Example sentences of "anything [conj] [modal v] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By middle age I had discovered that everything I wanted to do , every attitude I announced , every desire I expressed , anything that might give me joy appeared to contradict the wishes of someone else . |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't like anything that might give someone the idea to stick a poor fish in beer . |
| 3 | With several newly qualified teachers and many more awaiting initiation , they literally ‘ Swung ’ all over the place — adult institutes , local church halls , fetes , in fact in or on anything that would give them a few square feet of space ; one Essex teacher even did a two year S-T-R-E-T-C-H in H.M Prison , Holloway and got time off for good behaviour ( a class of course ! ) . |
| 4 | Anything that would give him his bearings again . |
| 5 | Even so , I thought it was worth persisting , trying to get her to remember noises , smells , anything that would give us a clue to where they were taken . |
| 6 | All morning the world 's top cyclists will have been reconnoitring the course , selecting their gear ratios and the most suitable of their many bikes , looking at the route for the best way through corners , testing the strength and direction of the wind — looking for anything that will give them that little extra in this first trial of strength , which will be clocked in tenths and hundredths of a second . |