Example sentences of "[vb pp] any [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't believe that with any union this company would have been cracked any quicker . |
| 2 | The houses and the district had never looked any cheaper . |
| 3 | Not that , given the same set of circumstances , she could see how Cara would have fared any better . |
| 4 | For some minutes she again wondered if Cara would have fared any better . |
| 5 | As I seem to have missed any further pronouncements from this source on this topic , I would be very interested to hear if anyone can shed any light on any recent attempts that the Catholic Church may have made in order to extricate themselves from a presumably somewhat embarrassing position . |
| 6 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 7 | IF he had been running a 100 metre sprint final , little Louis Stevens could n't have scampered any faster yesterday . |
| 8 | And it 's not made any better by feeling sorry for him . |
| 9 | If they were made any thicker , they would grip the batteries too tightly to allow the springs to push them against the positive contact . |
| 10 | Nor is the waiting made any easier when , at 11.00 p.m. two carp roll over my swim within minutes of each other . |
| 11 | Make no mistake , you 're in for a really hard time , and it 's not made any easier by the baddies who wander across the screen . |
| 12 | For the next five minutes he pounded frustratingly at the seal lining , the task not made any easier by the rhythmic rocking of the train as it sped through the rain . |
| 13 | None of it was made any easier by the fact that all the songs were in complicated French and to be able to sing them it helped to understand them . |
| 14 | Things are not made any easier by the removal for many people of ‘ organized ’ production as a central constitutive experience of their social being . |
| 15 | The Court 's position had not been made any easier by suggestions that it was possible for the Government to influence its decisions . |
| 16 | The current exercise has been no exception and the task has not been made any easier by the current level of economic uncertainty and its implications for the future size and structure of employment and unemployment at the end of the plan period . |
| 17 | The problems I have to resolve under this heading are not made any easier by uncertainty , even in the short term future , as to who will be doing the caring and at what stages changes to the present regime will take place . |
| 18 | Of course , it was n't made any easier by the fact that Jack was attracting a great deal of interest , anyway . |
| 19 | and I 'm certainly show that few of us have grown any wiser in the intervening decade . |
| 20 | Could dinosaurs themselves have grown any bigger ? |
| 21 | For example , despite Odysseus ' twenty years ' absence from home , on his return neither he nor Penelope appear to have grown any older . |
| 22 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 23 | I could n't have shot any worse I do n't think so I do n't know what 'll happen . |
| 24 | Replace cookers , instal new deep freeze units , streamline all the worksurfaces , here you are , you wo n't get it done any cheaper than that I can promise you . |
| 25 | Have you done any further study/training since leaving school/ college ? |
| 26 | Since yesterday 's decisions are clearly further progress towards European union , can the Prime Minister say whether the United Kingdom has moved any closer to the acceptance of a single European currency ? |
| 27 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has had any further discussions concerning the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 28 | When she 'd regained some degree of composure , she asked , ‘ Have you had any further thoughts as to where Mamma 's ‘ appropriate ’ place might be ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We could not have got any closer to Wembley than we did in those two games . |
| 30 | Has he got any bigger like cos he was small like ? |