Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pippo continued to bother us , though we had long since stopped taking any notice of him , and the Allied air attacks continued . |
| 2 | It was to change the nature of France 's regime , so that the nation would be better placed to meet any challenge or resolve any problem that it might have to face . |
| 3 | So bang went any chance he might have had of hearing things he did not know . |
| 4 | HONG KONG — China reacted angrily yesterday to Hong Kong 's decision to move a centrally-located British naval base to an outlying island , a switch apparently designed to undercut any plans China had for a high-profile military presence after 1997 , writes Kevin Hamlin . |
| 5 | Perhaps Mr. Cowan should resume his more normal incessant political instruction on those matters that puzzle the lesser members of our own contemporary society , who are obviously deemed to lack any ability to think for themselves . |
| 6 | you 've only got to see any tax that goes up and everyone 's up in arms about it . |
| 7 | On this bright morning she was especially inspired to follow any clue leading to almost any little act of kindness or deed of love . |
| 8 | The bestowal of a right upon a third party gives rise to expectations on the part of that third party that the parties will act in conformity with the treaty in their relations with itself ; without necessarily having made any commitment of its own it will see itself as the beneficiary of the exchange of promises between the parties . |
| 9 | The investors or Newco 's lawyers will obviously wish to examine any documents of title to the assets . |
| 10 | It now looks likely that pension schemes will only have to backdate any equalisation of benefits between men and women to those in service on or after 17 May 1990 . |
| 11 | According to the Court of Appeal in Tagro v Cafane this requires the valuer to assume that he can sell it on the open market to a willing buyer , and in so doing to ignore any covenant against assignment which restricts alienation of the landlord 's interest . |
| 12 | When parents or teachers mock our desire to become a deep-sea diver , an opera singer or a portrait artist , and encourage us to have more ‘ sensible ’ ambitions — perhaps to become a nurse , bank clerk or accountant — we obediently wrap up our fantasies with a label which reads ‘ This is an impossible dream ’ , and so fail to take any steps to make those dreams come true . |
| 13 | But Rome did not merely refuse to send any representative to Amsterdam . |
| 14 | His lips traced the curves his finger had explored , and then he delved sensuously deeper , his tongue finding hers and abruptly intensifying the embrace , as if the intimacy of their tongues together had driven any intentions of reserve and restraint from his mind … |
| 15 | I had never been so tempted to hit any man as I was at that moment . |
| 16 | This emotion which , even as I planned to drive to Prague , while admitting only to liking you well enough to want to ease any problems that might arise , made me instruct Lubor … ’ |
| 17 | Another trial carried out in New Zealand , and widely quoted in the medical literature , apparently failed to find any link between the mother 's diet and colic in breast-fed babies . |
| 18 | While use of mortality as the sole criterion of therapeutic efficacy in intensive care units is open to debate , these studies have all failed to show any cost benefit ; in one , selective decontamination of the gut doubled the total cost of antimicrobial drugs . |
| 19 | In 1967 the British presence in the Middle East obviously failed to offer any protection to British oil interests during the Arab-Israeli war . |
| 20 | Now go ahead to reach Piazza Giuseppe Missori , a square dominated less by the buildings , which are not well enough ordered to impose any discipline on the place , than by the statue of General Missori himself . |
| 21 | The shock of the change of circumstances was sufficiently numbing to dampen any inclination to run riot , particularly after the painful build up of events which led to the final arrest . |
| 22 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 23 | I have , by and large , already stopped taking any notice . " |
| 24 | Propositions like " Men exist ( or actually exist ) " , it is claimed , look odd and mysterious , and their quantified " canonical " paraphrases , while admittedly helping to remove any suggestion that such propositions might have a subject/predicate structure , do not quite succeed in alleviating the mystery . |
| 25 | It changes the taste of food to the extent that some dishes no longer appear to have any connection with their oil-less counterparts : a fresh sardine , for example , is quite different from one which has been transformed by being preserved in oil ( a point implied by the existence in the Czech language of two quite different words for the fresh and the oil varieties : a sardine in oil is called olejovka , from olej=oil ) . |
| 26 | ‘ By a quite exceptional oversight , ’ said Rufus , ‘ I do n't just happen to have any picture postcards of the Acropolis about me at present . ’ |
| 27 | He liked Hana 's mother well enough but she had just refused to learn any English at all , and every visit was a strain . |
| 28 | Both explosion and collapse are separately defined to avoid any confusion with explosion which would be covered by fire insurance . |
| 29 | They may well be cumulative , since poorer groups can less easily afford to bear any organization costs , whereas the wealthy can meet similar costs easily . |
| 30 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |