Example sentences of "[vb infin] anything [prep] the [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 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know ! |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | God does n't give anything to the idle ! |
| 11 | If it did n't , it would n't achieve anything like the stupendous accuracy that I have described . |
| 12 | Community leaders have little expectation that the new government will do anything about the inner-city areas where most blacks and Asians live . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . " |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I ca n't remember anything about the whole evening . |
| 17 | Only if he really craned his neck sideways could he see anything of the front bedroom windows and then not enough to make the effort worthwhile . |
| 18 | At first we could n't see anything on the white backing but then Eadred brought across a candle , held it near the page , not quite close enough to scorch , and sea-green writing began to appear . |
| 19 | Secondly , is this the earliest pattern in this area and , if not , can we detect anything of the previous arrangement ? |
| 20 | I , who can not reach anything on the top shelf at the supermarket ? |
| 21 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 22 | Although his conservative clothing and mild manners did n't show it , he was becoming a ‘ Right-On ’ , and he would support anything on the new agenda . |
| 23 | Although the depopulation of the Western Isles has resulted at least partly from such malign human interventions as the clearances , it is doubtful if they could support anything like the past numbers at levels of living acceptable by present-day standards . |
| 24 | The other thing that is important is that I do n't think you can get anything on the cheap . |
| 25 | Until any of the other ones bear fruit , because the Guildhall I ca n't get anything on the elections till April the sixth , erm I ca n't get anything from the Scottish tapes until they start arriving , erm whatever . |
| 26 | But the record since 1945 suggests that it is highly improbable that the British people will play anything like the major role in the affairs of mankind in the twenty-first century that they have done so frequently , if often unavailingly , in the course of the twentieth . |
| 27 | In particular , the area around the Arabian Gulf is an ideal site for a space launch centre that could , ultimately , rival anything in the developed world . |
| 28 | ‘ I shall get into something comfortable , ’ she said , ‘ and then I sha n't want anything for the whole afternoon . ’ |
| 29 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 30 | Well I have n't said , her , heard anybody say anything about the grand old tradition of switching on the television set , and I 've a horrible feeling that er that th that the one day in the year when people want to get together with their families probably means switching off the television set . |