Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] anything [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , like the most envious of step-mothers , she does not really want to leave anything worth having to John Major at all ; she wishes to live in Thatcherland , surrounded by mirrors all perpetually claiming her to be the one and only . |
| 2 | She could n't hope to achieve anything by exploding in his face all the time . |
| 3 | Somebody in authority would have known that he was married though , but , probably not anybody who could have done anything about preventing another one . |
| 4 | As I 've already said , it takes some believing that your agents could have unearthed anything worth killing for . |
| 5 | As one vice-chancellor said to New Scientist this week , ‘ a government scientist does not stand to gain anything by backing a successful idea . |
| 6 | But Limerick are the current league champions and Jim Nelson 's men ca n't afford to take anything for granted . |