Example sentences of "anything that would [vb infin] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're moving , ’ said Masklin , still peering out of the hole and almost glad of anything that would stop the argument . |
| 2 | He did n't know what , just anything that would settle the unease he felt about the death . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I would welcome anything that would improve the legislation . |
| 5 | A true friend would not do anything that would enable the disease to continue but would instead take the difficult and risky path of totally confronting it , while still loving the sufferer , despite all the harshness that the disease will cause the sufferer to throw in return . |
| 6 | Anything that would grab the eye was jammed together to make the page frantically busy . |