Example sentences of "[art] [pron] [verb] any [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He said well if you go and make the he said any time between now and Christmas , you 'll have to come and have a meal on the house , I thought I 'm bloody sure I will !
2 No one displayed any interest in what she really was .
3 They were in their early thirties , so 1 did not feel too out of place from the point of view of age , and at first no one took any notice of me , as if they thought I was just another mature student .
4 No one took any notice of Behan , so he got angry and fired a bottle of whiskey at a shelf , breaking all the glasses … ‘
5 No one took any notice of him .
6 No one took any notice .
7 ‘ He was trying to flag down cars to help , but no one took any notice .
8 Back when no one took any notice of them , they kept the band together to entertain themselves .
9 Knocking ‘ I kept knocking on the boards but no one took any notice . ’
10 No one took any notice .
11 No one took any notice of auction estimates and the media loved the idea of naming names ’ .
12 I thought I heard her say that she 'd packed the gallery , but she was lighting a cigarette and no one took any notice of this remark .
13 No one took any notice of him .
14 No one took any notice of him when he arrived back in Mouncy Street .
15 No one made any attempt at all to see any of the good things about it .
16 A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway .
17 Do too little and no one takes any notice ; do a vast number of papers and you may be accused of superficiality or lack of care .
18 Until recently , no one had any idea how these effects came about .
19 Because no one had any idea of how to treat his illness , Moritz was kept in a locked ward for his own and for other patients ' safety .
20 Although this event would signify the end not merely of another king in the nation , but of a dynasty which had so far extended unbroken into prehistory , no one had any idea just when it would take place .
21 His dog tags had been blown off in the blast and the head wound had severely damaged his memory so that no one had any idea of his identity .
22 One very important thing that I had noticed since we landed in Normandy five days ago was that no one had any problem with insomnia. quite the reverse .
23 And if it did n't live up to the investor 's rigorous standards , no one had any doubt that he would make good his threat of withdrawing his backing .
24 No one had any reason to suspect a second . ’
25 Why do you think Reni said that no one had any reason to suspect a second killing ? ’
26 No one had any reason to suspect .
27 No one had any observation to make , until Robert Bossu took it upon himself , very amiably , to give voice to a consent otherwise expressed in silence .
28 No one had any comment to make for the excellent reason that everyone had already been convinced of the fact .
29 " No one had any coffee after all , " she said , picking up the heavy tray .
30 McCawley ( 1976 ) asserts that sentences which are universally judged as grammatical are simply those for which no one has any difficulty in thinking of uses .
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