Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [verb] anything " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , when on a first ever run , the new runner , aged eight , finds himself or herself lined up next to another runner wearing a County vest the beginner begins to realise anything is possible . |
| 2 | Not everyone visiting the auction wants to buy anything . |
| 3 | This was not ‘ plausible deniability ’ , the provision of a believable cover for someone who already knew the facts ; it was , Poindexter agreed , ‘ absolute ’ deniability , ‘ the ability of the President to deny knowing anything about it , and be very truthful in that process . |
| 4 | It was upheld by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister at Maastricht , but it would have been undermined if the Leader of the Opposition had had anything to do with governing the country . |
| 5 | Neither he nor the exiles have done anything to help the starving people who wander the streets of the capital , Monrovia , looking for food and a future . |
| 6 | Throughout the three generations , the shop had sold anything and everything . |
| 7 | It is symptomatic of the depressed state of industry that so few of the individuals interviewed had anything positive to say about their experiences . |
| 8 | Does any of the officers want to say anything |
| 9 | The most natural explanation of why we oppose checkerboard statutes appeals to that ideal : we say that a state that adopts these internal compromises is acting in an unprincipled way , even though no single official who voted for or enforces the compromise has done anything which , judging his individual actions by the ordinary standards of personal morality , he ought not to have done . |
| 10 | The ‘ no meaning ’ theist denies that the theist needs to say anything about the existence of God that is intelligible to those who do n't already accept the existence of God as true . |
| 11 | At the time of its building , no one in the district had seen anything like it before . |
| 12 | A single policeman finally arrived to try the doors — all locked — and ask if the neighbours had heard anything suspicious . |
| 13 | Mercifully we had shut the refrigerator and the cupboards after looking in them , and there was nothing to indicate that the visitor had noticed anything amiss . |
| 14 | The tsar failed to do anything constructive in dealing with the problems of the mass of Russian people . |
| 15 | If the Government refuses to do anything about auditors ' liability , will it be credible for the APB to refuse to pursue its proposals on the role and scope of audit ? |
| 16 | Ever since the days when Ramsey was a boy at Repton , the Pope refused to have anything to do with the ecumenical movement . |
| 17 | How then could the meeting at Amsterdam pose as a meeting of Christendom when the largest Church in the world refused to have anything to do with it ? |
| 18 | I in particular , bearing in mind the point that er Mr i is making , that er newts seem to be as it were very choosy in where they er go , bearing in mind the existence of at least three other ponds in Skelton , I would like to know whe how er why it is or whether it is that newts are only found in this pond , and whether or not er the the survey has shown anything in either of er in any of the other ponds . |
| 19 | Neither of the others seemed to think anything of it though . |
| 20 | Although the Hun Sen years were relatively stable , Kampuchea suffered acutely from lack of foreign aid , since the USA refused to have anything to do with a Vietnam-supported regime . |
| 21 | I do n't think the two sides of the family have had anything to do with each other since . ’ |
| 22 | It was no use trying to resolve anything over the phone , though . |
| 23 | She was such a stranger to herself now ; it was no use trying to understand anything she did . |
| 24 | Arthur Browning , the son of Stamford architect Edward Browning , who was at the school in the 1870's , reports that ‘ The initiation of the new boys kissing the face of the ‘ Old Man' ’ , which forms the keystone of the church door , was seldom practised ’ and J. H. Boam of the same period recalled that the ceremony was only undertaken if a pupil had done anything to dishonour the school . |
| 25 | They behave similarly should a man appear carrying anything remotely like a gun ( for example , a cricket bat , a length of scaffolding or an umbrella ) . |
| 26 | George II was , very typically , in Hanover and there was a disposition to postpone doing anything decisive till he got back . |
| 27 | It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything . |
| 28 | I added bits where a player has done anything since . |