Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
2 | Nothing made any sense . ’ |
3 | What was there to be so glad about when nothing made any difference ? |
4 | He urged them to compare any sum they had in mind with damages that might be awarded for physical injuries that lasted a lifetime . |
5 | At first neither Ceauşescu 's guards and officials nor the older professional participants in the display wanted to let the young woman take part , but she did nothing to banish any assumption that her surname indicated a relationship with the First Lady . |
6 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
7 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
8 | In addition , the defendants gave undertakings to the plaintiff , one of which was as follows : Any information which I have access to or knowledge which I acquire arising out of or in the course of my contract of service shall remain confidential and shall not be used by me to obtain any gain , benefit or advantage or profits for myself or for any member of my family or connected person . |
9 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
10 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
11 | But until the inventor has done both things [ product and gestalt ] nothing has any meaning . |
12 | I have tried endless products which claim to remedy this , but nothing has any effect . |
13 | There is nothing to encourage any speculation on what the butcher of Abbeville , the peasants , their wives or the priest in Les Perdris or Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , Barat , Haimet and Travers , or Jouglet et al. |
14 | They are also completely fearless — having long since confronted their own vision of world destruction , nothing holds any terror for them any longer . |
15 | No-one has any need for the Avant-garde , it 's completely finished . |
16 | Yeah , I have worked all my life in various jobs and I 've never yet met a man who hated me nor have I hated any man , and I think there must be many women here who think the same thing . |
17 | ‘ If Proopsie knew , I regret any pain I caused him , ’ she says . |
18 | By this I mean any process or phenomenon that involves a mapping of two or more elements . |
19 | Well I mean any sort of food or anything . |
20 | so , do n't worry about bad language , I mean any sort of dialect you know , just forget it 's there |
21 | I mean any body can draw a house in it ? , and put some straw on it |
22 | I mean any visit to a gesopholar laboratory will persuade you some very , very striking differences , you know , like having four wings instead of two , or even four legs instead of six I 've had in the lab — you know , really quite striking differences can be due to a single Mendelising gene , no problem about that . |
23 | For example , there 's a piece of cake in front of us and , and you know you just want it so badly and you just eat it , or even having sex , anything , I mean any desire that you have that you just follow . |
24 | By ‘ externalist ’ in this context I mean any theory which denies that a mental episode has any meaning-content intrinsically , and affirms that its content consists in some external relation to other things . |
25 | But the paradox goes like this — I mean any form of it is as follows : proteins , as most of you know , are strings of amino acids and we make a whole series of quite specific proteins . |
26 | On this occasion I had neither heard nor seen the tigress , nor had I received any indication from bird or beast of her presence , and yet I knew , without any shadow of doubt , that she was lying up for me among the rocks . |
27 | If you look at the News item regarding Hoof Branding in the September issue you will see that I recommended any form of security marking and that hoof branding was suggested as an alternative to freezebranding for those who choose not to freezebrand their horses . |
28 | At least Hobbes was consistent for , as Berkeley noted , ‘ Matter once allow 'd , I defy any man to prove God is not matter ’ . |
29 | Her breasts swing in a way I defy any artist to capture in paint . |
30 | I defy any woman not to think he is simply the most scrumptious thing on two legs . |