Example sentences of "in any [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would give the electricity supply industry the free run of the distribution network , while consumers could signal in any way they liked on their own mains wiring without bothering anyone . |
| 2 | Boniface wrote to Ecgberht , archbishop of York , authorizing him to amend the letter in any way he thought desirable , and to Herefrith , a priest , who was to make known Boniface 's views to Aethelbald by reading the letter to him and explaining it — Herefrith being one to whom Aethelbald was prepared to listen . |
| 3 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
| 4 | It would be up to God to wind up the clockwork and set the universe going in any way He wanted . |
| 5 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 6 | ‘ The sovereign Parliament quite clearly could limit the potential activities of its creatures in any way it liked . ’ |
| 7 | From now on , she would touch him in any way she pleased , even when neither of them was feeling sexy , because she would still be feeling loving — for as long as the affair lasted . |
| 8 | The prince always let her spend her money in any way she liked . |
| 9 | I would be happy for you to use it in any way you felt appropriate . |
| 10 | Talking to Nephthys was a way of getting to know her dead sister by proxy , for she had plenty of spirit , and within her there was a streak of rebellion against her family , particularly her father , though there was no hint of it in any word she spoke . |
| 11 | The successful negotiation of a large French loan to Russia in April 1906 , a matter of supreme importance to statesmen in St Petersburg hard-pressed by defeat and revolution , immediately reduced the need for such payments ; and it is very doubtful whether in any case they made any real difference to the course of events . |
| 12 | Hardly , one would think , since such occurrences were by no means rare at this period , and in any case they came to the rescue in every possible way . |
| 13 | And in any case they wanted them back as soon as possible , and there would be the interest to pay . |
| 14 | In any case they did not inherit the doctrinaire restrictions of their elders . |
| 15 | However , no money was to be spent on florists ' bouquets or wreaths , and in any case we 'd both always hated to see flowers wired and thrust into stiff , unnatural arrangements . |
| 16 | We lost an awful lot of merchant vessels , and in any case we wanted those boats to bring armaments across , not food . |
| 17 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 18 | But she knew that any attempt at this sort of seductive sophistication would be laughably incongruous coming from her quiet , ordinary little self , and in any case she had made no serious plans to leave , so she simply said steadily , ‘ That 's very nice of you , Dr Russell , but I have n't fully worked out my plans yet , and if I do leave I 'll probably sign on with a nursing agency . |
| 19 | In any case she did n't answer my question . |
| 20 | At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant . |
| 21 | In any case she did not know what it was to be and took refuge in the business of drawing the cups and the teapot towards her . |
| 22 | In any case he seemed reluctant to become engaged in a ground war — except possibly to retain the rich prize of Malaya and its rubber . |
| 23 | He had reasoned that , even if they could n't talk there , the morning concert might do her some good , that she had never willingly set foot out of the flat since it happened , that in any case he had a father 's responsibility towards his younger sister , and he had promised to go and hear her . |
| 24 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 25 | In any case he had the deepest contempt , first to last , for the facile conceptualising that often passes for advanced thought , rather like Orwell 's contempt for W. H. Auden 's partisan poem ‘ Spain' ( 1937 ) : |
| 26 | In any case he had dangerous worries on his own doorstep . |
| 27 | In any case he had more pressing matters to worry about . |
| 28 | He may have felt nervous about having plundered Calcutta or he may have thought he had done enough to show who was master in Bengal , but in any case he withdrew and paid the Company some compensation for its losses . |
| 29 | In view of his experience at Highgate School , he had always been interested in the life and tribulations of schools teachers ; and in any case he held strong views about education , about which he lacked an opportunity to state his ideas at length until he gave some lectures in Chicago in 1950 . |
| 30 | In any case it seemed at this point that the war might be lost , and only a month after finishing the poem he was expressing to Martin Browne grave misgivings about the worth and value of his poetic activities , which often appeared to be futile . |