Example sentences of "one [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But how does one make any sense of Berlin ? |
2 | Any one got any Harry |
3 | ‘ No one made any attempt at all to see any of the good things about it . |
4 | McCawley ( 1976 ) asserts that sentences which are universally judged as grammatical are simply those for which no one has any difficulty in thinking of uses . |
5 | No one has any idea how much the Wertheimer brothers who own Chanel pay Lagerfeld but it is estimated to run into millions . |
6 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
7 | My father was like that , the ‘ parfit gentle knight ’ , who would hurt no one , believed in honour , truth , courtesy , all those old-fashioned virtues that no one has any time for . |
8 | ‘ No one has any interest in the classics today , ’ he said . |
9 | The opposite of this is called " perfect contestability " — no one has any power in the market , particularly the established firm(s) . |
10 | While no one has any right to walk straight into a well-paid job for life , it is n't just the out-of-work graduates that suffer . |
11 | No one has any right to treat you like that . |
12 | Moreover , the accident occurred over two months ago and no one has any reason to refute the obvious , that the King is dead and lies buried at Jedburgh Abbey . |
13 | Nor can one feel any sympathy for the various ladies in his life , all of whom conform outwardly to the strict etiquette of the enclosed society of the Austrian court . |
14 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
15 | He would ring her up every couple of months or so and invite her to the opera , or to dinner and no one paid any attention to this . |
16 | ‘ No one paid any attention . |
17 | Miss Phoebe murmured something about : ‘ Being sure there was no need for … ’ but no one paid any attention because Sally Dade had opened the door , announcing : |
18 | There is no need — ’ But no one paid any attention to him . |
19 | Russia was in the last resort not prepared to fight and the crisis fizzled out ; no one paid any attention to the Turkish contention that Ferdinand 's title was illegal . |
20 | " Let us have tea on the lawn again ! " shouted the Collector from the window , but no one paid any attention to him . |
21 | A week ago I saw a monkey in the street jump on a donkey and try to wank him off — the donkey brayed and kicked , the monkey 's owner shouted , the monkey itself squealed — apart from two or three children who laughed and me who found it very funny , no one paid any attention . |
22 | No one paid any attention to me . |
23 | No one paid any attention . |
24 | No one saw her — or , if they did , no one paid any heed to her . |
25 | The days of being the last one to leave any night out — ‘ I was the sort who was afraid he was missing out on something ’ — were then at an end . |
26 | If a snake is encountered no one takes any chances . |
27 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
28 | Do too little and no one takes any notice ; do a vast number of papers and you may be accused of superficiality or lack of care . |
29 | No one displayed any interest in what she really was . |
30 | The court in Greenstein said that an accused could be dishonest even though no one lost any money . |