Example sentences of "anything [adv] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver 's sharp sensitive features and figure adapted well to Sam Weller , but tonight he wished he 'd chosen anything rather than the trial scene from The Pickwick Papers to read . |
| 2 | Perhaps it 's the pipistrelle bats and that 's why , if I looked , I would n't see anything outside but a disturbance of shadow . |
| 3 | of a well not exactly a disaster , but if ev if ever you 're in some sort of uncomfortable plight er stuck in a train or anything like that the way t to cope is to go off to sleep if you can |
| 4 | At this distance I hardly think we 'd trigger anything even if the bomb was activated , but no chances . |
| 5 | But as a political shibboleth it was raised to all-powerful heights and was used as a battering-ram to silence any suggestion by anybody that one might ever spend more on anything even if the aim of spending more immediately was to spend less later . |
| 6 | I never wanted to be anything else but a nurse . |
| 7 | Says Sir Timothy Turtle , ‘ My daughters ne'er look In anything else but a cookery-book : The properest study for women designed . ’ |
| 8 | The the He was the old teacher and he and his sister never spoke anything else but the Gaelic . |
| 9 | Why I do n't know , but his sister and him never spoke anything else but the Gaelic . |
| 10 | All these marriages took place during the Great War and it is a matter of generation more than anything else if the groom was a serviceman . |