Example sentences of "[vb past] to have any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a legit , braceleted , but he never seemed to have any money , and somehow he seemed to avoid the gangs , legit and illegit , that roamed the upper Levels . |
| 2 | Neither of my parents seemed to have any friends , and tended to talk disparagingly of neighbours or colleagues . |
| 3 | Nobody seemed to have any doubt that Pencader would trounce his rivals on his debut at Newbury last month . |
| 4 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 5 | ‘ One of the reasons you went to the cinema when I was a teenager was to pick up girls , but I never seemed to have any luck . |
| 6 | No one seemed to have any idea . |
| 7 | Only Throgmorton seemed to have any idea of civilised behaviour . |
| 8 | Sammy slept under the navigator 's table and never seemed to have any reaction to the gyration of the aircraft or the attention of the natives with their flak and fighters outside . |
| 9 | Mr Delors is said to have phoned Mr MacSharry and threatened to have any deal involving concessions voted down in Brussels . |
| 10 | He sounded coherent , but he was too ill and doped to have any idea what he was saying . |
| 11 | Towards the top of the hill he made two bad jumping errors but these made little difference to his progress , and with Fifty Dollars More falling at the final open ditch only Combs Ditch looked to have any chance of getting in the way of a Dickinson clean sweep . |
| 12 | They had , naturally and by mutual consent , ceased to have any kind of physical relationship , something which had always meant a lot to them both . |
| 13 | After successive purges , the party ceased to have any pretension to ideology . |
| 14 | Time ceased to have any meaning for Sarah . |
| 15 | When pumping in carbon dioxide failed to have any effect on the blaze , a site emergency was called . |
| 16 | Thus Nutbeam et al are disappointed that two well tried instruments for preventing children from smoking failed to have any effect , especially when the schemes worked elsewhere . |
| 17 | Ironically , the only Hibs player who appeared to have any kind of conviction going forward was Pat McGinlay , who has taken up the attention of Celtic 's manager , Liam Brady , and will be the object of a move from that quarter when his contract expires in the summer . |
| 18 | She refused to have any pets in the house , but even the hardest of hearts need some discharge of sentiment . |