Example sentences of "[prep] anything [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objects disappear , and for a man of 29 he seems to have grabbed hold of very little of anything except a glass and a book . |
| 2 | I was barely conscious of anything except the will to live . |
| 3 | They were ensconced , it seemed to Robyn , in their own private world , oblivious of anything except the desire that was building between them . |
| 4 | As soon as Angela could think of anything except the pain of returning circulation she saw that they were outside the gate of a walled enclosure . |
| 5 | Given a large corpse of anything on the bottom of the Amazon or even the Thames , most fish will ‘ attack ’ and gnaw off the odd bit . |
| 6 | It is the poverty of their own life which makes the poor content to inhabit ‘ unthinkable ’ houses … which makes so many careless of cleanliness , listless about the unhealthy condition of their workshops , and heedless of anything beyond the enjoyment of a moment 's excitement … |
| 7 | The next day no one talked of anything but the armistice , speculating on what was going to happen . |
| 8 | The acceptance of the R.A.F. mission , with its hardship of travel to distant and nasty places and audiences of anything but the kind he was humanly fitted to deal with , lonely , cheerless , embarrassed journeys leaving little behind but doubt whether any seed had fallen on good soil ; ali this was in its way an imitation of St. Paul . |
| 9 | Meredith wriggled to the edge of the seat , oblivious of anything but the need to put this man straight about her very proper , homely grandmother . |
| 10 | We would n't have got on to it except it happened to be a post office where the little old lady is careful and takes a note of the numbers of anything over a fiver . |
| 11 | Elizabeth was also asked if she would like to make a list of what she does not like about community living but could not think of anything for the moment . |
| 12 | But I had very little idea of anything at the time and I did n't do very much acting . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) In sections 173 , 174 and 176 above , the expression ‘ approved duty ’ , in relation to a member of a body , means any of the following duties , that is to say — ( a ) attendance at a meeting of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; ( b ) the doing of any other thing approved by the body , or anything of a class so approved , for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of the body , or of any of its committees or sub-committees ; , ( c ) where , in pursuance of a duty imposed on or a power granted to the body by any enactment or instrument ( including a Royal Charter ) , he has been appointed by or on the nomination of the body to be a member of some other body prescribed for the purpose of this paragraph ( whether or not that other body falls within any of paragraphs ( ab ) to ( f ) of subsection ( 1 ) above ) , the doing of anything as a member of that other body for the purpose of , or in connection with , the discharge of the functions of that other body . |
| 14 | They could often be seen leaning on farm-yard gates , chewing on straws and marvelling at Noddy 's turn of speed as he roared by in the slipstream of anything from a milk marketing board tanker to a Maserati ! |
| 15 | During the day , take your pick of anything from a pizza to a sizzling steak served at the poolside barbecue grill — and afternoon coffee takes on a flavour all of its own when enjoyed with a fresh pastry cooked before your eyes . |
| 16 | This is subject to an overriding provision that nothing in the relevant Rule or in any order or direction of the court made by virtue of it authorises or requires the doing of anything in a country in which service is to be effected which is contrary to the law of that country . |
| 17 | Thatcher said that there would be no relaxation of anything in the budget . |
| 18 | enough of anything in the world , |
| 19 | At no time had she addressed herself to the credibility or otherwise of anything in the report . |
| 20 | If I remember rightly , you pointed out forcibly that no man would look the side she was on ever again because cheap women had no hope of anything in the future but of being used . |
| 21 | You can go from forty to sixty in point three seconds or something , you can really shoot past anything on the road . |
| 22 | Section 303 of the Companies Act 1985 provides that a company may by ordinary resolution remove a director before the expiration of his or her period of office and despite anything in the company 's articles or in any agreement between the company and the director . |
| 23 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 24 | The versatility of it is the big attraction ; it can sound like anything from a vintage Strat to an Ibanez or a Les Paul , with the mid-boost in it . |
| 25 | Foley looked like anything in the world except a secret agent . |
| 26 | ‘ The programme deals with anything under the sun about football matters . |
| 27 | unclear we will only come on the pitch when you invite us and we will deal with anything off the pitch . |
| 28 | ‘ It is not treated by the trade in Britain with anything like the respect it is given in France . |
| 29 | When the inspectorate is reduced to 175 , it will be virtually impossible for it to produce a report with anything like the quality of those produced in the past . |
| 30 | He said then that the housing market recession had not hit the North East and North Yorkshire with anything like the force with which it had struck the rest of the country . |