Example sentences of "one [verb] anything " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , has any , has any one got anything they want to bring up ? |
| 2 | ‘ You 're the only one bringing anything into your house ? ’ |
| 3 | It was tense and frustrating , but no one expected anything less . |
| 4 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 5 | I mean no one noticed anything unusual about her and she seemed to be full of plans for the wedding . ’ |
| 6 | But — could one do anything with it — if you found it ? |
| 7 | In the summer men can wear shorts or whatever they like ( and sometimes they look revolting in them , too ! ) and no one says anything to them about it . |
| 8 | There is no sound on the moon , but this does n't matter because there is no one to hear anything . |
| 9 | The effect of marriage between cousins is to secure and maintain the boundaries of the kin group and the resources which it controls , by ensuring that no one takes anything out of the kin group when they marry , and that strangers are not introduced ( Tillion , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | Well a fairly typical one excludes anything which is faulty as a result of negligence or bad workmanship . |
| 11 | All I really remember is the kids crying and no one doing anything about it . ‘ |
| 12 | It puts perhaps a kind face on things : but sometimes families do just get into dreadful muddles , with no one doing anything particularly awful . |
| 13 | But no one knew anything about engagements for Igor and Alla . |
| 14 | Both Labour and Conservative Governments had taken the view that change would cause a fierce political storm , so no one did anything . |
| 15 | He explains that , ‘ For many years no one did anything for art in Barcelona . |
| 16 | Enter ex-hockey star D B Sweeney , rough-edged , cynical , not one to take anything sliding across the rink on his backside . |
| 17 | This was a trick question , because of course no one does anything like that to themselves ; both of Boy 's eyes were as black and blue as if he was still wearing yesterday 's makeup . |
| 18 | No one does anything to help me . ’ |
| 19 | It 's absolutely ludicrous that it 's not advertised and that no one does anything about it . |
| 20 | Suddenly , no one had anything to say . |
| 21 | The simple organizational structure of the army and the short careers of its officer corps meant that no one had anything more than the most rudimentary administrative skills . |
| 22 | ‘ They must have known that leases were in the pipeline but no one said anything to me . ’ |
| 23 | Just because no one said anything does n't mean that you went unnoticed . |
| 24 | No one said anything . |
| 25 | But there 's nothing wrong with the spelling , and no one said anything about limping as he wrote . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ No one said anything about stealing a plane , ’ said Masklin quickly . |
| 27 | No one said anything . |
| 28 | No one said anything . |
| 29 | He looked from face to face , but no one said anything . |
| 30 | No one moved ; no one said anything . |