Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] anything to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 2 | The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) . |
| 3 | ‘ They should always check for identification and following the incident should not disclose anything to anyone without first checking with their bank direct . ’ |
| 4 | If words or phrases are used which do not mean anything to you ask to have them explained to you in layman 's terms . |
| 5 | ‘ The arson charge does not add anything to the prosecution case against Harper , so you need only concentrate on the manslaughter charge against him . ’ |
| 6 | Again , I respect my hon. Friend 's strongly held personal views , but Parliament has expressed its views and I can not add anything to the answer that I gave to the two previous questions . |
| 7 | However , the Court of Appeal in Saunders , above , held that " really " did not add anything to " serious " . |
| 8 | This rhetorical absenteeism is definitive of deconstructive reading where texts are seen to " undo " themselves , and the intervention of a reading " does not add anything to the text " ( 1979 : 17 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ We were told that we could not add anything to the pedestrian provision after the initial period . |
| 10 | Police added : ‘ She did not say anything to the boy 's aunt and left no notes before leaving . |
| 11 | ‘ Did n't Vicente ever say anything to you ? ’ asked Derek . |
| 12 | Did she ever say anything to you ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Did Matthew ever say anything to you about his uncle ? ’ |
| 14 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 15 | In retrospect , he says , ‘ Thatcherism did n't really offer anything to kids at the age of fourteen . |
| 16 | Did n't think anything to it at the time . |
| 17 | Then when we came out we s went around London to see the sights but the decorations but why we went I did n't think anything to them at all this year . |
| 18 | ‘ You ca n't buy anything to actually fit a new-born baby . ’ |
| 19 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 20 | He hoped also that she would n't do anything to him . |
| 21 | You ca n't do anything to Pat , you ca n't help him or harm him . |
| 22 | I became slightly unnerved by the frequent reassurances I was given by fundholders that they would n't do anything to ‘ upset the applecart ’ or disadvantage their colleagues ' patients . |
| 23 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 24 | Luke Scott meant nothing to her ; he could n't do anything to her if she refused to let him . |
| 25 | ‘ You ca n't do anything to us , ’ said Libab . |
| 26 | The hare and the hatter also decide to put the poor little dormouse into the teapot , which is rather cruel because he did n't do anything to them and it is rather a strange thing for his companions to do . |
| 27 | Do n't do anything to me . |
| 28 | Do n't do anything to it . |
| 29 | I mean he kept , I mean he did n't do anything to the city you ca n't even see it from the old one 's still standing and it 's in the wrong it 's so nice . |
| 30 | Do n't do anything to me ! |