will cause . |
| 23 | These have all featured in GH and we 'll be keeping you informed of any new developments . |
| 24 | It sits upon a throne , an absolute monarch , unafraid of any princely off-spring still unborn and by its Subjects it is hated , feared , revered and loved , known by all and recognized by none . |
| 25 | Sharpe was among the staff officers who trotted their horses down the Charleroi road , past the Gemioncourt farm by the ford , and so on up the shallow hill until they reached the infantry brigade which guarded against any frontal attack up the high road . |
| 26 | Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law . |
| 27 | ‘ You ca n't tell me you acted from any other motives than lust and greed , ’ he announced firmly when she stopped speaking . |
| 28 | Subrules 1a and 1b specify that in monomorphemic monosyllables ( o ) will be realized as a raised and lengthened variant before a voiceless fricative occurring either alone or in a cluster ; alternatively , it will be raised and lengthened before any voiced consonant either alone or in a cluster . |
| 29 | Once he had settled into the right-back position he was impossible to move from the Palace first team ( unless illness or injury intervened , and the career chart shows that there was only one season when that happened to any serious degree ) , and he appeared there regularly until the 1st World War brought an end to competitive football and threw everyone 's affairs into confusion . |
| 30 | Who ever heard of any fanatical terrorist outfit being able to organize three assassinations in three different countries within the same twenty-four hours ? ’ |