Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Only a few of them have any idea what it is like for school to be a persistent diet of boredom , incomprehension and failure . |
| 5 | Although the majority submit willingly to this process , very few of them have any choice in the matter . |
| 6 | Few of us felt any sympathy for them , because apart from the beatings which we had received on their accounts , we all knew the rules by now , and being caught and failing in any way was wrong . |
| 7 | Few of us have any idea of how much water we use on an average day . |
| 8 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
| 9 | Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience . |
| 10 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 11 | It was puzzling : neither of them expressed any desire actually to see their origins again . |
| 12 | Neither of them paid any heed to the poor old grand-father , who had to tend the sacred fire all on his own . |
| 13 | Neither of them showed any inclination to do other than sit outside the café in the sunshine , and Oliver had shifted the conversation far away from the Durances and murder . |
| 14 | ‘ I tried the bank manager and the lawyer on that one and neither of them showed any enthusiasm . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Neither of you has any business bringing an unwanted " out of time " baby into the world . |
| 17 | I 'm not leaving you here all alone , so it 's a case of you either coming with me , or of me staying here for the rest of the night and neither of us getting any rest . |
| 18 | Only eight of us had any sort of previous military experience : Marius , myself , Chris , a German from Oberammergau who had killed a tourist in the celebrations surrounding the Passion Play , a Frenchman , Mike the Rhodesian , and a Portuguese and a Rumanian who had both served with their countries ' airborne regiments . |
| 19 | Having been to a coeducational school , she did not find men a novelty , and in theory ought to have been able to discriminate better than Liz ( who endured some fairly dreadful experimental evenings in her search for entertainment ) , but her natural kindness made it almost impossible for her to refuse any overture , however offensive , however louche . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | But mind you , according to some people it was virtually impossible for him to beget any bastards , but still . |
| 22 | Anthony , predictably enough Julia thought , decided that his patients needed him too much for him to take any kind of holiday over the Easter weekend , but he made no objection to David 's formal request to take Julia away to stay with his mother . |
| 23 | Then , as the light was going , a convoy rolled in with the pool — just too late for them to get any pictures . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Kirov is too important to us to take any chances . |
| 27 | I 'm sure that neither one of us has any thoughts along those lines at all . |
| 28 | We are saying to those councillors , ’ Wo n't pay , ca n't say ’ ; in other words , ’ If you are not prepared to obey the law and pay your rightful contribution to the cost of the local services which , as locally elected representatives , you have a say in providing , it is unjustifiable for you to have any influence , through your votes , on the amount of local tax that is levied in your area . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | Had any of them made any approaches to her ? |