Example sentences of "anything [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have nt seen Best do anything I would regard as making him such a good player . |
| 2 | Wishful thinking : the statement ‘ If I could do anything I would implant the standards in his brain ’ may spark off more realistic ideas such as running a course to explain the standards ( perhaps in a country hotel so as to make it a pleasant experience ) . |
| 3 | anything I would have him learn ; |
| 4 | You suggested that while you were away I should continue with my diary and record anything I would wish to talk to you about . |
| 5 | I 'll keep away from you , my fine bucko , I thought , and if I drop anything I 'll kick it to the door before I pick it up . |
| 6 | Well I 'll do anything I 'll tell you that ! |
| 7 | Go on I promise you if you miss anything I 'll tell you tomorrow . |
| 8 | I do n't care how much snout , cash or force you use , my ring-piece is out of fucking bounds and if you try anything I 'll cut your heart out . ’ |
| 9 | The Japanese patenting of the Technics Class AA circuit was quite unknown to me , not having associated their advertisements for Class AA with anything I may have done until I read John Linsley Hood 's article in this journal for December 1989 . |
| 10 | He hardly ever forgets to bring anything I might want . |
| 11 | He called me into his office and proceeded to deliver a very embarrassed speech about how he would support me and anything I might do . |
| 12 | But anything I might do in that way would have to await my return home . |
| 13 | ‘ Certainly not of me or of anything I might do . ’ |
| 14 | I would like to think that my ministry would appeal to a cross section of the population , that Official Unionists could come to my services and not be insulted by anything I might say . |
| 15 | If he exaggerated at all , it was in supposing that anything I might say mattered all that much . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's nothing in this world that I 'm afraid of , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ least of all anything I might have to say to you . ’ |
| 17 | Anything I might have seen ? ’ |
| 18 | He said you were a gentleman who 'd pay a fair price for anything I could tell you . ’ |
| 19 | I figure I better just keep it coming , anything I could think of . |
| 20 | I decided to go round to her place to see if she had anything I could borrow . |
| 21 | I decided that , for anything I could measure to be considered part of a memory trace or engram , it needed to show the following properties . |
| 22 | So anything I could offer that would be nice , oh she said I do n't know , now , but I 'll tell you when you come this afternoon and so that she told me there was around five or six o'clock and it was too late so I said well I 'll go on Monday morning , but they er were all closed on Monday morning . |
| 23 | It so , was there anything I could do about it ? |
| 24 | Before the storm , I mean , to see if there was anything I could do . |
| 25 | If Bonanza had set Connie Fraser up for the chill , there would n't be anything I could do to stop it . |
| 26 | Is there anything I could do ? " |
| 27 | In any event he came to see me and we discussed the matter , and I said exactly that to him : that if he had appealed to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary , it seemed to me a very remote prospect that anything I could do would be of the slightest effect . |
| 28 | I knew I was lying but there was n't anything I could do about it . |
| 29 | There was n't anything I could do and , knowing that , I was conscious of my own inadequacy , weighed down by a sense of helplessness . |
| 30 | I did n't recognise him , nor did there seem to be anything I could do for him . |