Example sentences of "[vb infin] anything [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The all-alloy 24-valve twin-cam engine is described by Cosworth as being of the ‘ high-efficiency ’ type , and follows the ‘ modular ’ theory — meaning that the basic design could suit anything from the three-cylinder unit to a V12 . |
| 2 | Great advantage now is you would n't need anything like a high chair |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know anything about a stolen book , ’ Connelly bleated . |
| 5 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 6 | If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately . |
| 7 | And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know ! |
| 8 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 9 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 10 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 11 | But , even if you do n't know anything about the deeper workings , you can apply some common sense guidelines to the same effect . |
| 12 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 13 | They referred to his dependency upon the Black vote ( as though the Democratic Party itself could win anything without the Black vote , and as though Alaska and Vermont were strongholds of Black populations rather than white snow ) . |
| 14 | I certainly do not believe that we can win anything by a formal arrangement with the Liberal Democratic Party . |
| 15 | God does n't give anything to the idle ! |
| 16 | Confusion was muddling her responses , putting up barriers where she 'd give anything for a free and open path forward … |
| 17 | Cos he 's never gon na achieve anything in an ordinary class . |
| 18 | If it did n't , it would n't achieve anything like the stupendous accuracy that I have described . |
| 19 | Even the GenTech wizards , Dr Zarathustra and W. D. Donovan , could only reconstruct a ruined face ; they could n't do anything about a shredded psyche , a ruptured personality , a raped memory … |
| 20 | Community leaders have little expectation that the new government will do anything about the inner-city areas where most blacks and Asians live . |
| 21 | The GenTech labs could n't do anything about the common cold and no government had been able to develop a workable public transport system , but when it came to deathware , why , there were wonderful new toys on the market every fall , just in time for Christmas . |
| 22 | JOHN Carroll will do anything for a quiet life , according to his young daughters . |
| 23 | Louis would do anything for a pretty girl . ’ |
| 24 | Would n't we do anything for a loved one to take us in his or her arms ? |
| 25 | It really is important to get your statement , but first we 've got to see if we can do anything for the poor devil down there . " |
| 26 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 27 | One of Isaac Bashevis Singer 's characters in a short story tells the narrator-author : ‘ You once wrote that human nature is such that one can not do anything in a straight line . |
| 28 | As a result of that , he said , you should never believe anything from the political source except denial — and then you should believe what is denied . |
| 29 | I ca n't remember anything about the whole evening . |
| 30 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |