Example sentences of "[prep] anything that [modal v] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't think of anything that would please her more than to be investigated by you . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We are afraid of the new , of anything that might make us grow or change . ’ |
| 4 | His first impulse was to throw it away , to rid himself of anything that might link him with Maidstone and Maidstone 's death . |
| 5 | With several newly qualified teachers and many more awaiting initiation , they literally ‘ Swung ’ all over the place — adult institutes , local church halls , fetes , in fact in or on anything that would give them a few square feet of space ; one Essex teacher even did a two year S-T-R-E-T-C-H in H.M Prison , Holloway and got time off for good behaviour ( a class of course ! ) . |
| 6 | The parents are quick to seize on anything that might suggest we use boys as unpaid labour . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |