Example sentences of "he do [adv] [vb infin] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably a feeling of despair enveloped him and he began to feel quite helpless ; his heart was in his studies and he knew that if he could manage financially he could achieve his academic rewards , but the insufficient amounts of money his father allowed him did n't permit any freedom to relax after his studies had ended . |
| 2 | Society boss Geoffrey Lister said he did not expect any economic recovery in the immediate future . |
| 3 | He stated that he did not expect any hostility when he returned to London . |
| 4 | Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh announced on Sept. 17 that his investigation into the Iran-contra scandal was nearing its end , and that " in the absence of some new development " he did not expect any further indictments in connection with the affair . |
| 5 | Prost , who claimed his 12th pole in 13 races this year , admitted he did not expect any special team orders to help him to his 52nd career victory . |
| 6 | He did not want any trouble in his respectable hostelry , and both customers were touchy . |
| 7 | Under fire for his handling of the economy and his personal finances , Mr Lamont said he did not want any other Government job . |
| 8 | He did not want any services and did not see counselling help as a service a social worker might offer , nor did he want to share any grieving for his wife . |
| 9 | He said , on repeated occasions , that he did not want any more families . |
| 10 | ‘ He did not want any friends , ’ John Openshaw went on , ‘ and he often drank a lot . |
| 11 | He promised in the Chamber that he did not want any volunteers to be turned away from offering their service , and I am sure that he will do his best to keep that promise . |
| 12 | President Jaime Paz Zamora , claiming that he did not want any confusion between " electoral campaigning and government work " , accepted the resignations of three other ADN ministers and one from the Left Revolutionary Front ( FRI ) . |
| 13 | A Commons committee decided yesterday not to accept Mr Lamont 's claim that he did not break any rules by using the cash to evict sex therapist Sara Dale from his London home . |
| 14 | But the man behind the burger deal , cathedral chapter clerk Christopher Owen , said yesterday : ‘ He did not make any objection to this particular promotion . ’ |
| 15 | He did not make any attempt to eliminate from his voice his complete disbelief in what he was saying . |
| 16 | He did not make any effort to adapt any aspect of the liturgy and did not even mention the occasion . |
| 17 | He did not offer any alternative explanation for apparent design , but left the question open . |
| 18 | Besides , being so late in the season he did not anticipate any difficulty ; although there was something else to which he had not given any thought . |
| 19 | Although he did not achieve any recognition from the United States that the USSR was an ‘ equal ’ power , he did secure an American guarantee not to invade Cuba , which has diminished the spectre of how the Soviet Union would respond to such an event . |
| 20 | He did not waste any energy in trying to break free of the mask , because he knew it to be pointless ; the Robemaker 's dark enchantments were seldom broken and he knew , as well , that there would be far worse torments ahead . |
| 21 | He did not place any constraints on input . |
| 22 | ‘ Pimm 's … ’ she said huskily , grateful he did not ask any painful questions , questions she could not have answered . |
| 23 | I did not struggle , and spoke politely to him , although I knew he did not understand any of my languages . |
| 24 | This must be because he did not know any observations of it : Darwin was interested by every possible form of moral behaviour in animals , and if he had known of restrained fighting , he would have written about it . |
| 25 | He did not notice any . |
| 26 | But he was still thinking of Fanny , and he did not risk any money on the horses . |
| 27 | There was the German from Maple Drive known as ‘ The Nazi who Escaped justice from Nuremberg ’ , who , although he did not own any kind of pet , bared his teeth like an Alsatian … |
| 28 | He did not receive any payment for his work with the fund . |
| 29 | Kenneth Taylor , who said he did not receive any extra payment other than his normal wages , was giving evidence at the High Court in Aberdeen on the second day of the trial of Alexander Murray . |
| 30 | That occurred although Lord Morison , the Court of Session judge who issued the new decree , made it absolutely clear after listening to all the evidence , that he did not consider any of the allegations made by Mr Vafa 's former wife , or her father , to have been well founded or substantiated . |