Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | For that reason , the Territorial Army does not consider itself in any way a second-class alternative . |
| 2 | According to Oakeshott , something less pretentious will do ; viz. , ‘ that we are not children in statu pupillari but adults who do not consider themselves under any obligation to justify their preference for making their own choices ’ . |
| 3 | There are of course other reasons for each one , so it is impossible to say exactly how much you can do yourself for any of the conditions mentioned . |
| 4 | It does mean that they ca n't improve themselves by any small land therefore likely ! evolutionary step : none of their immediate neighbours in the local equivalent of ‘ biomorph space ’ would do any better . |
| 5 | It is a system that would lend itself to any sizeable district general hospital . |
| 6 | I was now certain that I could not see myself in any type of residential home in the future . |
| 7 | At the same time the GCC instituted collective security arrangements whereby the six , while rejecting outside intervention , would defend themselves against any attack made upon any one of them . |
| 8 | People are like chameleons : they can adjust themselves to any environment so long as they 've no alternative . |
| 9 | A Herefordshire hobgoblin would avenge himself for any insult by stealing all the family 's keys and refusing to return them until his favourite cake had been baked and left on the hob for him to eat . |
| 10 | Do you reward yourself in any way for your success ? |
| 11 | Kaifu promised to make efforts to reduce his country 's large trade surplus with South Korea — estimated to have exceeded US$6,000 million in 1990 — but he did not commit himself to any specific measures to achieve this . |
| 12 | The pain which is manifest in all the muscles and sinews of the body … does not express itself with any violence either in the face or in the position as a whole . |
| 13 | By this time Dinah was exhausted and desperate ; she could not drag herself round any more managers ’ offices today , they would look at her and see a bedraggled young woman who must be as bad as the papers said . |
| 14 | In cichlids this seems to pose no particular problem , perhaps because the average female cichlid will content herself with any mate if an appropriate one is not available . |
| 15 | Besides being the sun 's foster-mother , Mokosh could foretell the future , and she could change herself into any form she pleased , bird or fish or snake of the swamp . |
| 16 | I wondered what it was that could come between a husband and wife when their child killed herself away from home and in circumstances for which they could not hold themselves in any way responsible . |
| 17 | It 's his 'eart , you know , miss , so he should n't strain himself in any way . |
| 18 | ‘ You must not reproach yourself at any time . |
| 19 | ‘ Any sponsor would have to realise that although I might lose an occasional race when I could have won , I am able to run far more races and to winy many , only because I do n't put myself under any pressure by expecting or even wanting to win . |
| 20 | Understandably , non-selection for the World Cup was a huge disappointment for Walsh , but his response was phlegmatic : ‘ I did n't put myself under any pressure , because there 's no point . |
| 21 | You should acquaint yourself with any material that is provided about the authority . |
| 22 | Wordsworth 's was a face which did not assign itself to any class . |
| 23 | Once in a pond , the adults will attach themselves to any fish , causing the same problems as Argulus , but on a grander scale . |
| 24 | Why do n't you say if you 're a child you can go in a group of three , if your adults you 'll have to be in a group of two , so the children can attach themselves to any group . |
| 25 | His suggestion that one is always ‘ at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other community , or to agree with others to begin a new one … in any part of the world , they can find free and unpossessed ’ has been ridiculed , and is even less plausible now than when he made it . |
| 26 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 27 | However a third party may find itself without any available forum in which to present its substantive claims . |
| 28 | Day by day her bewilderment increased , and , such was the fascination exercised upon the mind by these anarchic powers , she might find herself at any step allured in folly , and dizzily unaware of her plight . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , she could n't imagine herself in any form of intimacy with her employer , much as she liked him . |
| 30 | When she got back to England , and saw Guy Sterne in the cold , rain-soaked light of an English summer day , stability and common sense and some healthy , protective cynicism would undoubtedly reassert themselves without any effort on her part whatsoever . |