Example sentences of "anyone [Wh pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon did well after that but made a pretence of simple good luck to anyone who questioned his apparent good fortune . |
| 2 | Ba pe was sacked from the Cabinet early in May : Aung San told the public that his Ministers ‘ enjoyed an untarnished reputation for incorruptibility and honesty of purpose [ and ] should not be made to suffer on account of anyone who strayed from the path ’ . |
| 3 | The travellers were not told why the military had cordoned off part of Salisbury Plain and were arresting anyone who strayed into the exclusion zone . |
| 4 | Drunken ‘ yobs ’ being sick , threatening anyone who objects and standing on seats are common . |
| 5 | Anyone who wanders into the fissured terrain of energy economics will before long encounter Keepin and Kats , from the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado . |
| 6 | This rather authoritarian form of elitism was usually defended by an appeal to the ‘ sensitive ’ or ‘ discriminating ’ reader ; anyone who read closely and intelligently enough would be bound to agree with Leavis 's judgement . |
| 7 | Yet anyone who read the popular literature on the subject from the 50s found a massive denunciation of the welfare state which was blamed solely on the growing decline in parental responsibility . |
| 8 | Under New York law , anyone who contracts for the story of a person accused or convicted of a crime must deposit the proceeds of the contract with a Crime Victims Compensation Board . |
| 9 | Anyone who suspects they might have bad breath can check by looking at their tongue . |
| 10 | She had never met anyone who expressed her opinions so convincingly and who was so unfailingly wrong about everything as Evelyn . |
| 11 | The Willis Bill , which is due for a second reading in the House of Lords on 6 May , says that anyone who sells , distributes or otherwise manes available am machine capable of reproducing a sound recording or cinematograph film shall be deemed to have authorised infringement of the copyright , in a sound recording or film Although the Bill has little chance of getting any further it will achieve one aim — to generate publicity for the record and film industry 's call for a tax or levy on blank audio and video tape . |
| 12 | So although the law is mainly directed at shopkeepers , it could also be applied to anyone who sells or gives a young person a sniffable product . |
| 13 | Anyone who sells them is thoroughly evil and should be sent to prison immediately ! ’ she added forcefully . |
| 14 | Anyone who ignores the spectrum of Mozart 's wit and limits his interest to faecal parlance is bound to misdiagnose his personality . |
| 15 | It 's the very first stage and anyone who ignores this aspect of the hobby , will spend no end of lovely days pottering about on river banks but will never be rewarded with a good show of colour ( gold ) in their pan . |
| 16 | The CAA recently received a communication from the French Director of Civil Aviation advising that a British pilot who was alleged to have infringed height regulations while on a private flight over France was banned from acting as a crew member on any aircraft operating within airspace under French sovereignty for one year — inconvenient for a PPL keen on touring , potentially disastrous for anyone who flies for his living . |
| 17 | MADCAP Mick Grimmer plans to eat thirty cloves of garlic and breathe on anyone who refuses to give to an RAF charity at Mansfield , Notts . |
| 18 | They claim ‘ AT&T 's real motivation is to harass and to attempt to intimidate a potential competitor ’ and ‘ to maintain a monopoly of the Unix System market by suing anyone who refuses to tithe to them . ’ |
| 19 | It follows , too , for anyone who refuses to believe that universalizability is a necessary element in the meaning of ‘ ought ’ as opposed to the meaning of ‘ all ’ , that such a normative system , replete with content flowing from the ‘ millenary labour ’ of many heads , hearts and hands , constantly in flux , but also sufficiently determinate to guide conduct , may be regarded as a socially valid positive system of morality . |
| 20 | He says all the men have agreed to take it , and anyone who refuses may be the man . |
| 21 | Tragically she never chose anyone who cared to respond . |
| 22 | He also held public meetings to discuss the concept of past-life regression , at which he would play to anyone who cared to listen the taped recordings of his experimental sessions . |
| 23 | John Major officially revealed last week that the head of MI6 is Sir Colin McColl , a fact that anyone who cared already knew . |
| 24 | Leaning out of it the figure of Charlie Chaplin waved to anyone who cared to look up , frozen forever in that pose . |
| 25 | She woke in the half-gloom of early morning to find her body slicked with sweat and all the bedclothes flung off , her nightdress in such a tangle that the soft creamy skin of her thighs was exposed to anyone who cared to look . |
| 26 | And as early as the fifth game of the league campaign , following defeat at Distillery , Mr B told anyone who cared to listen that ‘ Linfield 's league title hopes were slipping away ’ . |
| 27 | Julia thought that she had never before met anyone who exuded such restless strength and yet could be so gentle in his dealings with other people . |
| 28 | In fact , she had never known anyone who exuded such arrogant , confident masculinity , such a strong conviction of his own superiority and worth . |
| 29 | As Pottz said , ‘ Anyone who paddles out at big Pipe and says he 's not scared is either lying or crazy . ’ |
| 30 | The pack was released each night after ten o'clock curfew , after which time anyone who disobeyed orders and remained outside the safety of the house , did so at their own peril . |