Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] anything [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 2 | She had not , Franca found on opening it , ventured to hang anything inside the long wardrobe which stretched the length of the big bedroom . |
| 3 | But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning . |
| 4 | Ask Mr. if he wants to say anything on the main motion . |
| 5 | The chief disadvantages for the collector are the vast amount of space needed to house anything like a representative collection , and its far from attractive appearance , except with bound runs . |
| 6 | It is based on army issue shovels and although very compact could be used to dig anything from a small surface hole to a trench ! |
| 7 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 8 | If it requires to seize anything with the same organ , its tongue will then divide and become forked . |
| 9 | Unfortunately THE CHARWALLAS ( UK ) were either too drunk or too gobsmacked to say anything to the pointy-chested one , only managing a mumbled ‘ Hi ’ . |
| 10 | Gloria did n't pause to say anything to the cheery porter at the gates , nor did he call out to them . |
| 11 | First , any illusions that people may have had about Britain were soon dispelled : Britain still refused to accept anything above a loose intergovernmental structure . |
| 12 | All those things that had once appealed to every instinct inside her for excitement failed to arouse anything but a nagging desire to look at her watch and wonder what time she could reasonably convince André that it was time to leave . |
| 13 | Did you want to say anything on the main motion now er thank you . |
| 14 | Moreover , it is far from clear that the LDDC has managed to obtain anything like the best financial deals in its negotiations with developers : land appears to have been sold at substantially less than might have been achieved , and as the freeholder the LDDC has retained little control of , nor gained any benefit from , subsequent development . |
| 15 | Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place ! |
| 16 | THE REST The return to low-budget film-making by the director of Halloween , John Carpenter , fails to generate anything like the same tension . |
| 17 | However , it was a year of drought , and at the stud all the mares were given daily feeds of oats and hay to keep them in good condition ; but Minyip , due to long habit , refused to eat anything but the poorest hay . |