Example sentences of "any [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what about yours then , any nothing ? |
| 2 | ‘ If you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land as you advance , any whom you leave in possession will become like a barbed hook in your eye and a thorn in your side . |
| 3 | When satisfied with his progress he gave the products away to any whom the doctors thought would benefit from them . |
| 4 | This is because they are fundamentally ‘ you and me ’ poems , and any You or any Me can be substituted for the personae . |
| 5 | ‘ He always recognized what we 've done ; there was never any them and us , ’ Dai recounted proudly . |
| 6 | Dee , if you land on any my yellow squares |
| 7 | The power station was unlike any I had previously seen . |
| 8 | I could send you a list of vacancies , and mark any I thought might suit Mrs Ross and which I could vouch for . |
| 9 | It stood in the corner of a small field , larger and more impressive than any I 'd yet seen . |
| 10 | It is a fairly large and considerably hairy breed as a rule , but my eventual acquisition turned out to be playing the dog game by his own rules and was larger and hairier than any I 've seen before or since . |
| 11 | He is in the hall at this moment ’ , sends me into a panic not milder certainly than any I have ever felt in all the catastrophes of War and Peace . |
| 12 | With typical Teutonic thoroughness , the Bölkow 's operating handbook is as comprehensive and useful a document as any I have encountered , with a proper alphabetical index and much more than just the bare minimum information required by the authorities . |
| 13 | And that 's as high an accolade as any I can give it ! |
| 14 | The interview took place on a Friday afternoon in the Royal Palace and was as bad as any I can remember : the king was bad , I was bad , the room was gloomy , nothing went right . |
| 15 | She was a piano teacher ( most piano teachers give themselves the title Madam in South Wales ) , and the food was as tasteless as any I had encountered . |
| 16 | Adventurers who fail the test feel weak and chilled , and shiver violently for 1 round when leaving the tower ( penalty of -20 to any I test which must be made , for any reason , during this round ) . |
| 17 | The strengths of the present one lie in the male singers : Markus Schäfer is a lightish Acis , who knows how to shade such a piece as ‘ Love in her eyes sits playing ’ , while Wilfried Jochens makes an exceptionally graceful and fluent Damon ( my apologies if I have these two the wrong way round ; the box and booklet are not explicit ) ; while Peter Like , with his light staccato , his controlled pianissimo and his splendidly rotund tone , makes as good a Polyphemus as any I recall . |
| 18 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 19 | After that the jug of water was empty and I was full , but the waiter was smirking in an enigmatic Eastern way , so I toyed with the final concoction , just to prove I could if I wanted to , and that any I happened to leave was just for manners . |
| 20 | I 'm not married and do n't have any children and I would love to have children and if I found out that I could n't have any I would do anything to have them . |
| 21 | It 's a better and deeper grave than any I 've seen . |
| 22 | The creature looked wilder and woollier than any I 've met in seas round about , its suckered and flock-piled textures giving more chew and less taste than one would have expected . |
| 23 | Has anyone got any I mean I you do n't all need to write about the same thing or anything . |
| 24 | He stood up while we watched and I realized he had magnificent horns , far longer than any I had yet seen . |
| 25 | But I do n't know what you 've got without waiting for any I |
| 26 | ‘ I doubt if you could have thought of any I did n't deserve . |
| 27 | Next to that of Suez in 1956 , it had divided more families than any I can remember . |
| 28 | ‘ This is as good a way to get to know each other of any I can think of . ’ |
| 29 | That , I would say , is not a bad price to pay for a machine that is probably as fast as any I have played with . |
| 30 | I mean I got to thinking if I ca n't find any I 'm dead . |