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Example sentences for "for anything"

  • Then it was that, even while holding her breath for the awe of it, she truly felt almost able enough for anything.

  • She spoke as for the end and for other matters--for anything, everything, else there might be.

  • But I had no particular liking, that I could discover, for anything.

  • For anything I know, he was eating something to keep the raw morning air out; but he made motions with his mouth as if the pear were ripe already, and he were smacking his lips over it.

  • For anything that I can perceive to the contrary, it is still probable that my children may be reduced to seek a livelihood by personal contortion, while Mrs. Micawber abets their unnatural feats by playing the barrel-organ.

  • No, I do not know that it does, but all the same it is a nuisance when one fellow keeps himself to himself and never seems to go in for anything.

  • I would not have them recognize me for anything.

  • He may have received one in the afternoon, for anything I know.

  • For anything that she was doing to prevent it, he might drive a coach-and-six through the social code that blocks a declaration of passion to a girl under age without the consent of her parents.

  • Then she was in his arms, and what cared he for anything else in the heavens above or the earth beneath?

  • He was a person of the most delicate sensibility, who shrank from making himself responsible for anything whatever.

  • She preferred going for besoms, or for anything else, to her mother's kitchen and her mother's scolding.

  • Mrs. Reece and Dobbs took a liking to her when they first came, and they never let her want for anything.

  • I don't want any secrets, and you may tell my mother if you like it--and all the de Courcys too, for anything I care.

  • If you take me for anything else," I replied, "I doubt if you'll find anyone to back you.

  • For what had she come to me, if for anything, but to insist on her view of May, and what accordingly was more to the point than to mention her?

  • When I do not enjoy the pleasures of the chase, for anything I know he watches at the Temple Gate all night.

  • As indeed he might, if he chose, for anything he knew of the matter.

  • But I would not have the light of them taken out of my life, for anything my life can give me.

  • In turning the street corner they might have turned out of this world, for anything Mr and Mrs Boffin ever saw of them to the contrary; for, they set eyes on the Lammles never more.

  • And the damsel at once cries out: "Do not spare him, knight, for anything he may say to thee.

  • And the damsel dismounts, and runs as quickly as possible to support and succour him; for she would not have wished for anything to see him fall.

  • She is happy at the thought that this is true, but she would not have had it happen so for anything, for her sorrow would have been too great.

  • He says that he can never repay you for what you have done to-night, and that you may command him for anything in his power," interpreted the Count.

  • Fred, who was always in for anything in the line of music and innocent pleasure.

  • Denison, you know very well that I would not lead you into anything that would do you an injury, financially or otherwise, for anything in the world.

  • Sometimes in the evening I would give my head for somebody to talk to--Hemmings would never give his head for anything, I think.

  • There's no remedy for anger, or, indeed, for anything, so fine as walking.

  • But that would be easily cured, when she could get to her bag, with three globules of nux vomica--and darling Derek must not be waked up for anything!

  • Then the king attempted to persuade him not to go away: 'Do not go, for anything in the world!

  • The second son added, 'Do not open, for anything in the world!

  • Do not go, for anything in the world, to the place where it smokes.

  • Chisholm and Frank strolled off together, while it was getting ready; they walked with caution, as usual, for there was cover enough about for anything.

  • We were not unprepared, however, for anything.

  • Chisholm, "you're always in for anything.

  • I wouldn't be out on that log, doing such a job, for anything.

  • He might have been, for anything he knew, a married man with a family, a devoted husband.

  • For anything I can see, she may continue a--a sort of mer-pussy to the end of time.

  • But as for anything, of course that's absurd.

  • She may be inconsistency itself, for anything he knows.

  • Lumbermen have not paid much attention to it and never will, for only when at its best is the trunk large enough for any kind of sawlog, and there has been little inclination to use it for anything else.

  • It cannot be ascertained that the wood of this maple has ever been used for anything.

  • It is probably used more for boxes than for anything else at present.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for anything" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for instance; for life; for the greatest part; for the same purpose; for the time being; for them; for they are foolishness unto him; for thou; for whom; forced march; foreign assistance; foreign capital; foreign markets; foreign money; foreign origin; foreign pollen; foreign states; forever free; forgive thee; forked branch; form line; former ages; former part; former place; formerly supposed; forward movement