Example sentences of "[prep] anything [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were ensconced , it seemed to Robyn , in their own private world , oblivious of anything except the desire that was building between them . |
| 2 | As soon as Angela could think of anything except the pain of returning circulation she saw that they were outside the gate of a walled enclosure . |
| 3 | I was barely conscious of anything except the will to live . |
| 4 | Given a large corpse of anything on the bottom of the Amazon or even the Thames , most fish will ‘ attack ’ and gnaw off the odd bit . |
| 5 | It is the poverty of their own life which makes the poor content to inhabit ‘ unthinkable ’ houses … which makes so many careless of cleanliness , listless about the unhealthy condition of their workshops , and heedless of anything beyond the enjoyment of a moment 's excitement … |
| 6 | The acceptance of the R.A.F. mission , with its hardship of travel to distant and nasty places and audiences of anything but the kind he was humanly fitted to deal with , lonely , cheerless , embarrassed journeys leaving little behind but doubt whether any seed had fallen on good soil ; ali this was in its way an imitation of St. Paul . |
| 7 | At times , as I have researched this book , it has occurred to me that the second-hand book world is the only place left in England where knowledge of anything but the latest semi-literate fads still exists . |
| 8 | Neither came of anything but the most commonplace , workaday material ; yet each hid an adventurous spirit and surprising resources beneath her utilitarian exterior . |
| 9 | You both lose awareness of self-consciousness , of anything but the current overwhelming physical and emotional sensations . |
| 10 | The next day no one talked of anything but the armistice , speculating on what was going to happen . |
| 11 | Meredith wriggled to the edge of the seat , oblivious of anything but the need to put this man straight about her very proper , homely grandmother . |
| 12 | Without the use of anything but the simplest words , this sentence leaves its meaning entirely clear , and yet it still has an emotional quality that can not be forgotten . |
| 13 | By mutual consent , it seemed , they spoke for the rest of the meal of anything but the one topic that was on both their minds . |
| 14 | Elizabeth was also asked if she would like to make a list of what she does not like about community living but could not think of anything for the moment . |
| 15 | But I had very little idea of anything at the time and I did n't do very much acting . |
| 16 | If I remember rightly , you pointed out forcibly that no man would look the side she was on ever again because cheap women had no hope of anything in the future but of being used . |
| 17 | Thatcher said that there would be no relaxation of anything in the budget . |
| 18 | At no time had she addressed herself to the credibility or otherwise of anything in the report . |
| 19 | enough of anything in the world , |
| 20 | You can go from forty to sixty in point three seconds or something , you can really shoot past anything on the road . |
| 21 | Section 303 of the Companies Act 1985 provides that a company may by ordinary resolution remove a director before the expiration of his or her period of office and despite anything in the company 's articles or in any agreement between the company and the director . |
| 22 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 23 | Foley looked like anything in the world except a secret agent . |
| 24 | ( 4 ) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section it shall be competent for a licensing board to entertain objections from the chief constable , lodged at any time before the hearing of an application , if the board is satisfied that there is sufficient reason why due notice and intimation of the objection could not be given , and in such a case the chief constable shall cause his objections to be intimated to the applicant before the hearing . |
| 25 | I 'm leaving this evening and you 're coming with me , even if I have to help you pack , but do n't bother with anything except the basics . |
| 26 | ‘ The programme deals with anything under the sun about football matters . |
| 27 | unclear we will only come on the pitch when you invite us and we will deal with anything off the pitch . |
| 28 | They do n't match with anything on the files . |
| 29 | ‘ It is not treated by the trade in Britain with anything like the respect it is given in France . |
| 30 | This teacher normally has no colleague in school with anything like the dominant , even entrepreneurial attributes of ‘ a good head of department ’ in a British secondary school ; in addition his or her headteacher is in principle primus inter pares , with an essentially administrative role : attending to the smooth running of the various councils and committees which since 1968 have clustered round the French school , negotiating with the Ministry usually through its inspectorate , to obtain an adequate supply of teachers , etc . |