Example sentences of "do anything that [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you ever done anything that would help with this now ? |
| 2 | She must never ever do anything that might make them fight . |
| 3 | Arseholes , I would n't , I would n't do anything like that , I would n't do anything that might hurt |
| 4 | If there is any iron law of bureaucracy it must be that such organizations will not willingly do anything that may be against the organization 's perceived long-term interests and that , on occasions , this will lead the organization to ignore its nominal masters . |
| 5 | Editor , — Allyson M Pollock and Azeem Majeed 's arguments in response to our editorial on consultant episodes could perhaps be summarised as ‘ the internal market is intrinsically flawed and we should not do anything that would delay its demise . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm a pretty perceptive person , I understand people quite well , but I never dreamt that my mother could do anything that would damage my daughter so greatly . |
| 7 | A true friend would not do anything that would enable the disease to continue but would instead take the difficult and risky path of totally confronting it , while still loving the sufferer , despite all the harshness that the disease will cause the sufferer to throw in return . |
| 8 | She was not going to say or do anything that would make John Major 's task more difficult : the Cabinet , here she indicated them with a sinuous wave of her hand , was the most brilliant since Herbert Asquith 's and , as for Central Office , and she looked directly at Sir Charles , who was mopping his brow , they were good men and true who strove mightily in the interests of the Party , and for precious little reward . |
| 9 | ‘ I still think you 're totally wrong , but I 'd never do anything that could endanger you — or the club . ’ |
| 10 | It was an aggressive type that had even reached Kingsmarkham , a type that talked pacifism and the rights of man and brotherly love without the energy or courage to do anything that might bring these desirable conditions nearer . |
| 11 | Since betting was legalised 30 years ago , bookmakers have not been allowed to do anything that might ‘ stimulate ’ a punter to bet . |
| 12 | " I do n't want you to do anything that might attract the least sort of suspicion to yourself , but could you , in the normal course of your work , make out a list of the voyages of your ships over the past year — just name of ship and masters , ports of call , and dates ? " |
| 13 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 14 | It was dangerous , too , to appear too over-confident , or to do anything that might provoke him into making his unofficial fatwa slightly more public than it was already . |
| 15 | ‘ The Government is pinning its hopes for economic recovery on the housing market , so it would n't want to do anything that would snuff it out , ’ said Mike Simpson , Suffolk spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 16 | First , the hon. Gentleman is terrified of saying anything that would upset his trade union paymasters ; secondly , he is afraid to do anything that would remind the electorate of the chains that bind his party to those paymasters — the bosses of the trade unions . |
| 17 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 18 | Fearful of punitive damages , companies will avoid doing anything that might later be seen as an admission of guilt . |
| 19 | Even their religious faith was subtly different from her own : they seemed hemmed in by a regiment of saints , feasts , rules , indulgences , penances and novenas , and everyone seemed to be permanently on guard against saying or doing anything that might be deemed heretical . |
| 20 | ‘ Elsewhere short-termism has had a terrible impact on the industry with quarterly reporting and the fear of doing anything that might affect the share price , ’ he said . |
| 21 | As subject , Edmund acts for himself , doing anything that will advance him : Goneril and Regan live by the same principle . |
| 22 | Without doing anything that could be described as eccentric , he left an impression of strangeness . |
| 23 | ‘ At one point things got out of hand and we had to organise a group of MPs a Make-up Patrol crew to follow the actors around to see that they did n't eat anything or do anything that would affect the prosthetic face gear . ’ |
| 24 | And if you thought you had a fight last year over bi-annual congresses , you wait until you try and do anything that will affect our structure in the future . |