Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newspaper asked to see any responsible official — none was available . |
| 2 | They convened that day , but failed to issue any resolution until late on Aug. 3 . |
| 3 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 4 | I failed to arrange any stereotypical symbol of masculinity in the porch where all visitors would see it instantly : a pair of size ten wellingtons , a cricket fixture list , a rifle perhaps . |
| 5 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 6 | When subjects are interrupted on going to sleep and asked to report any mental activity whatsoever they usually have something to say about what was going on in their minds . |
| 7 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 8 | Where he was intellectually confused was that he failed to see any close connection between the economic stance of his Government and its industrial problems . |
| 9 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 10 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 11 | However this sketch hardly rises above a ‘ Dallas'-type description and Stotland failed to provide any empirical grounding for his arguments . |
| 12 | One person in 10 failed to spell any word correctly according to the Gallup survey of 1,000 adults . |
| 13 | Er Selby have as I und as I can see it today , failed to establish any need for the bid for two hundred two hundred and fifty hectares which they 've put forward . |
| 14 | United was not there — or at least not where Bob Smith expected her — and an SUE charge ( see diagram p. 62 ) tossed over the side failed to attract any attention . |
| 15 | Rafael Valls acquired an appealing half-length portrait of Miss Juliana Copley by Lawrence ( lot 29 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) for £92,000 , but doubts had been expressed about the condition of the second Lawrence in the sale , a grand full-length portrait of John Allnutt ( lot 30 , est. £300,000–500,000 ) , and it failed to attract any bids . |
| 16 | A pair of granite chairs by Scott Burton ( lot 55 , est. $100–150,000 ) sold for $80,000 ( £44,400 ) , in spite of concerns about their condition Lichtenstein 's ‘ Laughing cat ’ ( lot 44a , est. $350–450,000 ) failed to attract any interest and was bought in at $190,000 . |
| 17 | Although minor works by Jasper Johns ( lot 20 , est. $300–400,000 ) and Robert Rauschenberg ( lot 21 , est. $500–700,000 ) failed to attract any bids , there was satisfactory interest in Minimalist and Neo-Expressionist pictures from his collection . |
| 18 | Two of Queen Victoria 's night dresses failed to attract any interest when they came up for auction . |
| 19 | She was always one for secrets … we never got to meet any of her school-friends . |
| 20 | The association 's leaders , who in two days of talks failed to secure any significant improvement in the the 9 per cent , 18-month offer thrown out last month , said that the ballot form would ask if members supported sanctions , possibly including action which would disrupt services to patients . |
| 21 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 22 | It may be noted that the experiments by Siegel ( 1970 ) , James ( 1971 ) , and Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) , which failed to find any loss of latent inhibition at longer intervals , all gave repeated presentations of the target stimulus in pre-exposure ; that is , they gave training likely to establish a context — target association . |
| 23 | Karelius tried to think of arguments why she should not be , but failed to find any . |
| 24 | However , Nielsen and Videbech ( 1973 ) failed to find any effect on the suicide rate of the introduction of a community service to an island population . |
| 25 | Later studies failed to find any response , for the most part , although one found that two out of 16 schizophrenics responded . |
| 26 | As usual I popped into the second-hand bookshops and , as usual , failed to find any old golf books of any interest . |
| 27 | Sometimes we got into a shoal of them and pulled them in as fast as we could handle the lines ; sometimes we failed to find any . |
| 28 | ( As with the Hand thesis 91 , an online search of the LISA database failed to find any evidence that Hughes has as yet published her extremely worthwhile research ) . |
| 29 | ( As with the Hand thesis , an online search of the LISA database failed to find any evidence that Hughes has as yet published her extremely worthwhile research ) . |
| 30 | A similar study in 1974 failed to find any two year old fish breeding . |