Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] of any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Gunn means by this is , I think , that everyone realises the risks but yet we all feel a tendency to delude ourselves of any possibility that it might happen to us . |
| 2 | How many days it was out of service and this that and the other and erm they used to send us an invoice on the mileage run because at the same time we knew what tyres were on the bus we had to inform them of any tyre changes and they kept records the same as us . |
| 3 | The pursuit of sexual satisfaction at work will completely rob you of any job satisfaction . |
| 4 | They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else . |
| 5 | It plucks a long grass stem , carefully strips it of any side leaves it may have and then pokes it down one of the entrance holes of a termite nest . |
| 6 | For pet cats this can be strangely disfiguring , upsetting the neat balance of the Siamese sealpoint pattern , and for pedigree show cats it can be disastrous , robbing them of any chance of winning a competition , at least until another whole growth of hairs has occurred and the white ones replaced in their turn . |
| 7 | It is corrupt ; it has betrayed the ideals you worked for , and it has robbed you of any position . ’ |
| 8 | These deliberate modernities should clear him of any charge of merely insulated ‘ ivory tower ’ escapism . |
| 9 | The defendant may apply for directions as to whether any third person with a competing claim should be joined and if that third person fails to appear on such a successful application the court may deprive him of any right of action against the defendant . |
| 10 | Note We will make payments as stated above provided ( a ) the injured clients notify us of any claim for personal injury within 3 months of their return from holiday ; ( b ) they assign to Horizon Holidays Ltd. any rights against a supplier or any other person or party they may have relating to the claim ; and ( c ) they agree to co-operate fully with us should we or our insurers wish to enforce those rights which have been assigned to us or to which we are subrogated . |
| 11 | Here , as at Liberi , he was happy , and we hear nothing of any initiative on his part to bring his exile to an end or to settle the issue — chiefly his frustrated desire to hold a council — which had precipitated his exile . |
| 12 | ‘ But you know nothing of any kidnap ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You know nothing of any woman in his life ? ’ |
| 14 | Police know nothing of any accident . |
| 15 | It looks very substantial on the surface , but when one looks below the surface , one finds nothing of any substance . |
| 16 | This application is for a lesser number of flats , but is not , is looking to clear itself of any encumbrance over occu occupancy . |
| 17 | ‘ Just as they will take everything of any value in Ireland . |
| 18 | Those who seek to repair the damage caused by the creation of more wealth are only locking us more deeply into the source of the evil ; and Labour 's submission to this cruel belief robs it of any claim to significant opposition to the existing order . |
| 19 | But do you think her of any use in the family ? |
| 20 | Could you tell me of any water proofing kit for my 1987 One Ten . |
| 21 | He knew nothing of any advance further to the west near Mons. |
| 22 | For the same money y they will also tell you of any enquiry in your area , because somebody might not have mentioned favours , but anybody they know and it 's a photographer here as well because they 're fundamentally photographers , erm they will tell you everybody they know who 's going to have er a wedding coming up and then you can write to them . |
| 23 | Impatience with her own see-saw emotions robbed her of any desire for sleep . |
| 24 | Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students ; he showed him the terrible , the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to , or change it . |
| 25 | Do n't forget to advise them of any change in your financial affairs . |
| 26 | A former suitor , Mr Feery , the family lawyer , maliciously suggested that she had murdered him , and her brother had to summon a coroner and jury , which , in the event , cleared her of any guilt . |
| 27 | ‘ [ I ] t mystifies the real world and deprives us of any understanding of it ’ ; ‘ we become part of the symbolism of the ad world ; not real people but identified in terms of what we consume . ’ |
| 28 | All this was done by the morning of the I twelfth day ; and all that day the people of the Cid were busied in making ready their arms , and in loading beasts with all that they had , so that they left nothing of any price in the whole city of Valencia , save only the empty houses . |
| 29 | I will show why the hon. Gentleman has achieved nothing of any worth or substance by his protest . |
| 30 | Leaping from bed to be done learns nothing of any depth . ’ |