Example sentences of "anyone [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two reports remain the source of almost all the information about the eruption ; the Royal Society in particular went to great lengths to amass every possible scrap of information and even inserted a notice in The Times requesting anyone who had seen or heard anything to come forward . |
| 2 | One of the notebook crowd climbed aboard and came into the dining car , inviting anyone who had seen anyone or anything suspicious the previous evening to please unbutton , but of course no one had , or no one was saying , because otherwise the whole train would have known about it by now . |
| 3 | DS Tony Bull , of Clacton CID , said police officers were anxious to hear from anyone who had seen anything at the premises between about 7.45pm on Sunday and 7.30am on Monday . |
| 4 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls . |
| 6 | He soon became employed as an informer for the police , spying on people and telling the police about anyone who had broken the law . |
| 7 | She lost her way ; new fiats had been built across roads marked in the A to Z , and it was difficult to find anyone who had heard of Leominster Gardens . |
| 8 | She could hardly bear to think the thought , but it did seem to her that anyone who had lived for so many years with her mother could be excused for a certain lack of joie de vivre . |
| 9 | With the placing valuing the company at £153m , anyone who had invested £100 found it suddenly worth £4,000 . |
| 10 | A spokesman for North Yorkshire police said officers still wanted to hear from anyone who had invested money with Mr Finnegan 's companies . |
| 11 | Her father was kindness itself , but he was the sort of man who gave little credit to anyone who had fallen from grace . |
| 12 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 13 | On Friday , though , Alesi had been the top man as he claimed the overnight pole , but he lost any chance of keeping it with a wall-bashing incident , which came as no surprise to anyone who had watched his outrageously extrovert efforts . |
| 14 | On Oct. 30 a controversial measure giving blanket immunity to anyone who had committed a politically motivated crime before Oct. 8 , 1990 [ see p. 39037 ] was approved by the President 's Council and thus became law , despite its having been rejected on Oct. 20 by the House of Delegates , the Indian chamber of the tricameral parliament . |
| 15 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 16 | Anyone who had read Hans Christian Andersen 's ‘ The Little Mermaid ’ would know that they did not and could not — not unless they married a mortal , as with Lúthien . |
| 17 | Anyone who had read Beckett , or Shakespeare , found the unclouded assumption that birth was an unadulterated blessing disturbing . |
| 18 | But anyone who had read more than a little crime fiction will know that in fact the two often go together . |
| 19 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 20 | Mr Palios advised anyone who had paid deposits or paid for uncompleted work on credit to write to Cork Gully at 6 Minshull Street , Manchester . |
| 21 | The significance of the support for the Southwark [ sic ] theologians which flooded in from left-wing humanists , will not be lost on anyone who had learned , the hard way , that these people , who reject all concept of man as a child of God both for themselves and everyone else , make common ground with soft permissives wherever they can find them — in or out of the Church . |
| 22 | Under the basic criteria for the restoration of Latvian citizenship and naturalization , approved by the Supreme Council by 93 votes to 30 with seven abstentions , citizenship would be granted automatically to anyone who had held Latvian citizenship before 1940 ( the start of Soviet occupation ) , and to their descendants , even if they were not currently resident in Latvia . |
| 23 | And since , as Mr Lawrence says , there could hardly be anything personal in the attack , we 're left with the probability that anyone who had happened along at that moment would have been dealt with in the same way . |
| 24 | Anyone who had had that knew a bit about the Treasury and knew a little bit about fighting back and working round them and all the rest of it and of giving orders direct to the Chancellor and saying , ‘ Look , this is what we must have ’ , and then getting the Cabinet to back it , so that it was harder for the Treasury to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 25 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |
| 26 | He neither claimed to know the butler 's name , nor anyone who had known him , but he would always insist the event occurred just as he told it . |
| 27 | She sat in the drawing-room and received all the callers , genuinely grateful for any tribute to Aunt Emily although there seemed to be , among all the people who came so punctiliously , hardly anyone who had known her really well . |
| 28 | In 1958 Ken 's star was rising faster than anyone who had known him could have thought possible . |
| 29 | I did feel that , by the end of the work , the language had remained a little over-simplistic , perhaps patronisingly so , to anyone who had worked through all the processes involved in this weighty work . |
| 30 | Anyone who 'd paid money for their dog , or did n't know where it had been , should take it to the god in Lāmri to be blessed and cured : and if anyone had been bitten recently , or had been in contact with the rabid dog , they too should see that god . |