Example sentences of "anything [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace was uncertain whether or not to say anything that might disturb his concentration more than the noise outside did . |
| 2 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 3 | I refuse to hear anything that might disrupt my own plans . |
| 4 | Your parents are legally responsible for you and one of them ought to know about anything that might affect your health , either emotionally or physically . |
| 5 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Both Father and Mother had been through difficult times financially in their twenties but Father had founded a fine family business in London which flourished and while both of them were wise and sensible about money there was never any lack of it and funds were available for anything that would widen our horizons and education . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 10 | She went into the hall , glad of anything that would take her mind from Dana for a few minutes . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Anything that will improve their quality of life . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He could n't afford anything that could blunt his instincts . |
| 15 | But so far — and this may be what you 're driving at — we have n't found evidence of anything that could explain her murder . ’ |