Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] any [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’ |
| 2 | BMC General Secretary Derek Walker would not speculate on the outcome of these meetings , adding : ‘ It would be wrong for me to pre-empt any decision of the Management Committee . |
| 3 | it is true that it is currently harder for me to get any kind of sympathetic press coverage in this country than it is anywhere else in Europe . ’ |
| 4 | Only problem was , and far be it for me to dampen any thrashing of another team , was that Wimbledon were allowed to play for a good bit in the second half and could have come back . |
| 5 | According to his account to the House of Commons , Baldwin replied : ‘ Sir , that is most grievous news , and it is impossible for me to make any comment on it today . ’ |
| 6 | Its opponents included 105 Republicans led by the House Minority Whip , Newt Gingrich , most of whom opposed any increases in taxation , while the Democrats opposed cuts in benefits and services . |
| 7 | Despite Knox 's fulminations against ‘ that cruel tyrant and unmerciful hypocrite ’ , the archbishop of St Andrews , and the ‘ woman born to dissemble and deceive ’ , Mary of Guise , it was in fact an act quite out of character of both archbishop and regent , neither of whom showed any taste for persecution . |
| 8 | Our only means of escape is alcohol , and I keep off that pretty much ; but I ca n't say I blame chaps for getting drunk ( apart from the fact that it does n't do you any good ) , for few of them take any interest in books . |
| 9 | None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour . |
| 10 | By contrast , when adults were accompanying children , during a similar three-minute period , less than half of them had any communication at all with their children ; and in two-fifths of the pairs ‘ what took place was negative ’ . |
| 11 | Margaret tried them all , but none of them had any help for her . |
| 12 | Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes . |
| 13 | None of them shed any tears over Riddle . ’ |
| 14 | Harry felt as if he had heard or read them all before , in one form or another , and none of them shed any light on what had struck Mrs Diamond as ‘ not right ’ : |
| 15 | None of them raised any matter of substance and I need not consider them further . |
| 16 | Had any of them made any approaches to her ? |
| 17 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 18 | None of them took any notice of Darwin , but the feathers and fossils aroused mild interest . |
| 19 | The men in the Toms family support each other a great deal ; none of them show any disapproval of Sandy 's lifestyle . |
| 20 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 21 | Neither of them paid any heed to the poor old grand-father , who had to tend the sacred fire all on his own . |
| 22 | However , neither of them makes any reference to her husband , or to the dynamics of her marriage relationship in these comments , though Norma Larkin makes some ( implicit ) observations about marriage in general . |
| 23 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 24 | Although the majority submit willingly to this process , very few of them have any choice in the matter . |
| 25 | At one end of the chain there is a quantum mechanically uncertain electron ; at the other a dependable pointer or equally reliable observer , neither of which exhibits any uncertainty in its behaviour . |
| 26 | The first is the extent to which constituents of opaque expressions are ‘ full ’ semantic indicators : clearly blackbird , with two full indicators , is less opaque than ladybird , with one partial indicator only ( — bird ) , which in turn is less opaque than red herring or in a brown study , neither of which contains any indicators at all . |
| 27 | ‘ None of which has any relevance to you , ’ said the woman , ‘ but it 's nice and polite of you to listen . ’ |
| 28 | Winterbottom , who normally prefers to let his contributions on the field do the talking for him , said yesterday : ‘ The Quins get stick from everyone , little of which has any relation to fact . |
| 29 | It is set at the junction of four minor lanes , none of which has any indications of antiquity . |
| 30 | A planning refusal does not of itself confer any right to compensation . |