Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she been asked that minute what her exact feelings were , she might have said , I have done what I can for Andrée , if she 's going to blow cold again , if she does n't want to see me any more , vogue la galère , I shall have to survive , I shall . |
| 2 | But she smiled again and said , " I 'd understand if you did n't want to see me any more , " and looked down , away from him , at her feet . |
| 3 | He had seen fear , and bravery , too , and savagery and oppression , homes burned down , wheels smashed off carts and farm implements so that the land could not be cultivated , crops ruined — he had seen it spread everywhere and he did n't want to see it any more . |
| 4 | Your old friends — your real friends — do n't want to see you any more . |
| 5 | Nobody will need to wear them any more . |
| 6 | ‘ Once you 're sleeping with her regularly , you figure you do n't need to bribe her any more ? ’ |
| 7 | " If you want to do me any favours , " I said , " maybe you could get me reinstated later , when I 'm better . |
| 8 | Ruth was tempted to tell her that at the time she had not had the vicar in mind , but since Mrs Peterson had not come to bring her any comfort , she simply turned her face to the wall . |
| 9 | ‘ I still have a smooth face , a body without apparent faults … but no one wants to undress me any more , ’ she laments . |
| 10 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 11 | I would n't want to cause her any distress . ’ |
| 12 | " I do n't want to cause you any kerfuffle , Mr Plant . |
| 13 | Certainly , it was quite a strenuous walk — though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty — the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so . |
| 14 | Anna coped with him all right , Giorgio never seemed to cause her any real pain ; her tirades , which used to be against the prince , were about Constanza who had ruined our lives by losing Simon . |
| 15 | At five past two Franco took the unprecedented step of refusing to serve him any more wine . |
| 16 | She went from room to room , praising the decor , and if she noticed the paintings they did n't appear to do her any obvious mischief . |
| 17 | Kate quickly shrugged it off herself , not wanting to give him any chance of coming near her . |
| 18 | ‘ See this gob , ’ she pointed to her painted mouth , ‘ it can talk a lot and these peepers can see a lot , they 'll remember you , mind , and if there 's anything I can do to hurt you any time then I will . ’ |
| 19 | If that 's going to cause you any problem , we have to thrash it out now before we get started . ’ |
| 20 | Her facetiousness was not going to win her any friends . |
| 21 | I do n't think I 'm going to buy you any thing else or else this holiday 's costing me a fortune . |
| 22 | I 'm not going to give her any clues . |
| 23 | But we 're not going to give you any more money . |
| 24 | Meaning that , if he had n't managed to earn respect during his lifetime , no amount afterwards was going to do him any good . |
| 25 | Now you 're always making a balance in developing drugs and I have nothing to do with the drug industry , I 'm a G P , you have a balance between trying to move things forward to get people better and on the other hand making sure that you 're not going to do them any great harm . |
| 26 | ‘ They asked to be on it and it 's not going to do us any harm to have Slash and Ozzy on the new album , is it ? |
| 27 | Like the purr , the key message of the smile is ‘ I am NOT going to do you any harm ’ . |
| 28 | If your tactics are basically to run straight towards the enemy and hit him hard then a bolt thrower is n't really going to do you any good . |
| 29 | No what I 'm say what I 'm saying is that that leaving it for a few months probably is n't going to do you any harm . |
| 30 | Gone on record as saying ‘ if performances like this is n't going to do you any good , you have n't lost one match this season through the merit of the opposing side ’ |