Example sentences of "[verb] anything that [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must never ever do anything that might make them fight . |
| 2 | I 'm a pretty perceptive person , I understand people quite well , but I never dreamt that my mother could do anything that would damage my daughter so greatly . |
| 3 | Editor , — Allyson M Pollock and Azeem Majeed 's arguments in response to our editorial on consultant episodes could perhaps be summarised as ‘ the internal market is intrinsically flawed and we should not do anything that would delay its demise . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I still think you 're totally wrong , but I 'd never do anything that could endanger you — or the club . ’ |
| 5 | I refuse to hear anything that might disrupt my own plans . |
| 6 | ‘ We do n't like anything that might give someone the idea to stick a poor fish in beer . |
| 7 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 8 | It was dangerous , too , to appear too over-confident , or to do anything that might provoke him into making his unofficial fatwa slightly more public than it was already . |
| 9 | ‘ The Government is pinning its hopes for economic recovery on the housing market , so it would n't want to do anything that would snuff it out , ’ said Mike Simpson , Suffolk spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 10 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 11 | First , the hon. Gentleman is terrified of saying anything that would upset his trade union paymasters ; secondly , he is afraid to do anything that would remind the electorate of the chains that bind his party to those paymasters — the bosses of the trade unions . |
| 12 | As subject , Edmund acts for himself , doing anything that will advance him : Goneril and Regan live by the same principle . |
| 13 | There were nights when , hearing him start at three or four in the morning , she would have welcomed anything that would let him stop and rest-paregoric , a sugar-tit , any of those wicked things . |
| 14 | And if you thought you had a fight last year over bi-annual congresses , you wait until you try and do anything that will affect our structure in the future . |
| 15 | He could n't afford anything that could blunt his instincts . |
| 16 | Ace was uncertain whether or not to say anything that might disturb his concentration more than the noise outside did . |
| 17 | Nobody in this much bull-shitted century has achieved anything that can outlast what the men who laid out these stones did here . |
| 18 | Since her death he had never wanted to touch anything that might remind him of her . |
| 19 | My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot . |
| 20 | Do n't do or say anything that might upset him . ’ |
| 21 | No detractor however imaginative or ingenious could find anything that would pain him or put him out of countenance . |
| 22 | ‘ None of us could find anything that would shift it however much elbow grease we used . |
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