Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He urged them to compare any sum they had in mind with damages that might be awarded for physical injuries that lasted a lifetime . |
| 2 | Had any of them made any approaches to her ? |
| 3 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 4 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 5 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 6 | It is largely up to the banks themselves to decide on the ratio that they consider to be ‘ prudent ’ : i.e. the ratio that provides them with enough liquid assets to enable them to meet any demands for cash . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | None of them has any connections here , not really ; they 're all bachelors ; at least , in a way . |
| 10 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 11 | Did I make any deals , brush up any publishing contacts ? |
| 12 | Well , now can I make any Joan a lady . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ If Proopsie knew , I regret any pain I caused him , ’ she says . |
| 15 | I mean any groups at all and if so which ones . |
| 16 | They say that I mean any changes any in temperature are very noticeable so w Like it is working in the middle of winter offshore would be something I would have to come to terms with but no I mean I do n't think there 's any problems work-wise . |
| 17 | By this I mean any process or phenomenon that involves a mapping of two or more elements . |
| 18 | Well I mean any sort of food or anything . |
| 19 | so , do n't worry about bad language , I mean any sort of dialect you know , just forget it 's there |
| 20 | I mean any body can draw a house in it ? , and put some straw on it |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , if I raise any objections , he just refuses to make love at all . |
| 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 . |