Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] anything [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 2 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |
| 3 | But here — since he had not the slightest intention of addressing anything but common courtesy towards Miss Skelton — he could allow that sympathy to exercise itself . |
| 4 | We would never dream of beginning anything of this kind without gaining the views of local residents . |
| 5 | While Brunner naturally had not the remotest intention of supporting anything of this kind , his concern for his own kind of natural theology seemed to Barth to be wholly without adequate defences against it . |
| 6 | Emphasize the difficulty of saying anything at all with regard to religion which may not be received by someone in a misleading way . |
| 7 | Christine said thanks to sheer determination and hours of extra work Wesley was now capable of doing anything at all . |
| 8 | These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who , for example , seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks , management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision , or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance , or complaining to Government about interest rates , rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK . |
| 9 | Now none of you would dream of doing anything like that . |
| 10 | Well I , I 'd never thought of taking anything like that until she said , cos I , well you never pay , it 's all new to me , I have n't done it before and she said oh no she said we take these small tins of stuff with us and er make our sandwiches , cos there 's a supermarket I believe not far from there |
| 11 | We could n't argue , for Thistle 's chance of taking anything from this game lasted all of 58 seconds . |
| 12 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 13 | It is well recognized because unless you have managed to work out how things actually happen you have no chance of achieving anything at all . |
| 14 | That way , your 30 days terms will mean 30 days instead of meaning anything from 30 to 60 days ( which averages out at 45 days or 50 per cent more days than 30 days ) . |
| 15 | So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage . |
| 16 | Those involved were told that they should have consulted the senior branch before starting anything like that . |
| 17 | Erm and really the only way I thought that I could prevent myself from doing anything like that was to kill myself in a very violent way because I |
| 18 | If he can produce no grand reason for abandoning left-wing Labour attitudes , people will be forgiven if they conclude that the change was cynical and opportunistic and that Mr Kinnock is more interested in gaining office than in doing anything in particular once he has arrived at the top . |
| 19 | In addition to deleting anything in bad or questionable taste , you might like to add a national , regional or personal dimension to a good joke . |
| 20 | The vivid recording helps to bring out the degree of refinement that Miss Edwards finds even in 1812 , without losing anything in dramatic bite . |
| 21 | This method has the added advantage that , because it will be possible to subtract all the lower numbers without carrying anything at all , you can work it out from left to right . |