Example sentences of "anything to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The substance was called ethylene chlorohydrin if that means anything to you , sir . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Angus , ’ he said , ‘ if anybody ever says anything to you , think to yourself , How can I disagree with that ? |
| 3 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 4 | Does it mean anything to most children ? |
| 5 | ‘ They must have known that leases were in the pipeline but no one said anything to me . ’ |
| 6 | In so far as Hartman 's book wants to be read as a form of fiction , one can make the adverse literary-critical point that the prose is dense and cloyingly arch , with a crooning , caressing quality about it , suggesting the tone of a man talking quietly and earnestly to himself rather than trying to communicate anything to others . |
| 7 | Company sources said yesterday that British Aerospace and Thomson , who are believed to be negotiating a joint proposal , had not yet put anything to Ferranti which counted as a firm offer . |
| 8 | The Sergeant had arranged signals with us if we happened to see anything to our front , by moving our feet and so prevent talking . |
| 9 | If they did , would the silvery dust mean anything to them ? |
| 10 | The only really important biography was that of George V by Harold Nicolson , which had been published in 1952 ; the more recent biography by Kenneth Rose adds hardly anything to it . |
| 11 | ‘ What did you want to bring anything to me for ? ’ |
| 12 | It saves wondering the next day whether Jimmy Lynch will bring anything to the house or not . ’ |
| 13 | We can say anything to each other . |
| 14 | I did n't say anything to my in-laws or my husband . |
| 15 | When I left Uganda after my marriage , my mum told me , never write anything to me about your troubles because you did n't listen to us . |
| 16 | It is all up to you — and I decided that I was never going to say anything to her because I had done it all on my own . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew I had n't done anything to Joanna and at the same time I was totally confused as to how it could have happened . ’ |
| 18 | He said lightly , ‘ Does the name McCloy mean anything to you , Mr Pertwee ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The name would n't mean anything to you . ’ |
| 20 | The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’ |
| 21 | Or , ‘ Americans will tell anything to Michael Palin . ’ |
| 22 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 23 | Berkeley , nevertheless , thought that to concede anything to materialism was to concede too much , and that any element of materialism inevitably led to scepticism and atheism . |
| 24 | She would give anything to be able to talk with him in private , but he deliberately chose a time when both of them were a home . |
| 25 | Then she would go down to his cluttered little house in South Kensington with his hundreds of contacts ( for he was clever enough never to leave anything to chance ) and he would pronounce them all ‘ Absolutely Divine , ’ but at last succeed , with supreme anguish , in selecting one or two which were even more divine than the others . |
| 26 | He hoped also that she would n't do anything to him . |
| 27 | Perhaps the ginseng had altered the balance of his Yin and Yang , which can do absolutely anything to a man . |
| 28 | He has n't done anything to you . |
| 29 | Gloria did n't pause to say anything to the cheery porter at the gates , nor did he call out to them . |
| 30 | We could say anything to each other — trying out ideas , talking over the happenings in our small world — and know that we were safe : there would be no teasing in public , no knowing glances , no betrayals . |