Example sentences of "[verb] anything [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although relatively fresh and interesting , neither has anything like the same energy as his screenplay for Mackendrick . |
| 2 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 3 | Neither did the very many railwaymen who were concerned with passengers , nor , since the canal companies did not usually operate as carriers , did they employ anything like the same number of men in handling freight . |
| 4 | On 4 June , the day the Dunkirk evacuation ended , he wrote to the Chiefs of Staff : ‘ if it is so easy for the Germans to invade us … why should it be … impossible for us to do anything of the same kind to him ? ’ |
| 5 | THE REST The return to low-budget film-making by the director of Halloween , John Carpenter , fails to generate anything like the same tension . |
| 6 | If it requires to seize anything with the same organ , its tongue will then divide and become forked . |
| 7 | Not even the same matches with the same results would have engendered anything like the same degree of atmosphere or emotion had it been staged at a neutral venue , which is what the situation would be in most years if the one or two weeks idea was adopted . |
| 8 | But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's got plenty of pace — but I 'll bet you £1,000 he would not get anything like the same results as Waqar and Wasim . |
| 10 | It 's puzzling that the British public seems to share this feeling of worship for Russian dancers , yet does n't extend anything like the same respect to its own . |
| 11 | Napoleon , in the weeks before his abdication , had never fought more brilliantly , and no one , least of all Wellington , expected anything but the same cleverness now . |
| 12 | Do reductions of poems have anything like the same psychological reality ? |