Example sentences of "anything [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |
| 2 | You surely must realize that I could n't take the responsibility … if anything should have happened to his daughter … ’ |
| 3 | Anything might have happened . |
| 4 | Anything might have happened to you . |
| 5 | ‘ Anything might have happened , ’ she said , putting her hands over her eyes to shut out the horrors of the market , remembering with longing the cellophane-wrapped , refrigerated coolness of the shops at home . |
| 6 | Anything could have intervened — any distraction . |
| 7 | If anything could have made Charles feel sicker , it was Bernard 's bonhomie . |
| 8 | If anything could have frightened us away from the proposition it would have been the failure of the Leader of the Opposition to advance a sensible argument on anything at all . |
| 9 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 10 | Come now , you can not possibly imagine that anything could have come of your relation with that chit . |
| 11 | Down in Tranent , which was somewhere near Edinburgh , and anything could have happened there — but old Donald had had this from Cameron himself , and he got newspapers by the carrier 's cart from Dunkeld — some miners had sworn not to serve , even if the King called on them , and the Volunteers had chased them into the cornfields and played havoc with their sabres … |
| 12 | We had to go in there several times when I was little and mother was sick , and they 'd never let us stay together , so anything could have happened . ’ |
| 13 | It was easy to believe that anything could have happened here . |
| 14 | Anything could have happened . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ All the same , anything could have happened … ’ |
| 16 | Anything could have happened to her … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Anything could have happened , ’ Allen said . |
| 18 | Knowing his temperament , of course , then anything could have happened . |
| 19 | Mr Bailey , of Sywell , Northants , said : ‘ Anything could have happened . ’ |
| 20 | Anything could have happened to her . ’ |
| 21 | And then anything could have happened . |
| 22 | ‘ Anything could have happened over the last few days . ’ |
| 23 | Anything could have happened . |
| 24 | Anything could have happened . |
| 25 | ‘ Anything could have happened to her . ’ |
| 26 | But you understand that anything could happen to change it . ’ |
| 27 | The food filled a hole and that was as much as anyone could say for it , or maybe anything would have tasted like sawdust right then . |
| 28 | I wanted my own business — almost anything would have done . ’ |
| 29 | She had finished her lamb chops , and they were really top-hole , or she was so hungry that anything would have seemed like ambrosia , the food of the gods . |
| 30 | ‘ I know exactly what is going to happen and there 's no chance anything will happen to make her worse than now . |