Example sentences of "anything [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professionally , if I felt there was a risk I should want to know that I was clear so I was certain there was no danger of me passing anything on to a patient or a future partner . |
| 2 | An , Anything like with a brand name on it . |
| 3 | If any one of his rules was broken — and he had a number — he would put a notice on his front door which said that the offender was scartata , rejected ; it could be for a few days or anything up to a fortnight . |
| 4 | Mrs Aggie would give her anything up to a shilling for them . |
| 5 | Speaking in Glasgow , Mr McLeish commented : ‘ We are talking about anything up to a quarter of our fellow Scots . |
| 6 | and the modern treatment is they put babies in splints , they lay them on like frames from splints and they 're strapped into them and they stay in them from anything up to a year , and babies do n't mind , but if you , if you think about it , if you do a double nappy |
| 7 | During the time my territory was South and Mid Wales , I could be sent off for anything up to a week on a series of stories . |
| 8 | ‘ I can be anything up to a bear if you like . |
| 9 | I never drink anything out of a can and hardly ever eat anything tinned , either . |
| 10 | Modern genetic engineers already have the technology to write the New Testament or anything else into a bacterium 's DNA . |
| 11 | ‘ Anything else on a connection between them ? ’ |
| 12 | What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody . |
| 13 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 14 | Part-time soldiering essentially took second place to a full-time job , and it was impossible to make the TA work as anything apart from a weekend occupation . |
| 15 | They behave similarly should a man appear carrying anything remotely like a gun ( for example , a cricket bat , a length of scaffolding or an umbrella ) . |