Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all this in the headlines daily there was no hope of preventing gossip ; Aunt Rose would not normally have considered imparting any personal information to a servant , but she was concerned to protect the children from the truth until they were judged ready . |
| 2 | Slides prepared with this method appear to be more reliable than those made using any previous method , including Tarkowski 's ( 30 ) , in respect of the spreading and maintenance of chromosomes ( 32 ) . |
| 3 | In the High Court and county courts express provision is made allowing any party to apply to the court for different directions , a provision which should not be overlooked , particularly given the new provisions for early exchange of witness statements , if there is good reason for departing from the normal rule ( see RSC Ord 25 , r8(3) , CCR Ord 17 , r11(4) ) . |
| 4 | Clearly , the above technique may be applied using any linear combination of the Killing vectors . |
| 5 | One of my characters owns a cafe but I wo n't be seen peeling any spuds . ’ |
| 6 | Ah well I ai n't , I ai n't bothered getting any videos recently , I just have n't . |
| 7 | Although subjected to heavy pressure from abolitionists , most of them on their own benches , the Labour Government had avoided giving any commitment on the future of the death penalty . |
| 8 | But the mayor had studiously avoided endorsing any of the old pols running . |
| 9 | The Ambassador replied that he realized that no statement could be made on this subject and he himself had avoided making any such statement which he felt might prove embarrassing . |
| 10 | A lot of our discussion so far has been concerned with this kind of " saying " , but I have purposely avoided introducing any of the technical jargon of semiotics ( the theory of signs ) and this is now leading me into difficulty because the ordinary use of words in social anthropological discourse is crudely imprecise . |
| 11 | Because of the nature of the allegations and counter-allegations it would be necessary for all the children to be subjected to psychiatric examination : the Official Solicitor recognises this but has postponed arranging any such examination pending the result of this appeal . |
| 12 | Some farmers have been so convinced by industry-generated publicity over the absence of a proper income that they just have n't bothered declaring any income . |
| 13 | ‘ He began rejecting his friends and stopped doing any exercise . |
| 14 | and we 'd had it that long and er it 's stopped having any |
| 15 | Pippo continued to bother us , though we had long since stopped taking any notice of him , and the Allied air attacks continued . |
| 16 | I have , by and large , already stopped taking any notice . " |
| 17 | The Gosford House has now stopped distributing any further tickets and plan to make another draw for the Mini Cooper next Saturday night . |
| 18 | Several top OTC dealers at one stage virtually ceased selling any stock but the riskiest and least promising . |
| 19 | To stay in the Yugoslav federation would have meant surrendering any political power to an authoritarian , corrupt and nationalist administration in Belgrade . |
| 20 | Until now , at least publicly , the society has played down the level of anxiety ; it has resisted taking any action that could be seen as anti-government . |
| 21 | Have you ever tried hammering any metals ? |
| 22 | But according to John Nelson , the tape he examined could not have been recorded using any scanning equipment and was the result of a bug on an ordinary telephone . |
| 23 | But according to John Nelson , the tape he examined could not have been recorded using any scanning equipment and was the result of a bug on an ordinary telephone . |
| 24 | In April Iraq had denied possessing any biological weapons [ see p. 38164 ] . |
| 25 | With this scene of confusion before his eyes it seems unlikely that he would have contemplated using any wheeled transport , even supposing that it had been available for his use at the time . |
| 26 | The sufferer is , of course , the chargee , not the company , ; hence the provision previously mentioned allowing any person having an interest in the charge to register it . |