Example sentences of "[coord] anything [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while British filmmakers began to believe in the ‘ decline of Hollywood ’ as their guarantee that the increased popularity of their pictures would be permanent , they were n't disposed to tap the Americans on the shoulder and suggest that perhaps they should start thinking about film schools , new talents programmes , script competitions or anything of that sort . |
| 2 | She knew nothing about field forces or induction or anything of that sort . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not chauvinism or anything of that kind , ’ Yorkshire-born Speaker Boothroyd tells me . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |
| 5 | There are no direct debits or into building societies or anything of that sort . |
| 6 | Were there any searchlight batteries or anything of that nature in Bloxwich ? |
| 7 | ? I 'm not interested in the plot , or the characterisation , or anything of that nature — I 'm interested in the novel . |
| 8 | He was not misled or lulled into a sense of false security or anything of that kind . |
| 9 | We have no conscientious objections or anything of that kind . |
| 10 | If there were a need for a review or anything of that sort the initiative would have to come first from the Catering Sub-Committee . |
| 11 | ‘ You heard nothing — no cries of distress or anything of that sort ? ’ |
| 12 | We could n't do an awful lot because it was er er classed as a luxury business er and so we , we could n't get an awful lot of photographic paper or films or anything of that sort but we managed to keep the connections up with what we could get . |
| 13 | ‘ You would n't think he was involved in any local corruption , or anything of that sort ? ’ |
| 14 | They also show that results do not necessarily have anything to do with socio-economic circumstances or anything of that kind . |
| 15 | You can confirm this that there have been any convictions for er er er two men conspiring to commit armed robbery or anything of that sort have there ? |
| 16 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 17 | Well I 'm not prepared to become involved in er er discussing the speeches which I did n't hear or er which may well be out of context or anything of that sort . |
| 18 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 19 | But it , it , it 's not covering from factory to airport or anything of that sort . |
| 20 | He did n't believe that he could start a movement which would lead directly to the abolition of British erm armaments , the rejection of the atomic bomb or anything of that kind . |
| 21 | Did you want any peas or anything with that ? |
| 22 | Was there any erm disputes or anything at that time on the , on the trams ? |
| 23 | I know it 's not his car 's number plate , or not the car he usually travels in , but ask if it fits his birthday in any way , or his phone number , or anything at all they can think of . |
| 24 | The trouble is they are trying to understand life — life that was invented by God — without knowing much or anything at all about the inventor . |
| 25 | Was you erm in a union or anything at all at this time ? |
| 26 | Yes he 's built a business up and I 'm not denying him that er or anything at all , But somehow now er I do n't know whether the wheel is turning too fast for him to co keep up with it or whether it 's erm oh never mind the erm the industry of the locality , providing the money stakes a I know every business has got to pay for itself and that we we 're not , If this quarry was on the down grade and er er somebody had come to us said , look unless you take a drop in your wages er we ca n't survive that would be a different issue altogether . |
| 27 | It now whether you 're taking a portrait or anything at all it 's always more interesting I think , if you can take a a slightly different viewpoint , a di whether it 's up high or down below , or whatever er i that always adds interest to it . |
| 28 | N.B. If you have any requests for ‘ special ’ training days or anything at all you would like included in Q.T. Days please let Hilary Weedon or the Office know . |
| 29 | N.B. If you have any requests for ‘ special ’ training days or anything at all you would like included in Q.T. Days please let Hilary Weedon or the Office know . |
| 30 | The equivalent level of ignorance in another subject might be not to know the name of Shakespeare or anything at all about evolution or to have any skills of basic measuring or to know that Asia is a continent . |