Example sentences of "[verb] anything that [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previous explorations , in 1987 and 1988 , failed to discover anything that could help explain why the plane crashed on its routine flight from Bologna to Palermo in June 1980 . |
| 2 | Traditionally , Alsace wines never see new wood , and the appellation laws clearly preclude anything that might get in the way of ‘ fruit plus terroir ’ . |
| 3 | Polozkov saw the two-party system as an attempt to divide and weaken the working class ; he rejected anything that would lead to the emergence of divisions between rich and poor in Soviet society , and insisted upon the dominance of state control and ownership . |
| 4 | Clean tank regularly ; remove anything that might rot |
| 5 | Yes er er made an important point , er the application is not in front of the Committee most important that will be says anything that would prejudge consideration of that application . |
| 6 | This is important since the brief was always to destroy anything that may leave incriminating evidence . |
| 7 | Have you ever done anything that would help with this now ? |
| 8 | She must never ever do anything that might make them fight . |
| 9 | Arseholes , I would n't , I would n't do anything like that , I would n't do anything that might hurt |
| 10 | I 'm a pretty perceptive person , I understand people quite well , but I never dreamt that my mother could do anything that would damage my daughter so greatly . |
| 11 | A true friend would not do anything that would enable the disease to continue but would instead take the difficult and risky path of totally confronting it , while still loving the sufferer , despite all the harshness that the disease will cause the sufferer to throw in return . |
| 12 | She was not going to say or do anything that would make John Major 's task more difficult : the Cabinet , here she indicated them with a sinuous wave of her hand , was the most brilliant since Herbert Asquith 's and , as for Central Office , and she looked directly at Sir Charles , who was mopping his brow , they were good men and true who strove mightily in the interests of the Party , and for precious little reward . |
| 13 | Editor , — Allyson M Pollock and Azeem Majeed 's arguments in response to our editorial on consultant episodes could perhaps be summarised as ‘ the internal market is intrinsically flawed and we should not do anything that would delay its demise . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I still think you 're totally wrong , but I 'd never do anything that could endanger you — or the club . ’ |
| 15 | I would welcome anything that would improve the legislation . |
| 16 | John would welcome anything that might put more criminals back in court . |
| 17 | In any case , I did not linger long enough — as I was obliged to explain to his lordship shortly afterwards — to hear anything that would give a clue as to M. Dupont 's attitude to Mr Lewis 's remarks . |
| 18 | I refuse to hear anything that might disrupt my own plans . |
| 19 | I think they were so nervous to play anything that would imply for the space shot or against the space shot — whether the guys were going to come back or not . |
| 20 | The cost for a single user of a committee feed is a real deterrent , particularly for individual ITV regional companies , and the Committee was anxious to avoid anything that might inhibit regional coverage . |
| 21 | Besides , its new paymaster — the Russian leadership — is keen to avoid anything that would embarrass Britain , just when it 's asking for Western aid . |
| 22 | ‘ We do n't like anything that might give someone the idea to stick a poor fish in beer . |
| 23 | The media seem unwilling to publish anything that might challenge the certitude with which editors , politicians , judges and others insist that we know how to increase measurable intelligence or that test data ‘ prove ’ , to use The New York Times 's word , that a poor environment causes familial retardation . |
| 24 | When you carry out the initial survey to check just what you have got and what you want , do n't discard anything that might make a positive contribution to the garden later on . |
| 25 | " I do n't want you to do anything that might attract the least sort of suspicion to yourself , but could you , in the normal course of your work , make out a list of the voyages of your ships over the past year — just name of ship and masters , ports of call , and dates ? " |
| 26 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 27 | It was an aggressive type that had even reached Kingsmarkham , a type that talked pacifism and the rights of man and brotherly love without the energy or courage to do anything that might bring these desirable conditions nearer . |
| 28 | It was dangerous , too , to appear too over-confident , or to do anything that might provoke him into making his unofficial fatwa slightly more public than it was already . |
| 29 | First , the hon. Gentleman is terrified of saying anything that would upset his trade union paymasters ; secondly , he is afraid to do anything that would remind the electorate of the chains that bind his party to those paymasters — the bosses of the trade unions . |
| 30 | ‘ The Government is pinning its hopes for economic recovery on the housing market , so it would n't want to do anything that would snuff it out , ’ said Mike Simpson , Suffolk spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |