Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't say I 'd got any thing , but — |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’ |
| 4 | That was the first time I 'd had any money out of gigging in a year . |
| 5 | Frankly , if I 'd had any forewarning of this then I 'd have made certain that our paths would never cross again ! ’ |
| 6 | And if I 'd had any problems , he sorted them out . |
| 7 | It rang again almost immediately — Alan again , asking if I 'd had any luck . |
| 8 | If I 'd had any doubts about your competence you can be sure I would n't have left you to cope here . ’ |
| 9 | This time the press and the media were there and I declined to make any comment on the negotiations . |
| 10 | I started keeping any post connected with finance away from him , and myself dealt with the usual household accounts such as the telephone and electricity , because even they sent him into a frenzy of checking and referring back to previous demands , an attitude completely alien to his normal temperament . |
| 11 | I offered to do any kind of work , teaching , sewing , cleaning , so that I could become independent again . |
| 12 | it was a cro , I tell you what , we were playing something tonight , I think it was the last thing before you stopped , and I kept thinking any minute now it 's gon na be Somewhere Over the Rainbow |
| 13 | I was the prime suspect this time because of the Golden Syrup job , and although I knew she did n't have any proof , nothing I said made any difference . |
| 14 | but I had to lie any way cos otherwise she would be more annoyed , I was going , I , say I go , I |
| 15 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 16 | If I had to put any money on any one at this moment , it would have to be them . |
| 17 | If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in . |
| 18 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 19 | I wanted to detect any signs of discomfort . |
| 20 | conducted a further study ( experiment 1 c ) that was almost identical to the first but which failed to yield any evidence for context-specificity . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Of the three patients that died , the cause of death was not mentioned in one case , a second patient died of oesophageal recurrence , the third succumbed to systemic lymphoma five years after irradiation of a single oesophageal manifestation ; local treatment had been completely successful , as indicated at necropsy , which failed to reveal any signs of malignancy in the oesophagus . |
| 23 | Nobody seemed to have any doubt that Pencader would trounce his rivals on his debut at Newbury last month . |
| 24 | Twelve minutes later Steven Pressley grabbed a scrappy equaliser which seemed to end any prospect of an upset . |
| 25 | Twelve minutes later Steven Pressley grabbed a scrappy equaliser which seemed to end any prospect of an upset . |
| 26 | The disclaimer in Smith v Bush , which purported to prevent any duty of care arising was therefore caught by s13 ; however , that part of s13 does not apply to s3 , so that a clause which prevents a duty arising is not necessarily an exclusion for the purposes of s3 . |
| 27 | A good night out for me would be one where I got home and nobody had played any tricks on me . |
| 28 | For all the absence of Bakerthink in the classroom , it would be misleading to suggest that nobody had taken any notice of the Education Reform Act . |
| 29 | Nobody had taken any notice of me so far , but I did not mind that . |
| 30 | The riot had started from nothing ; nobody had expected any trouble . |