Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] anything [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later Branco sent a typically fiendish Brazilian free-kick dipping and swerving past the wall and Van Breukelen , who rarely encountered anything like this in his Nottingham Forest days , punched the ball clear without knowing much about it . |
| 2 | Whilst LIFESPAN will not modify anything in this directory except its own files , the upgrade instructions may assume that only LIFESPAN files are to be found here . |
| 3 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've not heard anything about this . ’ |
| 5 | I had not heard anything about these guys . |
| 6 | If so , why is that we have not heard anything from all those other civilizations out there ? |
| 7 | A mere description , that organisms stay the same for millions of years and then rapidly change , does not explain anything in this time of our rapidly growing understanding of genetic mechanisms . |
| 8 | I myself did not know anything about this and having checked with Gillyan Ford and all Publicity Assistants , found that they too had had no previous indication of the requirement to scan adverts . |
| 9 | We did not expect anything like this could happen in such a small village like Littleover . |
| 10 | We can not do anything about domestic events now , but certainly we would be keen to shown them . |
| 11 | If the government is locked into a policy of expanding the money supply at some pre-announced rate it can not do anything about this possibly severe recession . |
| 12 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
| 13 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
| 14 | If you do not do anything like this , but on the other hand you do walk a fair amount each day ( to the shops , to work , etc. ) record either the distance or the time spent in walking each day . |
| 15 | The Bill was brought forward in response to the outcry from consumers and the industry about the way that , over the years , they have been ripped off by the privatised utilities and the fact that , while the regulators have made a contribution — no one would deny that — they have not done anything like enough and do not have the necessary power or resources to advance consumer interests and issues . |
| 16 | ‘ We have not seen anything of this kind in Britain , ’ added the Commission 's Head of Site Studies . |
| 17 | She could not feel anything at all — the anaesthetic having done its job — and she could not see anything as her eyes were tightly closed . |
| 18 | But EEI President Thomas Kuhn acknowledged that even the most optimistic environmentalists do not believe anything like that number of electric vehicles will be on the streets , even in the next 20 years . |
| 19 | If you do not understand anything in this document you should go to a solicitor , or Legal Advice Centre or a Citizen 's Advice Bureau . |
| 20 | 269 did not look anything like enough ; and when West Indies reached 260 for 1 it looked positively minute . |
| 21 | With a turnover rate of 3000 gph , a 12-month guarantee and running costs similar to other pumps that can not claim anything like that water-shifting capability , the Omua looks a winner . |
| 22 | Do not be disappointed if you do not see anything of either of these events . |
| 23 | All hon. Members are consumed by analysing how much money has been spent and whether more money will be made available for particular services , but we do not spend anything like enough time considering whether that money is well spent . |
| 24 | But she could not remember anything at all about them . |
| 25 | You have another country along that coast , Nigeria , which has just got to the stage where it 's got through its forest and it 's not exporting anything at all , if anything it 's importing . |
| 26 | He 'd soon miss anything like that . ’ |
| 27 | We were not expecting anything like that . ’ |
| 28 | That proposition has much support among lawyers , and even more among laymen , but our sample cases show that it does not command anything like universal assent among judges in the United States . |
| 29 | It left a very deep scar on the community and people are determined not to let anything like that happen again ’ . |
| 30 | It is now clear that the review has not reached anything like that stage of progress . |