Example sentences of "[prep] anyone [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 2 | I was working on my own and I was n't aware of anyone doing similar work — or that anyone would be interested in what I was doing . ’ |
| 3 | Although Charlie was still thin — now a flyweight — and not all that tall , once his seventeenth birthday had come and gone he noticed that the ladies on the corner of the Whitechapel Road , who were still placing white feathers on anyone wearing civilian clothes who looked as if they might be between the ages of eighteen and forty , were beginning to eye him like impatient vultures . |
| 4 | Mr Begg called on anyone experiencing genuine hardship over payment of poll tax arrears to contact the council . |
| 5 | Mr Begg called on anyone experiencing genuine hardship to contact the council . |
| 6 | The Oracle responds at once to anyone entering this chamber , and asks them slowly in his husky , graveyard voice what they wish with him . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , ( 219 ) is the equivalent of " Postulate AB = CD " , which is to say that let is an instruction to anyone reading this sentence to conceive AB as equal to CD . |
| 8 | The theory of natural selection first propounded by Charles Darwin ( 1858 ) is a cornerstone of biological thought and its appreciation is essential to anyone asking evolutionary questions in relation to human social behaviour . |
| 9 | To anyone approaching this verse with a background in rabbinic or medieval Hebrew , the A-line is quite ambiguous : is " eternity " or " the world , universe " ? |
| 10 | The guide to the River Irthing in the same issue failed to mention a 10m fall in its bombing range section below Forster 's Hill although it should be fairly obvious to anyone finding enough water to paddle this section . |
| 11 | lies in the fact that ‘ the offspring behave like wolves and look like dogs … this ‘ camouflage ’ gives them a tremendous competitive advantage because , as ‘ dogs ’ , they can approach garbage dumps in populated areas or herds of sheep without anyone taking special notice , much less reaching for a rifle ’ . |
| 12 | without anyone having any choice in the matter , what value a thing possesses . |
| 13 | An attractive proposition for anyone seeking substantial highlights at a very reasonable price . ( ) |
| 14 | Apparent exceptions were put on one side to await later explanation within the Newtonian framework ; and this was the proper attitude for anyone wanting public recognition as a good scientist . |
| 15 | If you are interested please contact Margaret or Hilda at the Office — NOW — Overnight accommodation can be arranged for anyone travelling long distance . |
| 16 | Murray 's father appealled for anyone withholding important information to consider the anguish his family is going through . |
| 17 | All the same , I said , if they came across anyone fitting that description in their care , please would they tell George Burley his name and room number . |
| 18 | The PPL licence is required by anyone using commercial sound recordings on their premises , in addition to the licence issued by the Performing Rights Society ( PRS ) . |
| 19 | Considerable resistance may be encountered by anyone challenging these rationalisations. v. Intellectualisation — interminable insistence upon precise definitions of terms and insistence upon pointing out minor differences rather than major similarities in the behaviour of the primary sufferers or family members when compared with others . |