Example sentences of "[v-ing] anything [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do be very wary please about buying anything from a street trader . |
| 2 | I do n't remember him saying anything about a job . ’ |
| 3 | He denied knowing anything about a plan to abduct the driver or that guns might have been involved . |
| 4 | It is worth checking your essay to make sure that you are not presupposing things which you do n't believe are true , and that you are n't hiding anything in a presupposition which needs to be made explicit and justified . |
| 5 | There is no chance of finally learning anything during a lecture , but there is a good chance that difficulties encountered in the study can be illuminated . |
| 6 | Songs and sketches find her playing anything from a charity ball organiser to a TV agony aunt ( Irish , like Dillie herself ) . |
| 7 | The process of making anything from a switch to a civil airliner is subject to improvements in speed , quality and cost reduction which follow the characteristic learning curve . |
| 8 | He had n't concentrated on one thing for years now as he had when he 'd started collecting stamps at the age of nine , so careful , so worried , so never leaving anything for a minute that could be done straight away by him . |
| 9 | It ignores the erosion of confidence created by asset deflation and the role of high real interest rates , at this point in the cycle , in preventing anything like a re-run of the early 1980s recovery . |