Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [verb] [prep] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Max Weber was an ardent nationalist whose political sociology was guided by the principle of the ‘ primacy of the interests of the nation state ’ , which he enunciated vigorously in his inaugural lecture at Freiburg in 1895 ; but he did not set himself to examine with any thoroughness the grounds of such ‘ primacy ’ . |
| 2 | This study has now been tied to a vision of Englishness which is itself insulated from any concern with cultural power and control . |
| 3 | The boy was not then aware , of course , of how frequently an idling or unanchored mind can be disturbed by the accidental experience of receiving luminous images from out of clear , sharp light when it is itself cast in any sort of shadow . |
| 4 | But the family , varied in its forms , is not itself determined by any necessity , logic or rationale . |
| 5 | Aunt Tossie could never bring herself to disapprove of any man , however loaded with mischief ; she preferred men like that . |
| 6 | Even worse , you could not , predict when , since you could find yourself re-emerging at any time , past or present . |
| 7 | The Marquis of Tweeddale , when reporting Murray 's demand to the Duke of Montrose , remarked of the young gentleman who thus intended to begin an academic career that he was ‘ scearce one & twenty but people think themselves fitt for any post in this countrey ’ . |
| 8 | I 've never myself known of any adult getting away with going over 107 . |