Example sentences of "[subord] anyone [Wh pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1958 Ken 's star was rising faster than anyone who had known him could have thought possible . |
| 2 | ‘ We will not examine all of them but we will take random samples and check to see if anyone who has registered for gross interest also has a file at one of our tax offices — which they should not normally have as only non-taxpayers should be registered for gross interest . |
| 3 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 4 | This is not to say that only poetry with ‘ positive attitudes to life ’ is acceptable , since anyone who has thought about the representation of evil in literature , whether in satire or tragedy or in the novel , will know that an apparently negative attitude can be in fact profoundly positive . |
| 5 | That sounds humane enough in theory , and no doubt it saved many hundreds of families from starvation during the years of the French wars ; but it positively encouraged employers to keep wages at rock-bottom levels , while anyone who wanted to do an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay was subject , instead , to the ignominy of accepting supplementary alms in order to live . |