Example sentences of "[vb past] not any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did n't any of them try to strangle you ? |
| 2 | Did n't any of it ever exist ? |
| 3 | Did n't any of his best friends tell him ? |
| 4 | Why did n't any women die in the war ? |
| 5 | ‘ Did n't any of you ever talk to her ? ’ demanded Zeinab . |
| 6 | A man of fifty-five had n't any business to drive like a crazy teenager . |
| 7 | I had n't any LM so gave Mill 6C which stopped the haemorrhaging but led to such severe abdominal pains the GP was called . |
| 8 | Mistletoe was even dearer , and they had n't any at all of that . |
| 9 | At the time when Shanti was preoccupied with the subject of identity , she expressed the thought that she had n't any choice in the matter : we had taken her whether she liked it or not . |
| 10 | M. B. The Federation helped us but they had n't any teeth . |
| 11 | He had n't any sense , I thought , but he did have fear , which was almost as good a life preserver . |
| 12 | And so , whenever one of Steven 's movies touched upon an adult theme , he was unable to link it directly to his own experience , because he had n't any . |
| 13 | They pooled their knowledge on how children were born , and had n't any new enlightenments to offer . |
| 14 | I 'm not suited to fatherhood and I had n't any wish to be made ridiculous by paternity suits . |
| 15 | ‘ The single ? ’ he 'd said , knowing that she had n't any money . |
| 16 | We started gambling with scraps of papers because we had n't any real money and matchsticks were forbidden . |
| 17 | No , she had n't any friends , because he would n't like it . |
| 18 | The apartment had been cleared by his men , and she had n't any family in town . |
| 19 | She did n't look much like my idea of a prostitute either , but that was because she had n't any make-up on . |
| 20 | ‘ I had n't any idea you would call yourself a humanist . ’ |
| 21 | The others had n't any money and these have n't any soul . |
| 22 | Dear Mrs Woodward … she was a neighbour who did n't really need to send presents at all but she liked the girls and had n't any children of her own . |
| 23 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 24 | Martha and Tilda were in the position of having no spending money , but this was less important when they were not attending school and were spared the pains of comparison , and they felt no bitterness against their mother , because she had n't any either . |
| 25 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 26 | I — I somehow thought you had n't any , like me , you know . ’ |
| 27 | Anyway , of course I had n't any . |
| 28 | They 'd suspected him , but of course he had made sure that there was no evidence and anyway he had n't any motive . |
| 29 | I had n't any idea what he was talking about but I listened attentively to his description of lands I had never imagined , with their dark green forests , snowy slopes and frozen lakes . |
| 30 | Rosie … well , she had n't any money , had she ? |