Example sentences of "[subord] there was anything [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there was anything to be done in that line , he would do it and do it excellently . |
| 2 | His aunt and her daughter stayed to hear if there was anything of interest in the will which she had left in a drawer , but they went disappointed , giving Tim a couple of moist hugs on their way out . |
| 3 | ‘ I was checking to see if there was anything worth watching on television . ’ |
| 4 | Two goats grazed between the tables , and looked with mild brown eyes to see if there was anything worth stealing from the tables . |
| 5 | Just on the shall we say off-chance I asked what the situation was regarding additional lines between Norwich and Crawley as between Stansted Norwich and Crawley to see if there was anything under way and what the approximate cost would be because erm well I know there 's more D D I facilities now . |
| 6 | I was weathering the winter and believed that if there was anything in my lung , then at the very worst I was holding it at bay . |
| 7 | ‘ I came to see if there was anything in the apartment to give me a lead on who killed Mahoney , ’ I said . |
| 8 | If there was anything like a Foreign Legion story , or something like Hitchcock 's Lifeboat , when the characters had to ration out the water , you 'd slowly turn up the heat . |
| 9 | Questions of construction may be involved on what is said in Parliament and I can not see how if the rule is modified in this way the parties ' legal advisers could properly come to court without having looked to see whether there was anything in the Hansard Report on the Bill which could assist their case . |
| 10 | I wondered whether there was anything in the teaching of Tai-Fing that could get me through the next half an hour . |