Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] any " in BNC.

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1 Lionfish have venom glands at the base of the dorsal fine spines and the sting can prove very serious and excruciatingly painful although there is no record of it causing any human fatalities
2 So , if you would be so kind as to get into a position where you can see what I 'm doing without being too close it means that if we do splash any acid by accident er the likelihood of it causing any problems to anyone are minimal .
3 None of it brought any response from him .
4 And she thought , as she stood there with Rosie , Susie , Katie , Isabel , Janice and Heather , that none of it mattered , none of it had any importance , in view of the fact that she was going .
5 Not one word of it made any sense at all to him .
6 None of it made any sense .
7 But none of it made any difference .
8 None of it made any sense !
9 The Vienna settlement of 1814 – 15 , the foundation of international relations for two generations to come , received strikingly little parliamentary discussion : only one or two aspects of it aroused any real public interest .
10 I 'm a free man , and all that you hold dear , you rich men — and beggars too — none of it has any power over me . ’
11 Behind Hurd 's selection of a specific group of Arab states is the assumption that the Arab world as a whole can be ignored , since only part of it has any role to play in security in future .
12 Does the association of low pitch with authority and high pitch with lack of it have any reasonable basis , or is it simply a sexist prejudice through which everything that marks a speaker out as female becomes a cause for complaint and a proof of inferiority ?
13 It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense .
14 She did n't even need to work out her notice , just go in any time she felt like it to collect any personal belongings .
15 A good horse trainer teaches a horse good habits so that it does what he wants it to do automatically , without it learning any undesirable behaviour or bad habits in the process ; but a poor trainer often finds that his horses learn something unwanted at the same time .
16 You can leave that stuff on practically forever without it doing any harm . ’
17 The educative process has to begin sufficiently early in a person 's life for it to have any real effect on attitudes , and I believe the challenge has to have the response of both parents and schools .
18 Moreover , whatever the course adopted , it would have to receive the blessing of Germany 's traditional enemy , France , for it to have any chance of success .
19 The only way for it to look any different is for Michael to learn the bloody lines .
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