Example sentences of "had any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairly early in Take a girl like you , Patrick delivers himself of an unqualified condemnation of women , which is followed by a sentence from the narrator concerning and presumably condemning Patrick 's attitude to Jenny at that stage , as a girl to be taken and left : ‘ He wanted more than his share of her before anybody else had any . ’ |
| 2 | Had any of these attitudes been generated by your first experience with the National Youth Theatre under Michael Croft ? |
| 3 | Even so , those who had any career success were extremely few in number . |
| 4 | At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value . |
| 5 | On board the steamer the two of them were talking about what would happen to the title if Lord Woodleigh was to die before they had any children , and Lord Woodleigh said — Sven Hjerson 's ears heard it — although now you get the estate . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't tell you if Mrs Iverson had any port . ’ |
| 7 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 8 | Without really still thinking that I had any chance of success , I went back down to the Circle Line and journeyed on to Liverpool Street . |
| 9 | If I had any children to send to those good schools in Highgate , even they would n't be asleep by now . ’ |
| 10 | Sicily for Pound never but once had any existence that was n't either verbal ( as in the wordplay on ‘ Trinacria ’ or the Eleanors ) , or else notional , ideological ( as providing a sort of slender mnemonic crutch for a tendentious reading of history ) . |
| 11 | The question can still be raised whether Pound had any access to Virgil except through translation . |
| 12 | In the furnace control office I found shift foreman Keith Thomas and asked innocently if he had any physical problems : ‘ Not since my vasectomy . ’ |
| 13 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |
| 14 | That they had any cohesion at all was impressive and when they also succeeded in driving through the heart of the French forwards an improbable victory became at least possible . |
| 15 | ‘ I never had any worries about him , ’ Billy McNeill , the Celtic manager , said . |
| 16 | Finally , he showed me off the premises with the injunction , accompanied by a theatrical wink , that I should get straight on to him if I ever had any bother . |
| 17 | The UVF denied he had any connection with it . |
| 18 | Yet despite praise for the report and stated commitments to implement it , Sir Ronald still has no tangible evidence that his work had any useful purpose . |
| 19 | One very important thing that I had noticed since we landed in Normandy five days ago was that no one had any problem with insomnia. quite the reverse . |
| 20 | We looked at variations in perceptions across the electorate to see whether television , the press , or both had any influence . |
| 21 | Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) . |
| 22 | Dzerzhinsky stressed that local authorities should collaborate with them , but at the centre he was adamant that they should take no part in transport decisions that had any , political implications . |
| 23 | They consider , sometimes in fairly abstract terms , the kinds of policies which Labour might have adopted , without asking whether such policies had any chance of securing parliamentary support . |
| 24 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
| 25 | In that case the Lapp had said he would do it for a few drinks if we had any with us . |
| 26 | That 's still a fair maximum for this car , and even with a lot of miles under its belt since it had any major attention ( and a tendency to hang-up slightly in second gear ) it will still pull 12.2secs to 60mph . |
| 27 | Well , we had about an hour of this and then she asked me if I had any romantic plans of my own . |
| 28 | But even so I do n't reckon he had any friends . |
| 29 | Lewis was the presiding genius ; the meeting took place in his rooms and it was he who chose the moment to ask if anyone present had any work in progress which they wanted to read aloud . |
| 30 | But we never had any conclusive proof . ’ |