Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] anything that [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I would like to share with you a burden for prayer as I feel it is only right that all Christians should know about anything that would deny us total freedom .
2 Your parents are legally responsible for you and one of them ought to know about anything that might affect your health , either emotionally or physically .
3 ( Parent : ‘ Can you think of anything that might go wrong if we adopt that course of action ? ’ )
4 And he simply could not think of anything that might have made him become a Muslim .
5 ‘ I ca n't think of anything that would please her more than to be investigated by you . ’
6 ‘ But right now , I ca n't think of anything that would help . ’
7 I can not think of anything that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more certain .
8 Duncan got in the cab and searched for anything that might have been left .
9 In fieldwork , you are really looking for anything that might confirm the existence of a ley .
10 All morning the world 's top cyclists will have been reconnoitring the course , selecting their gear ratios and the most suitable of their many bikes , looking at the route for the best way through corners , testing the strength and direction of the wind — looking for anything that will give them that little extra in this first trial of strength , which will be clocked in tenths and hundredths of a second .
11 Therefore , we must expect some major changes in that region in the coming years and be prepared for anything that might arise as a result .
12 If , in defence of your own attitudes , you do n't wish to examine them and believe that they are fixed , it 's not worth exposing yourself and listening to anything that might make you think differently .
13 Next , go to see the local planning officer and the building control officer and ask them if they know of anything that might affect the house , and show them your list .
14 The outside surface is formed by a lacy sheet of soldiers , their legs linked together , their huge jaws agape , ready to slice into anything that might interfere with them .
15 The parents are quick to seize on anything that might suggest we use boys as unpaid labour .
16 Spectres of poverty beset him , and he hankered after anything that would last .
17 In other words , the subconscious was working in an expanding way , trying to think of anything that might have been overlooked .
18 In times of social upheaval we guard against anything that might make society fragment too precipitately and dangerously , and we try to take care that racist or intolerant literature is suppressed .
19 I will not speculate on anything that would upset things . ’
20 Exorcising ghosts , no memories , it all has to be cleansed of anything that might remind him , no shadows of personality to be left behind like a coat on a hook , no toothbrush in a glass like a withered flower .
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