Example sentences of "anything that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus he had an inherent antipathy to the idea that law , even Church law , canon law , could achieve anything that was good for the Church . |
| 2 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 3 | ‘ Ahh , ’ said Vladislaw , happy to call anything that was edible , beef . |
| 4 | And anything that was eaten in my mother 's house was either home grown or home baked . ’ |
| 5 | Bob Bennett was a typical Cockney with a dry sense of humour , who had volunteered for anything that was going just to get away from the parade-ground atmosphere of the Grenadier Guards . |
| 6 | She was careful to show no interest whatever in anything that was shown to her . |
| 7 | Given the extreme paucity of provision in the past , to close rather than merely narrow the gap between white education provision and that of other racially defined groups would require an investment well beyond anything that was envisaged before the 1990s . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , whatever was that ? ’ she used to cry , sitting down with a thump on anything that was handy , whenever one of them exploded within hearing . |
| 9 | Ella never missed anything that was said in the kitchen . |
| 10 | ‘ Has anyone asked anything that was different , or surprised you ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I thought it would be more amateur , ’ she kept saying , obviously surprised that I could be involved in anything that was n't a total failure . |
| 12 | One was the Perfect Connection side , all hi-tech rackmount gear for that type of player , and Metaltronix for the heads and cabs side — anything that was large ! |
| 13 | ‘ I can see that , but I do n't think there was ever anything that was obviously not playable by a human ! |
| 14 | Anything that was n't like that , though , Dave would handle all the rhythms and I 'm really glad that we did that this time because it allowed us each to focus in on what we were doing — me on my solos and Dave on the rhythms . |
| 15 | I would n't describe anything that was not what I had gone through and understood myself — in my experience or out of my imagination and other people 's words would n't do . |
| 16 | It was inconceivable that she could take from Mrs Barnet anything that was rightly hers , nor did Ruth flatter herself that Joss Barnet 's interest in her was anything but transient . |
| 17 | And Margery 's visions outdid in splendour anything that was narrated ‘ in either Hylton 's book or Bride 's book , or Stimulus Amoris , or Incendium Amoris , or any other that she ever heard read ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ We went into this basement and smashed up loads of glasses , tables , chairs — anything that was in the room — and recorded it , ’ whispers bearded , bass-playing vocalist Neil . |
| 19 | ‘ It still sounds weird to me , it still does n't sound like anything that was released at the time , ’ Albini declares . |
| 20 | This was Bill Erlich versus Colin Tuck , and anything that was personal in an investigation was going to be a bloody nuisance . |
| 21 | In previous sessions , Mr E had already shown himself , through his constant ‘ yes , but … ’ interjections , as the group 's resident ‘ butter-in ’ , breezily polite but seemingly unable to accept that anything that was being suggested would work . |
| 22 | Ford was unwilling to apply such sanctions as were available to him , and ‘ showed no proclivity for arm twisting , or for that matter for doing anything that was likely to incur the wrath or even displeasure of another . ’ |
| 23 | I was very open-minded towards drugs then and I would try anything that was going provided that I did n't think it was too dangerous … and I did like to analyse the thing , the substances , through literature . |
| 24 | Clara did not mind the cold , for she liked anything that was not small and cramped and heartlessly cosy ; she liked the nameless multitudes that tramped mud on the cloakroom floors and left hairs in the cloakroom basins , and liked them because they were nameless , because they were not her mother and Alan and Arthur . |
| 25 | Well I do n't know it 's just what we liked at the time you know , we liked anything that was considered a bit way out then , you know |
| 26 | they actually put forward some proposals , whereby what do you call him withdrew the clause and wrote another one which negated anything that was said before ? |
| 27 | Yes he did n't like me to make , he liked , he did n't like me to anything that was going to upset me . |
| 28 | You had a turn out then and I think it lasted till the next spring , not like taking curtains up and down like people do now and hoover for the carpets , course the carpet would be taken out and beaten as you as you know , they were n't they were slung onto a line and beaten with anything that was handy . |
| 29 | Erm you could n't put erm anything that was you know more than a small pedal bin size . |
| 30 | They were no more secretive or abashed than the soldier ants would have been , gnashing their way through anything that was organic , their collective mind unclouded by doubt , guilt or the smallest hint of compunction . |