Example sentences of "[conj] anything [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ What would you do if you were going with someone and you liked them but you did n't love them or anything but you were only really going with them because if you did n't you 'd get so much heat … ’
2 The path was bumpy in places , and sent her up from the saddle and down again violently , but she did n't pause to think about bruises or anything but getting to the bridge before the van .
3 You do n't think you 've killed him or severed his spine or anything but , if you have , that ca n't be helped .
4 There was one towards the end that was very slow , very simple , very sad , but so beautiful beyond words or drawing or anything but music , beautiful there in the moonlight .
5 summer house , yeah , yeah , and he 's got a patio outside , did n't , it 's a only a patio it 's nothing , it 's not covered in or anything but there 's steps up to it and that and , and that 's it , he 's got nothing in his garden , it 's lawn and
6 Yeah sometimes when Rosemary was here , we did n't have any bother or anything but now and again somebody , she did their hair at the time
7 Extremely , you know I mean if , if it had been checked over regular maybe or something like that , I do n't know how often it gets checked over or anything but you know er that gantry 's supposed to be you know , kind of really safe , so many sensors on it which are supposed to stop that from happening .
8 Carrying a rucksack or anything over your shoulder is likely to aggravate this .
9 Or anything under the sun .
10 There was no party or anything for the reopening .
11 So if anybody does patchwork knitting or makes blankets or anything for charity and they 'd like to give me a ring any time , I could give you the pattern .
12 I ca n't claim any overtime or anything for
13 Did Amanda have any food or anything for you when you got there ?
14 Do n't stuff yourself with doughnuts or chocolate , or anything to which you are unaccustomed , or indeed anything to which you are accustomed but which you might suddenly be tempted to gorge in distorted amounts .
15 You do n't have any smart pyjamas or anything to be going to stay with people .
16 The test of the usefulness of an idea is whether it contributes much or anything to meeting two dimensions of any problem :
17 Have you , have you both had to do any specific training or anything to , to get you this far ?
18 And while British filmmakers began to believe in the ‘ decline of Hollywood ’ as their guarantee that the increased popularity of their pictures would be permanent , they were n't disposed to tap the Americans on the shoulder and suggest that perhaps they should start thinking about film schools , new talents programmes , script competitions or anything of that sort .
19 ( 2 ) In sections 173 , 174 and 176 above , the expression ‘ approved duty ’ , in relation to a member of a body , means any of the following duties , that is to say — ( a ) attendance at a meeting of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; ( b ) the doing of any other thing approved by the body , or anything of a class so approved , for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; , ( c ) where , in pursuance of a duty imposed on or a power granted to the body by any enactment or instrument ( including a Royal Charter ) , he has been appointed by or on the nomination of the body to be a member of some other body prescribed for the purpose of this paragraph ( whether or not that other body falls within any of paragraphs ( ab ) to ( f ) of subsection ( 1 ) above ) , the doing of anything as a member of that other body for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of that other body .
20 She knew nothing about field forces or induction or anything of that sort .
21 ‘ It 's not chauvinism or anything of that kind , ’ Yorkshire-born Speaker Boothroyd tells me .
22 ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked .
23 ( 1890 , p. 214 ) The subject-object relation is not to be characterized as the subject 's attending to the content , or anything of the kind .
24 There are no direct debits or into building societies or anything of that sort .
25 Were there any searchlight batteries or anything of that nature in Bloxwich ?
26 ? I 'm not interested in the plot , or the characterisation , or anything of that nature — I 'm interested in the novel .
27 He was not misled or lulled into a sense of false security or anything of that kind .
28 We have no conscientious objections or anything of that kind .
29 If there were a need for a review or anything of that sort the initiative would have to come first from the Catering Sub-Committee .
30 ‘ You heard nothing — no cries of distress or anything of that sort ? ’
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