Example sentences of "had any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you had any breakfast this morning ? ’ |
| 2 | I have n't had any for years — not since I last went to Rome probably . ’ |
| 3 | Ask the staff if the policy has had any effect on their attitudes to drinking , or on their awareness of their drinking habits . |
| 4 | If you have had any experience of Aids-like illnesses in dogs , please write to us enclosing as many details as possible and giving a daytime telephone number . |
| 5 | Educational dogmatists who insist that middle-class values ( and hence , speech ) must not be foisted on working-class children ; a society which has never had any real commitment to the idea of education as a key to social mobility ; guilt-ridden liberal sentimentality about working-class cultural identity . |
| 6 | Vanbrugh was appointed as designer but at that time he is not known to have had any architectural experience ; his career had until then been a military one . |
| 7 | If I have ever had any doubts about my work with Dire straits , I pull out one of their albums and play it . |
| 8 | That was the first time I 'd had any money out of gigging in a year . |
| 9 | Malcolm said OK , but even he ca n't have had any idea what Christopherson intended . |
| 10 | Laing has never had any problems about getting to grips with long-term strategy . |
| 11 | Although she had never had any secretarial training , she had the nerve to apply for one of the most eagerly sought-after positions in Europe . |
| 12 | From that day to now , thirteen years , I have n't had any peace . |
| 13 | Privacy ; Erika longed for it herself , often , but it occurred to her , for the first time , that her mother might long for it , too , might want it and , indeed , need it , and it dawned on her , also for the first time , that her mother had never had any privacy since the end of the War ; that all her life since then she had lived in small apartments , actually in one small room for long periods , and sharing even that room with others … . |
| 14 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 15 | Until comparatively recently English vineyards had never had any sort of reputation for producing fine wines . |
| 16 | She had never had any real discipline in her life in the way Charles had . |
| 17 | Diana had never had any real discipline in her life . |
| 18 | At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British . |
| 19 | I have never had any qualms about refusing to fund a cause I do not support , but am glad to have the chance to give to good causes I might otherwise have missed . |
| 20 | If the authorities had had any sense , they would have closed the cafes . ’ |
| 21 | He still had n't had any chart hits at the time and in fact did n't until ‘ Fame ’ . |
| 22 | It did n't bother him that David had n't had any hits — so what ? |
| 23 | Japanese scientists , however , have been denying that drift-nets have had any significant effect on Dall 's porpoise . |
| 24 | If Philip had had any sense he 'd have brought it down with him , that and the other stuff . |
| 25 | He was sure , not only because he could have written out a set of instructions there and then , if he had had any paper , but because he could imagine all the minute details of doing those things . |
| 26 | Nor would he have had any taste for ‘ triumphant death-beds ’ . |
| 27 | I am convinced she had never lived in a house before , and had never had any real relationship with people . |
| 28 | To be fair , Same-Lamborghini UK did say that it had n't had any complaints about lifting capacity here . |
| 29 | He wanted very much to do something to please her , and it was hard , for he had never had any kind of a way with women , did not know their minds or their tastes , except for Ma . |
| 30 | If either of us had had any sense we 'd have realised from the start something like this had happened . |