Example sentences of "anything that [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you know the type of this you 're looking for , then you can get free use of paper , stamps and a telephone , in fact anything that 'll get you that ideal position . |
| 2 | His first impulse was to throw it away , to rid himself of anything that might link him with Maidstone and Maidstone 's death . |
| 3 | Ace was uncertain whether or not to say anything that might disturb his concentration more than the noise outside did . |
| 4 | She must never ever do anything that might make them fight . |
| 5 | We are afraid of the new , of anything that might make us grow or change . ’ |
| 6 | If , in defence of your own attitudes , you do n't wish to examine them and believe that they are fixed , it 's not worth exposing yourself and listening to anything that might make you think differently . |
| 7 | The parents are quick to seize on anything that might suggest we use boys as unpaid labour . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ We do n't like anything that might give someone the idea to stick a poor fish in beer . |
| 11 | I refuse to hear anything that might disrupt my own plans . |
| 12 | Since her death he had never wanted to touch anything that might remind him of her . |
| 13 | Exorcising ghosts , no memories , it all has to be cleansed of anything that might remind him , no shadows of personality to be left behind like a coat on a hook , no toothbrush in a glass like a withered flower . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 16 | Do n't do or say anything that might upset him . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Names ; a name ; anything that might save you , Cameron , ’ McDunn says patiently . |
| 18 | If you DO video anything that might interest us call our Newsdesk on 0235-554123 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Using small bits of foam or anything that would stop it getting in there . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ! ) . |
| 24 | Anything that would give him his bearings again . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | No detractor however imaginative or ingenious could find anything that would pain him or put him out of countenance . |
| 28 | ‘ None of us could find anything that would shift it however much elbow grease we used . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |