Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Well , I 'm sure he 'd want to help any way he can , but I do n't rightly see — ’ |
2 | ‘ I 'd like to see any sperrit hidin' there , with Mrs Blunt comin' in to clean faithful and reg'lar for the last seven years . |
3 | ‘ If you 'd like to come any time … that would be … it would be all right . ’ |
4 | ‘ Surely with all the talk of a madman she 'd have volunteered any information the moment Channing crossed the threshold ? ’ |
5 | ‘ I doubt if you 'd have had any choice , ’ said Hugh with sympathy , ‘ and certainly you have none now . ’ |
6 | Afterwards he 'd sworn he would prefer to see any child of his six foot under rather than taken for a nun . |
7 | Despite this , however , I would want to resist any notion that culture has a primacy here , and it 's worth recording , I think , the unfortunate trend , especially in the United States , to a textual feminism , in which social and historical issues are increasingly obscured . |
8 | It seems to go against common-sense notions that individuals would want to hide any misdemeanours or crimes . |
9 | The report would need to include any denial by the police , but it might go on to comment that whether the allegations were true or not , their existence undermined the confidence of the community in the officers , and for this reason the officers should be transferred . |
10 | On the other hand , forecasters in the weather service have access to a lot of non-satellite data — from recording instruments on the ground for instance — which , presumably , a company would need to make any sense of the data from space . |
11 | So although one would seek to eradicate any sense of prejudice against employing mentally handicapped people , there is no justification for positive prejudice on behalf of the mentally handicapped . |
12 | The proposal foundered on British and American fears that the Soviet Union wanted , for its own purposes , to provoke another civil war in Spain and that it would seek to manipulate any Security Council debate to that end . |
13 | I would like to take any situation and get something out of it . |
14 | These users were asked whether they had used the catalogue before , whether they found what they were looking for and whether they had any particular problems or would like to make any suggestions for improving the catalogue . |
15 | If you would like to make any suggestions on the content of the members ' evening , please contact Vic Smith or myself as soon as possible . |
16 | If you would like to make any comments or suggestions on these proposals please write before 13 October 1980 to : . |
17 | If you would like to make any comments or suggestions on these proposals please write before 13 December 1979 to : . |
18 | We would like to discuss any changes you have made in the areas of working practices , the relationship between management and labour , and the relationship between various managerial groups . |
19 | He would like to hear any information available on AEAs preferred strategy for privatisation and would like to know what will happen over terms and conditions for staff when Government division and Commercial division diverge . |
20 | I ca n't afford to replace them , so I was wondering if any of your readers would like to donate any Guitarist s they may have and no longer read . |
21 | She was dressed simply enough in a brown gown with a lacy ruff round the neck but she would have outshone any queen . |
22 | It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house . |
23 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
24 | It did not seem likely that the Sun , at any rate , would have felt any qualms about printing it in full . |
25 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
26 | Previously , their fire policies would have covered any damage caused by terrorism . |
27 | Jesus forecast that before the cock crowed twice he would have denied any knowledge of Jesus three times . |
28 | They say belts would have prevented any injuries in wales … |
29 | Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith sympathised with the general outlook and tried to prepare people for the necessary discussion and negotiations which would have to precede any expression of national opinion and the consequent negotiation with the British Government . |
30 | The contrast between the two men would have struck any observer that morning . |