Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] anything " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , I have only rarely heard anything which has interested me . |
| 2 | Bad taste , do you , do you really rather disapprove anything that it is in any of them , do you think it inappropriate , not on , is there something in bad taste ? |
| 3 | No one ever goes on eating anything they do n't like for long . |
| 4 | If you are a teacher I do not ask you to believe or take on trust anything I say . |
| 5 | Cabinet memoranda are not published and the Official Secrets Act effectively prohibits anything but titbits of information coming onto the public agenda for consideration . |
| 6 | The kitchen has two cookers , a big plastic dustbin , two sets of tables and chairs and a tall fridge , which rarely has anything other than milk in it . |
| 7 | Wading dangerously mid-stream to release flies caught on underwater obstructions , I rarely caught anything else . |
| 8 | A few minutes later Branco sent a typically fiendish Brazilian free-kick dipping and swerving past the wall and Van Breukelen , who rarely encountered anything like this in his Nottingham Forest days , punched the ball clear without knowing much about it . |
| 9 | Leisure wear manufacturers embraced the superfluous pocket with great enthusiasm ; here was a way of disguising less than pristine workmanship with countless compartments in the shape of long pointed things and small squat ones — nothing sensible enough to accommodate anything that people really own . |
| 10 | Not , he admits , that the pilot would be able literally to see anything but ‘ the longing in our hearts — that he would not come to harm — would reach up to him and his eyes would be opened . ’ |
| 11 | In the late 16th century there was a short period when , rather than the usual 13 ribs , lutes suddenly sprouted anything up to 37 and made of very narrow strips of yew . |
| 12 | ‘ Your shoulders are broad enough to bear anything . ’ |
| 13 | Although his fellow psychiatrists were thoroughly sceptical about the usefulness of an elimination diet — which Dr Mackarness had learned about from clinical ecologists in America — they were desperate enough to try anything . |
| 14 | All seemed to be in order , but next morning , after having trouble with one of the receivers , he went up again to make sure he had not inadvertently disturbed anything . |
| 15 | These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) . |
| 16 | He did not like children ; he did not much like anything . |
| 17 | Elizabeth is not well enough to discuss anything , she needs rest and peace . |
| 18 | ‘ Not that I 've personally got anything against your legs . ’ |
| 19 | Radar can also yield images , but whereas a radio telescope or a group of such telescopes can yield an image of an object in an analogous way to a conventional telescope , a radar pulse from the Earth can not be made narrow enough to select anything other than the whole disc of the planet , except for the Moon where small areas can be examined because of its large angular diameter . |
| 20 | The clinical terms project was started last year to develop a set of terms comprehensive enough to cover anything that a clinician might need to write in a patient 's record . |
| 21 | Her sleeve of care was unravelled all right : her life was a basket of woollen shreds , all shades and textures and not one of them long enough to do anything with . |
| 22 | He 'd hear the engine starting , of course , but , by the time he 'd got himself together enough to do anything about it , she should at least have a head start . |
| 23 | If you 're daft enough to pay good money to have paint shot into your crotch , you 're daft enough to do anything . |
| 24 | He is only an ordinary Hobbit who came to own the Ring because he was given it and he does not consider himself great enough to do anything with it except destroy it . |
| 25 | It 's big enough to do anything on ? |
| 26 | But I think you 'll find it difficult i in er Scotland with men because er er er , they are , and same as the North of England , they are rather erm er er er , er difficult about , about women coming in to do anything are n't they ? |
| 27 | Did n't have enough people in to do anything else . |
| 28 | Erm , you know it 's saying that motherhood is a good thing , but let's not exert ourselves too greatly to do anything about it . |
| 29 | Several crutches , though , and quite a few people who did n't apparently have anything wrong with them , helpers or nurses , he supposed . |
| 30 | In times like these they are frightened enough to believe anything . ’ |