Example sentences of "[vb pp] anything [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She certainly had n't expected anything like this when she had got up this morning . |
| 2 | Never having designed anything like this before Cusick privately held many worries about the cost and ease of manufacturing these props . |
| 3 | Mike in the audience and he 'll probably give me a rollicking afterwards , cos I have n't prepared anything about this and I suspect I wo n't be able to speak till the red light . |
| 4 | We have n't done anything about this . |
| 5 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ thinkers , on the other hand , tend to perceive child care matters in personal rather than political terms and are more inclined to the views expressed or implied in the following comments by respondents from this group : ‘ you could never have done anything with this poor mother ’ , and : |
| 6 | Mr David Cummings , general manager , said : ‘ We have never done anything on this scale , but everyone has been fantastic and our suppliers have stood by us . ’ |
| 7 | On that occasion he said : ‘ This is the first time I have done anything like this , but I do n't apologise for it . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's very exciting — nobody 's ever done anything like this before . |
| 9 | Richard had never done anything like this , nor would he : even if he had been unfaithful to me — though as far as I knew , he never had — he would never humiliate me publicly . |
| 10 | He certainly had n't done anything like this in ages . |
| 11 | never in my life had I done anything like this before . |
| 12 | ‘ Even though you 've never done anything like this before ? |
| 13 | She had never done anything like this before , but she was n't lacking in courage . |
| 14 | Neither of them had done anything like this before . |
| 15 | Ihave three sons and I would know , and if they 'd done anything like this I would dislike them , and even hate them |
| 16 | ever done anything like this before ? |
| 17 | I emphasise that I do not believe that any individual or manager in the health service has done anything in this case which departs from the principles upon which the health service is built . |
| 18 | ‘ We have not seen anything of this kind in Britain , ’ added the Commission 's Head of Site Studies . |
| 19 | Hills cut him from 10-1 to 6-1 , prompting their representative , Don Payne , to comment : ‘ You expect big market moves before races like this , but I 've never seen anything on this scale . ’ |
| 20 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 21 | My husband works for a bus company but he has n't said anything about this . |
| 22 | Nobody had said anything like this to Kit all day . |
| 23 | He had never felt anything like this — he was a lay figure , a lump of synthetic wax beside this man who had the humanity to cry . |
| 24 | So whether we 've but nobody else seems to have noticed anything like this . |
| 25 | Er I would suspect that very few branches and departments have used anything like this . |
| 26 | Could I I could from those statistics could n't I tho Or or have n't we sold anything to this year ? |
| 27 | Such things happen in bad dreams , dreams of the recurring kind from which one awakens in panic and fear , though she had never dreamed anything like this . |
| 28 | Graham 's never had anything like this to deal with when he 's been away before . |
| 29 | ‘ I have lived here for years , and I have never had anything like this happen in my home , ’ she said . |
| 30 | ‘ We have n't got anything like this at our house . |