Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 2 | In this particular interview irony was continuously deployed against almost any remark other boys made which hinted at any involvement with the text . |
| 3 | When we look at circumstances in the past , and see the patterns of support between kin which prevailed at any given point , we are looking at situations very different from our own in important and relevant ways . |
| 4 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
| 5 | She seemed at any rate , to satisfy lodgers . |
| 6 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 7 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |
| 8 | It labelled them as personal opinion and suggested that in future the press question everything said at any time by DEC staff , no matter how high ranking , to assure themselves they are getting the company line . |
| 9 | The rationale of the putting-out system was that it enabled the merchant capitalist to draw on only as much labour as he needed at any given condition of the market . |
| 10 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 11 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 12 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 13 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |