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 | But , even if you do n't know anything about the deeper workings , you can apply some common sense guidelines to the same effect . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | God does n't give anything to the idle ! |
| 12 | If it did n't , it would n't achieve anything like the stupendous accuracy that I have described . |
| 13 | Community leaders have little expectation that the new government will do anything about the inner-city areas where most blacks and Asians live . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I ca n't remember anything about the whole evening . |
| 19 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |
| 20 | The same kind of accident used to be common with gliders , and the pilots could never remember anything after the first bounce . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't see anything beyond the third target , ’ he said . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Neither did the very many railwaymen who were concerned with passengers , nor , since the canal companies did not usually operate as carriers , did they employ anything like the same number of men in handling freight . |
| 25 | Secondly , is this the earliest pattern in this area and , if not , can we detect anything of the previous arrangement ? |
| 26 | Internationally patented , Brewking is free of chemicals and sold widely in Europe , particularly in Germany where the nation 's drinkers wo n't drink anything but the purest beer . |
| 27 | I , who can not reach anything on the top shelf at the supermarket ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | schools and they 'll They probably wo n't manage anything in the next week because the schools are going on holiday at |
| 30 | 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 . |