Example sentences of "[subord] anyone in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his great hands , Jimmy returned the fast serve better than anyone in the history of the game . |
| 2 | The Labour Party showed more faith than anyone in the medicine of the pollsters and strategists , believing they has found in it the panacea for their 13-year malaise . |
| 3 | Alcock , the man with the astronomical memory , probably knows the sky better than anyone in the world , possibly in history . |
| 4 | However , USL has recently claimed that it will configure Destiny to run applications of all persuasions — including Solaris — ( UX No 380 ) , Zander says ‘ if they can do that they 're better than anyone in the world . ’ |
| 5 | She had known Connor O'Dell for nearly ten years now — she knew him better than anyone in the world — and tonight , she knew without any shadow of doubt that he was lying to her . |
| 6 | I mean , you know me better than anyone in the world , you probably love me better than anyone in the world , but you still never know another person one hundred per cent . ’ |
| 7 | I mean , you know me better than anyone in the world , you probably love me better than anyone in the world , but you still never know another person one hundred per cent . ’ |
| 8 | IF anyone in the Government has a conscience , I hope it was pricked by your terribly moving picture of Belinda Giles asking Santa to keep open London 's St Bartholomew 's Hospital , where she is being treated for cancer . |
| 9 | So Balder Head must have had some architectural significance or other , although I doubt if anyone in the dale realized it . |
| 10 | If anyone in the club had been left with any doubt that you and I are in love , that touching little display on the dance floor must have convinced them otherwise . ’ |
| 11 | Nevertheless , this happened to many , but I would question if anyone in the Command had amassed the experience of Fraser Barron in such a relatively short time . |
| 12 | You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one . |
| 13 | She wished she could confide in Ella , but it was far too risky and she knew she would feel worse if anyone in the house knew about the baby . |
| 14 | Thus while anyone in the world , with normal physical resources , can watch dance or look at sculpture or listen to music , still some forty per cent of the world 's present inhabitants can make no contact whatever with a piece of writing , and in earlier periods this percentage was very much larger . |
| 15 | Harold was as well-mannered , she considered , as anyone in the University , including the stiff old Prebendary Porkadder , who lived in the next-door house with his housekeeper . |
| 16 | There is , as anyone in the racket knows , a kind of trap between the printer and the writer that will box things up if possible , in spite of the best efforts on both sides . |
| 17 | But they 've pulled off a surprise or two , Courtney Walsh has looked as good a bowler as anyone in the country and one or two new names , have emerged . |
| 18 | This quote from Portsmouth manager , Jim Smith , is about Mark Chamberlain ( remember him ? ) but sums ups the breed : ‘ On his day he can be as good as anyone in the country . |
| 19 | The only problem with the theory , from the point of view of a journalist , is that agents — as opinionated and informed as anyone in the trade — are rightly jealous of their relationships with editors and publishers , and so they refuse to be quoted on anything critical . |
| 20 | ‘ I am top of the averages of the England bowlers selected and I think I am bowling as well as anyone in the side at the moment . |