Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] anything [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be argued that , even if such a statement were true of certain of Friedman 's works , it would not necessarily reveal anything about the man himself and also that the appeal to cognition was irrelevant . |
| 2 | The sums involved are very small and do not cover anything like the cost to the NHS of car accidents . |
| 3 | It may be that the contravener himself has not received anything under the transaction in question . |
| 4 | Several hours later I had not heard anything of the incident , so it seemed likely that the Officer had not reported the matter , or Lovat had just shrugged it off . |
| 5 | Order , I am not in , I am not allowing anything outside the scope of the debate Mr Michael Spicer . |
| 6 | His father had not expected anything of the kind and was disappointed . |
| 7 | We 're not announcing anything about the team at present . |
| 8 | The trustees claim they did not know anything about the clause , are a voluntary body on low income and would be unable to pay a market rent and become responsible for maintenance . |
| 9 | We do not know anything about the nature of her illness . |
| 10 | Mr. Lloyd , counsel for the defendant , has attacked this part of the judgment by relying heavily on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know anything about the power of attorney and her status thereunder . |
| 11 | Science can not know anything of the kind of necessities with which causes compel effects and does not need to suppose that there are any . |
| 12 | When he was asked on 3 June to protect the Catholics in Moorfields , he is said to have replied : ‘ You do not know anything of the business . |
| 13 | These relationships are purely technological , and do not assume anything about the degree of competition . |
| 14 | The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) . |
| 15 | Therefore , although we welcome legislation that deals with the serious issues , and although we have promised to consider it carefully in Committee , we can not do anything about the crime figures . |
| 16 | The archbishop hoped that this offer would be sufficient to restore peace , and Lancaster together with Wake and others swore a solemn oath that they had not done anything against the estate of the king or to the dishonour of his royal lordship . |
| 17 | Imbert has decided not to sell anything from the show because of the poor state of the art market , and with Editions du Regard is publishing a book of the exhibition which will sell , at a loss , for FFr 250 . |
| 18 | Attention has quite justifiably been drawn to the fact that we have not had anything in the way of a Teachers ' Forum for some years . |
| 19 | They 're not paying anything at the moment on laybys . |
| 20 | Half the subjects were given this information in advance but the other half were not told anything about the subject matter of the passage . |
| 21 | He was taken , not recalling anything about the journey , to the home where his father was ; one inmate was kept above stairs , the other below . |
| 22 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 23 | Well I 'm not buying anything at the moment but if you wan na have a look round . |
| 24 | She held his , defiantly and strongly , determined not to do anything of the sort . |
| 25 | On most farms the division of labour has not reached anything like the level of most factories and there is a wider variety of jobs to perform and more job rotation . ’ |
| 26 | They still have not moved in properly , and do not have anything like the quantity of clothes , books , porcelain and paintings which took the Thatchers three days to pack up . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , I 'm not saying anything against the room — it 's just that she might prefer the privacy of a chalet — ’ |
| 28 | I received a letter this morning from the social security office stating that it can not take anything off the income support of one woman who is being pursued for arrears because she is too poor . |
| 29 | Erm you 're now you 're not doing anything at the moment , we we agreed it was resting . |
| 30 | Oh she 's erm , she 's not doing anything at the moment because erm |