Example sentences of "[prep] anything [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are usually landless people who have no hope of anything except scratching a living in the forest . |
| 2 | She could n't think of anything except getting away from here ; away from that room with all her destroyed belongings . |
| 3 | It seemed a funny sort of freedom to me when all you saw was poor people working like crazy and getting poorer and rich people not appearing to be doing much of anything except remaining quietly rich |
| 4 | Now the doubts in her mind were obliterated as a searing excitement took over , leaving her with no thought of evasion , no thought of anything but to respond completely , to enjoy the strength and purpose , the seductive presence of Rune Christensen , filling her senses with him , tasting , touching … enjoying … |
| 5 | I was in the most exquisite kind of agony , unable to think of anything but making love to you , and then I was pushing your skirt up and getting my face slapped . |
| 6 | He never smells of anything but soap . |
| 7 | The kids see Mr Jones as incapable of anything but command , Mr Jones sees the kids as incapable of anything but abuse . |
| 8 | The kids see Mr Jones as incapable of anything but command , Mr Jones sees the kids as incapable of anything but abuse . |
| 9 | They have n't lived near anything worth preserving before . ’ |
| 10 | True relaxation is something which can be learned by anyone — although , like anything worth having , it does take a little practice . |
| 11 | The Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , Lerwick and Sullom Voe were soon as familiar as the south coast and the Solent had become in the past , but familiarity would never make us treat these places with anything but respect and I tried never to take chances . |
| 12 | It was some years since this had been preoccupied with anything but work , which had taken the place of his former bodily urgings , fulfilling him completely . |
| 13 | Nicholas believed that ‘ No man can so much advance his own good and happiness in anything as endeavouring all that in him lies the good and welfare of others ; and who doth that daily doth perform the greatest good to himself as he can desire or wish for . ’ |
| 14 | He went from the reputable experts to the shadier middlemen , who traded in dubious goods , and from them to those who traded in anything without asking where it came from . |
| 15 | Carole and her American , jazz-loving husband Allan enjoy meeting their guests and are keen to give advice on anything from milking a cow to pointing out the best walks available . |
| 16 | Moreover we have the proverb that no one is elected to anything except to keep two other people out — and some of Cambridge doubted whether Stephen Neill for all his brilliance was reliable , and thought that neo-Thomism , despite the quality of Mascall 's mind , was a retrograde movement in divinity . |
| 17 | Without anything in writing to the contrary , it is legally assumed that all members of the band equally share the band 's profits and assets . |
| 18 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 19 | While a number of writers have profited from Eco 's example , they seem less exercised by the specifically creative problems with which , if we are to follow the Reflections , he was faced as a working author , not least the problems of how to say anything about anything without sounding unbearably false : |
| 20 | ‘ Ca n't you ever think about anything but correcting grammar ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I felt high for about four days , not thinking about anything but caring for her . ’ |
| 22 | and so you , you 'd have stuck it on the bench you see erm and it comes off anything without making a mark on |
| 23 | No time for anything except getting him out . |
| 24 | She was sorry for Therese Aschmann , but she had no energy left for anything except getting through her own part . |
| 25 | None of them came back , you see : the Americans could n't spare the trucks and the farms were n't allowed to use their petrol for anything but getting food to market . |
| 26 | He wanted to go and see Therese , thank her , warn her , but now had no energy for anything but getting to his office , sipping his brandy , and sitting back with his eyes closed , trying to steady his breathing . |
| 27 | ‘ No , he 's not got much time for anything but work . |
| 28 | A late lunch consists of a NAAFI pie and a cup of tea While everyone attempts to sort out their ‘ personal admin' , the Army 's great catch-all phase for anything from writing letters to darning socks . |
| 29 | Thereafter , we allays made a point of asking the culprit , whenever we wanted to use the bucket for anything from watering the flowers to doing the ironing , ‘ Is this water in here or urine ? ’ |
| 30 | A purpose-made mitre saw can be used for anything from cutting plastic pipework to general joinery and , of course , for picture framing . |