Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose , ’ he asked without any real hope , ‘ she did n't mention to you anything about anonymous letters ? ’ |
| 2 | In the living room Bruce said he asked about any old china she might have had . |
| 3 | She always observed every move he made out of the corner of one eye , though , and if he stirred in any way , even just to stretch or yawn , she would immediately react and flex herself to take defensive action . |
| 4 | He appealed to any member of the public who had been in the neighbourhood of the deceased 's home at the critical time to come forward . |
| 5 | Inspector Graham Cox , of Sussex police , said the cause of the accident was still being investigated and he appealed for any witnesses to come forward . |
| 6 | Since he disapproved of any English links with Europe as much as he disapproved of links with Wales or Scotland , his world view seemed somewhat restricted . |
| 7 | The only thing he recognised with any surety was intense desire , so intense that the vague awareness at the back of his mind of something wrong was stifled . |
| 8 | ‘ Hong Kong until I was six , then boarding-school in England , ’ he replied without any attempt to conceal how bored he felt . |
| 9 | ‘ You wo n't if you do n't get back to her , ’ he remarked without any inflection of interest . |
| 10 | We all reckon that being as the prize for lowest weight was a year on the Cambridge Diet he fished without any bait at all on the hook . |
| 11 | WGOL supported Dave by financing the jump and we are pleased to report that he survived without any broken bones ! |
| 12 | The rationale of the putting-out system was that it enabled the merchant capitalist to draw on only as much labour as he needed at any given condition of the market . |
| 13 | He reached into any dip of information for enlightenment on the customs and manners of the people of Oceania . |
| 14 | When engaged in writing the naval history of the war , he had of course accumulated more material , both British and German , than he was ever able to use ; and one day over coffee at Cambridge I asked if he knew of any naval occasion of the Second World War which had not yet been told and which , in his view , ought to be . |
| 15 | He knew beyond any shadow of doubt that his own contribution to the hospital was worth infinitely more than that of a hundred Kegans . |
| 16 | It was partly a gift for adaptability , partly a sense of fun or interest that he brought to any situation . |
| 17 | In all this writing the emphasis was usually very heavily , as in the past , on the obligation of the diplomat to defend jealously the honour of the sovereign he represented against any claim , any change in ceremonial , which might be construed as the slightest threat to it . |
| 18 | But Uncle Mick was still , even at seventy , a man to be reckoned with and he managed without any great effort to intimidate the group or at least deflect their more sinister intentions . |
| 19 | He died before any surgeons could reach him . |
| 20 | He welcomed the opportunity to move to a British company and he felt in any case that eight years was probably long enough at the top of any major company . |
| 21 | Billy Sullivan was very polite and proper , if a blasphemer , but he had used the wicked words with passion , unable to express just what he felt in any other way . |
| 22 | HEARTS ' John Robertson yesterday spoke up for all the members of Scotland 's impromptu squad to face Germany when he railed against any suggestion that the side who will tonight take on the world champions at Ibrox is made up of ‘ second class citizens ’ . |
| 23 | He looked like any Irishman . |
| 24 | Heavier than the others , excitable , he reacted to any given situation with sudden outbursts of what he then felt was a Sheikhly authoritarianism . |
| 25 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 26 | Of Burke 's politics Johnson believed , as he did of any political opponent , that honesty deserted him when embroiled politically , only to return when engaged conversationally or intellectually . |
| 27 | Curtis was at that time Assistant Colonial Secretary of the Transvaal and he was not motivated in what he did by any particular animus towards Indians . |
| 28 | I was usually summoned by telephone and invited round to Downing Street at 8 p.m. , when Wilson would be alone in the Cabinet room , which he preferred to any office or study , and where , sitting at the long Cabinet table , I often found myself in the seat normally occupied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and enjoyed moments of brief delusional glory ! |
| 29 | The marshal 's reception of the news was predictably sour , but he refrained from any overt suggestion that Thiercelin had been at fault , possibly because he accepted some share of the blame himself . |
| 30 | From time to time , almost absent-mindedly , he reached into his pocket and produced a sweet , which he gave to any small boy who happened to be near . |