Example sentences of "anything that [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I 'm afraid so , I think it 's compounded by the fact that your , what your dad says sums it up beautifully about your mum , I was talking to him about , you know , what does she , what she 's got in her life other than what she ever had other than a home , working and so on , has she got any hobbies at home or does she do anything is there anything that takes her mind off things |
| 2 | There is also trip to Hall , formerly the centre of the Tyrol 's salt industry ; on to the Swarovski crystal factory show rooms where you will see glass being blown and painted , as well as having the opportunity to buy anything that takes your fancy . |
| 3 | One day you will wake up ( it may be a nice sunny Sunday morning ) and you will luxuriate in the fact that you can do anything that you want to do — anything that takes your fancy — and there is no one else to consider . |
| 4 | Offer to pay for anything that takes your fancy . |
| 5 | We , on the other hand , were at that stage of life when we felt we could find time for anything that took our fancy . |
| 6 | The inhabitants were morose and suspicious , their occupations of charcoal burning and peat digging supplemented by anything that came their way . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's nice to be able to say that I saw that big right coming but Ruddock did n't , in fact I do n't think he saw anything that came his way . |
| 8 | He was all in favour of anything that kept their costs down . |
| 9 | I never wore anything that hugged my body . |
| 10 | Age : 25 Fave Labels : Everything and anything that catches her eye . |
| 11 | They suspected they would gain little from this particular endeavour , but anything that supplemented their income was worthwhile . |
| 12 | Franco interpreted as threatening anything that escaped his personal control , and by May 1941 he had begun to feel that Serrano and his collaborators were doing just that . |
| 13 | For freedom is maintained by a self-possession which extends itself to anything that threatens its identity . |
| 14 | The mercantilist , bureaucratic Peruvian government — and by extension , that of many Third World countries — has created a subtle system of economic apartheid , where the poor are legally kept from any upward social mobility while the rich legally protect themselves from anything that threatens their social standing . |
| 15 | Anything that passed my way . |
| 16 | Jo looked like a Munchkin in anything that showed her legs . |
| 17 | As regards Editing for Industry , I am satisfied the management structure and the people involved ensure that it is far and above board — I would not wish to be associated with anything that damaged my reputation or that of the Association . |
| 18 | They are luckier than , say , Merseyside , which can mobilise in defence of the equally or more hard-hit local interest only the memory of the Beatles , of generations of Scouse comedians and the proud tradition of its rival football teams , while taking care to keep away from anything that reminds its inhabitants too obviously of the divisive colours Orange and Green . |
| 19 | Underline , use colour-coding for highlighting — do anything that makes your notes more lively , vivid and memorable . |
| 20 | At any rate , anything that makes Your Majesty 's subjects more conscious of their unity and of their duty to each other seems to me to be a real gain . |
| 21 | Thus a person who has no regular trading relations with the parties can provide the Reds with their ordinary requirement of food while remaining narrowly neutral , or refuse to sell them anything that improves their position and be comprehensively neutral . |
| 22 | Magic swords are a good investment because anything that improves your hand-to-hand fighting abilities is a good idea . |
| 23 | After the last couple of times , she 's not going to turn up for anything that has my name attached to it . |
| 24 | As the same time , the left-wing sympathies of Brent Council allowed the inverted nazism of Radical Librarianship free rein to withdraw ( i.e. censor ) anything that offended its sensibilities . |
| 25 | By 1969 Laura was spending much of her time poring over old books — the endpapers of novels were a rich source of small prints as were old plates , teapots , and patchwork quilts , in fact anything that caught her eye in a variety of odd shops . |
| 26 | ‘ If there was anything that caught his ear , he would tell everyone to be quiet and listen , and then fling himself about to the music . |
| 27 | If there was ever a classic is about the laziest bastard on this side of Christendom and he and he he would n't do anything that supports your business at all |
| 28 | The poet says : ‘ I 've no time for the exclusiveness of high culture , anything that excludes my people . |