Example sentences of "do anything [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was not , he said as he ushered Rain into his richly furnished sitting room on Wednesday afternoon , as though he had done anything with which to reproach himself , the fault lay entirely with the MacQuillan people . |
| 32 | I have n't done anything with it . |
| 33 | The problem with keeping the original ( e.g. as a photocopy , with sections highlighted ) is that you have n't really done anything with it yet : you have n't assimilated it or made it your own , in the sense of fitting it with ( and so allowing it to affect ) your existing thoughts and knowledge . |
| 34 | Let's just hope that whoever took those drugs has n't done anything with them . ’ |
| 35 | Clare 's never told me that she 'd done anything with Stuart . |
| 36 | I have n't done anything with them . |
| 37 | No I have n't done anything with that yet . |
| 38 | I 'd have done anything for you once upon a time . |
| 39 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |
| 40 | His two daughters who he 'd never really done anything for — expecting them to look after him . |
| 41 | I would have done anything for Charlie , and was , in fact , even now sorting out twenty years ' worth of his possessions . |
| 42 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 43 | I would have done anything for him ; gone anywhere with him . |
| 44 | I 'd have done anything for your dad , ever since . |
| 45 | She 'd known this would happen , but she 'd done nothing ; she 'd never done anything for Fand . |
| 46 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 47 | He remembers , ‘ she would have done anything for anyone . ’ |
| 48 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 49 | I do nt think he has done anything for the national game . |
| 50 | He made you feel you 'd have done anything for him and never counted the price too high . ’ |
| 51 | they say that ad , it pays to advertise I mean , to me advertising has never done anything for me well I do n't think it has anyway but if it pays to advertise and look at the number of people that read the Express |
| 52 | ‘ What a day it 's been and we have n't really done anything at all . |
| 53 | Well I have n't done anything at the moment because I di I did n't think it was worth it actually . |
| 54 | Well I have n't done anything at the moment because I did n't I did n't think it was worth it actually . |
| 55 | Mr David Cummings , general manager , said : ‘ We have never done anything on this scale , but everyone has been fantastic and our suppliers have stood by us . ’ |
| 56 | We were in the show King and Country and had never done anything on stage before . |
| 57 | So there are a few initiatives there , but I do n't think there 's been done anything on the music front though . |
| 58 | Erm have you done anything on ionic lattices or giant metal lattices ? |
| 59 | I 'm n have you done anything on language ? |
| 60 | But he could equally well have said one is enthusiasm and the other is cynicism , one is facility and the other is aridity , one is gregariousness and the other is solitude , one is the belief that no one has ever done anything of value before and the other is the belief that everything has already been done , one is spontaneity and the other is cerebration , one is joy and the other is despair , one is heart and the other is mind , one is the garret and the other is the penthouse , one is sincerity and the other is irony , one is Jung and the other is Freud , one is Rimbaud and the other is Mallarmé , one is wine and the other is coffee , one is rags and the other is riches , one is women and the other is celibacy , one is health and the other is disease , one is meat and the other is vegetables , one is life and the other is death , one is everything in upper case and the other is everything in lower case , one is everything in roman and the other is everything in italics . |