Example sentences of "anything that [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask your partner to remove spectacles , earrings , necklaces or anything that may impede the massage . |
| 2 | This is important since the brief was always to destroy anything that may leave incriminating evidence . |
| 3 | Never display anything that may tempt a thief . |
| 4 | Fanning the eggs with her fins helps to circulate aerated water over the eggs and also waft away anything that may have settled on them . |
| 5 | My judgment rests upon the view that the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |
| 6 | ‘ the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |
| 7 | " We use pretty well anything for fuel up our end , " she began , " driftwood and washed-up coke and anything that 'll burn . |
| 8 | Right Dennis n , tins of food , things like ham , fish , beans , anything tinned , packets of dried food , dried milk oh er dried herbs , jars jars of jam , marmalade anything that 'll keep , herbs and spices , games for the children and I think I said Monday , they need n't be new but ones that ne ones that do not need batteries . |
| 9 | Anything that 'll fill a skip , it 'll be a skip . |
| 10 | If you know the type of this you 're looking for , then you can get free use of paper , stamps and a telephone , in fact anything that 'll get you that ideal position . |
| 11 | Translation — with both Sega and Nintendo still locked in combat for the pre-pubescent male dollar , anything that might alienate little boys ( eg girlie games ) is still a definite no-no . |
| 12 | His first impulse was to throw it away , to rid himself of anything that might link him with Maidstone and Maidstone 's death . |
| 13 | They did n't seem prepared to say anything that might appear embarrassing or gauche later on . |
| 14 | They would be able to gallop hard away from anything that might spring out at them . |
| 15 | Ace was uncertain whether or not to say anything that might disturb his concentration more than the noise outside did . |
| 16 | Therefore , we must expect some major changes in that region in the coming years and be prepared for anything that might arise as a result . |
| 17 | When you carry out the initial survey to check just what you have got and what you want , do n't discard anything that might make a positive contribution to the garden later on . |
| 18 | She must never ever do anything that might make them fight . |
| 19 | In times of social upheaval we guard against anything that might make society fragment too precipitately and dangerously , and we try to take care that racist or intolerant literature is suppressed . |
| 20 | We are afraid of the new , of anything that might make us grow or change . ’ |
| 21 | If , in defence of your own attitudes , you do n't wish to examine them and believe that they are fixed , it 's not worth exposing yourself and listening to anything that might make you think differently . |
| 22 | Anything that might alter investor sentiment , no matter how small , will have to be announced to the Stock Exchange , displayed to everyone simultaneously on the Exchange 's Topic screens . |
| 23 | She had stolen many a glance at him since yesterday to see if perhaps there was anything that might show , but it was difficult , she did not want him to feel he was under examination , and anyway today the tired look was gone . |
| 24 | The parents are quick to seize on anything that might suggest we use boys as unpaid labour . |
| 25 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 26 | He swung away from her , walking over to the edge of the small pond , his body rigid with a tension that made her afraid to do or say anything that might unleash that anger once again . |
| 27 | By middle age I had discovered that everything I wanted to do , every attitude I announced , every desire I expressed , anything that might give me joy appeared to contradict the wishes of someone else . |
| 28 | ‘ We do n't like anything that might give someone the idea to stick a poor fish in beer . |
| 29 | ‘ Now let me have your own passports and anything that might give a clue to your true identities . ’ |
| 30 | " Somebody 's gone to a lot of trouble to remove anything that might give a clue to his identity , " Redpath said . |