Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] any [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , on top of the expense of maintaining the house and the car , you may want to continue any hobbies you may have or take more holidays . |
| 2 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 3 | This involves building any investments required into the company budget as well as providing against project slippage because of any additional prototype stages the new process may make advisable . |
| 4 | We do not want to lose any explorers of the quantum world on the way so I think I had better issue a survival kit before we start . |
| 5 | In the midst of all this juggling we do n't want to lose any hours . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , that meant that the whole thing was top secret , because they did n't want to risk any leaks in case somebody followed up the work and got in first with a patent . ’ |
| 7 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 8 | Rafael Valls acquired an appealing half-length portrait of Miss Juliana Copley by Lawrence ( lot 29 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) for £92,000 , but doubts had been expressed about the condition of the second Lawrence in the sale , a grand full-length portrait of John Allnutt ( lot 30 , est. £300,000–500,000 ) , and it failed to attract any bids . |
| 9 | Although minor works by Jasper Johns ( lot 20 , est. $300–400,000 ) and Robert Rauschenberg ( lot 21 , est. $500–700,000 ) failed to attract any bids , there was satisfactory interest in Minimalist and Neo-Expressionist pictures from his collection . |
| 10 | It seems to go against common-sense notions that individuals would want to hide any misdemeanours or crimes . |
| 11 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 12 | Archaeological digs by a team from Newcastle University failed to find any remains of interest in the area to be developed , yesterday 's planning applications sub-committee was told . |
| 13 | I have come across it on the American networks , where all script conferences are attended by a legal-looking chap whose only contribution is to say ’ We do not want to offend any groups ’ from time to time . |
| 14 | He tried to spot any spy-flies lurking in this foyer , little spies which so recently had been his own to command , till they were stolen . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he has received any representations from the Confederation of British Industry concerning wage levels . |
| 16 | The US Baby Bells are telling the US powers that be that they will invest $100,000m upgrading their networks if they are permitted to carry any services they choose on them — if not , they will simply allow their networks to deteriorate and decay : no , they do n't actually go that far , but they say they will collectively invest only $25,000m . |
| 17 | Praxsys ' hottest property , Snoopy — which had already been adopted by Sun ( UX No 385 ) — is designed to enable any Windows NT or Windows application to run on any RISC or iAPX-86 hardware ( UX No 403 ) . |
| 18 | If you want to interview any more-members of this Club , do it quietly , at the station preferably . ’ |
| 19 | Sinead is just a rock'n'roll chick who forget to write any songs . |
| 20 | ‘ The first job , of course , was to try to find any traces of nitroglycerine on anybody in the club or in their rooms . |
| 21 | And so far no one has pilfered any cuttings , ’ Hainge says . |
| 22 | Bill said : ‘ The open nights were designed to answer any questions that women might have had about firefighting . |
| 23 | HONG KONG — China reacted angrily yesterday to Hong Kong 's decision to move a centrally-located British naval base to an outlying island , a switch apparently designed to undercut any plans China had for a high-profile military presence after 1997 , writes Kevin Hamlin . |
| 24 | At the end of your talk you will be expected to answer any questions which the audience may have to ask . |
| 25 | If the Grand Theogonist has suffered any wounds but has not been killed then all his wounds are instantly healed . |
| 26 | The operation appears to have been successful , and none of the vaccinated elephants has shown any symptoms of the disease . |
| 27 | This has been an election fought mainly on the middle ground and the Labour Party has avoided any links that might taint their respectable new image of smart suits and red roses . |
| 28 | If any other reader has had any problems with Mark Stuart 's Variable Bench Power Supply ( or can throw any other light on this subject ) please drop me a line ! |
| 29 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 30 | Any members there want to express any thoughts on the matter ? |