Example sentences of "anything [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 32 | She would have given anything for a glimpse of the moon that had been shining when she was here before , but it was not there , and as the knocking gathered strength she realised she would have to go down . |
| 33 | He then provided : ‘ I wish whatever legacies I have left to be paid by you , my dear son , and if any debt shall emerge , if I had borrowed anything for a time and shall owe it , I wish it to be paid by you , so that what I have left your sister may pass to her undiminished . ’ |
| 34 | Sell all , retire to an obscure lodging and do anything for a living ? |
| 35 | If free speech is to mean anything as a principle upon which democracy is based , it must be invoked regardless . |
| 36 | ( 2 ) In sections 173 , 174 and 176 above , the expression ‘ approved duty ’ , in relation to a member of a body , means any of the following duties , that is to say — ( a ) attendance at a meeting of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; ( b ) the doing of any other thing approved by the body , or anything of a class so approved , for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; , ( c ) where , in pursuance of a duty imposed on or a power granted to the body by any enactment or instrument ( including a Royal Charter ) , he has been appointed by or on the nomination of the body to be a member of some other body prescribed for the purpose of this paragraph ( whether or not that other body falls within any of paragraphs ( ab ) to ( f ) of subsection ( 1 ) above ) , the doing of anything as a member of that other body for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of that other body . |
| 37 | I do n't think Fred 'd be looking for anything as a return . |
| 38 | And you , you know , you used , you used anything as a pillow that you 'd got |
| 39 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 40 | I 'm gon na get changed , sure he never said anything about a shower to get |
| 41 | ‘ Do you remember anything about a map , Parry ? ’ he asked his servant . |
| 42 | Yeah , I do n't anything about a presentation . |
| 43 | You could n't know anything about a person who was possessed . |
| 44 | ‘ Who said anything about a home ? |
| 45 | ‘ Did she say anything about a home on the way up ? ’ |
| 46 | Do you suppose there 's anything about a minister 's private life , particularly a minister in that Department , which is n't known to those people whose business it is to discover and document this kind of potential scandal ? |
| 47 | He did , however , ask , ‘ Can you tell me anything about a writer called LaMotte ? ’ |
| 48 | Who said anything about a court ? ’ |
| 49 | No one — absolutely no one — had seen a man called Kennedy arrive , or known anything about a man with that name . |
| 50 | He denied knowing anything about a plan to abduct the driver or that guns might have been involved . |
| 51 | ‘ Well , we spoke to at least half a dozen members of his firm and none of them knows anything about a shipment of cocaine , ’ Hitch announced . |
| 52 | ‘ You do n't know anything about a box , Theo ? ’ |
| 53 | ‘ No , Gilbert , I do n't know anything about a box of Amy 's . |
| 54 | I do n't remember him saying anything about a job . ’ |
| 55 | Done anything about a Christmas presents yet Jack ? |
| 56 | After all , she did n't say anything about a hand-bag . |
| 57 | ‘ Who said anything about a parrot ? ’ |
| 58 | They did n't say anything about a rift … ’ |
| 59 | Did I ever say anything about a demonstration ? ’ |
| 60 | ‘ Know anything about a chap called Desmond Seymour-Strachey ? ’ he asked casually , after the usual preliminaries of cursing the weather , the students , and the teacher 's lot . |