Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely showed any emotion , even when people presented him with the most heart-felt outpourings of their fears and hopes . |
| 2 | He rarely paid any attention to the plays progressing below him . |
| 3 | He apparently reckoned any pressure would n't be effective . |
| 4 | Well , he generally caused any aggravation that was floating around , but he would never admit it . |
| 5 | How the fuck he ever managed any side I do nt know . |
| 6 | Did he ever use any violence on the child towards the child ? |
| 7 | He hardly took any notice of me . |
| 8 | I said to him , ‘ Great shot , Nick , ’ but he hardly showed any emotion . |
| 9 | The only people he really feels any curiosity about are his listeners — ’ |
| 10 | He initially denied any knowledge of Symons 's business affairs , but later admitted knowing that he was involved in a business emigration scheme aimed at attracting Asian investors to the Marshall Islands . |
| 11 | But he again denied any knowledge of Washington 's plans to swap arms to Iran for hostages . |
| 12 | He therefore repudiated any attempt to begin the painful separation of an ‘ authentic ’ from a ‘ false ’ , orthodox or official Marxism , choosing rather to stress the ambivalence of Marxism itself . |
| 13 | Perhaps he had been stupid , but had he actually done any damage ? |
| 14 | Now , now you were saying before your father er was unemployed quite a lot of the time during your childhood erm did he actually get any Unemployment Benefit while he was on the dole ? |
| 15 | Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 16 | But he never had any money — Will always paid for the beer . |
| 17 | And er so he never had any sleep that night , well that was the that 's a story about them days . |
| 18 | And he never had any hesitation in using his reputation to reach the most unapproachable people personally if he thought that conservation would benefit as a result . |
| 19 | The nature of the obligation is simply that of an obligation to repay money which has been received and it is neither necessary nor logical , simply because the conditions of repayment relate to the performance of covenants in a lease , that the transfer of the reversion should create in the transferee an additional and co-extensive obligation to pay money which he has never received and in which he never had any interest or that the assignment of the term should vest in the assignee the right to receive a sum which he has never paid … |
| 20 | Certainly he never made any secret of his Conservative past , having twice stood unsuccessfully for parliament among the miners of County Durham , where his air of a slightly lost rural dean can hardly have been an asset . |
| 21 | ‘ I also had to give up my part-time Communications course which the Jo'burg job was paying for , because the salary in Durban was much lower and my parents could n't help me when it was all they could do to meet Dad 's medical expenses , since he never made any sort of provision for the future . |
| 22 | he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility . |
| 23 | ‘ Much too fast and he never takes any notice when I tell him to go slower , so I do my knitting . |
| 24 | Consequently he never achieved any position of responsibility . |
| 25 | She 's mentioned frequently but he never gives any clue as to who she is or the nature of their relationship . ’ |
| 26 | In spite of all the exercise Signor Grignaffini took on his bicycle he never lost any weight : food and wine were too great a temptation for him . |
| 27 | According to Notker the Stammerer ( whose Deeds of Charlemagne , written at St-Gall in the 880s , reveals much of the workings of ninth-century government ) , " Charlemagne was very prudent … he never gave any count more than one estate at a time … unless there were special reasons for doing so . |
| 28 | Maisy was a spinster , and appreciated cider almost as much as Sooty ‘ Silly old bugger , ’ muttered Knocker , ‘ but he never makes any trouble , so what can I do ? ’ |
| 29 | He never needed any encouragement in these moral quests , and my guess is that the recent favourable publicity about him means we will be hearing a great deal more of the Preacher from Plains . |