Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] had any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By contrast , when adults were accompanying children , during a similar three-minute period , less than half of them had any communication at all with their children ; and in two-fifths of the pairs ‘ what took place was negative ’ .
2 Margaret tried them all , but none of them had any help for her .
3 Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes .
4 Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money .
5 Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience .
6 And she thought , as she stood there with Rosie , Susie , Katie , Isabel , Janice and Heather , that none of it mattered , none of it had any importance , in view of the fact that she was going .
7 ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’
8 ‘ In the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ when these children were uplifted , none of us had any idea what a national scandal we were dealing with .
9 It was then a question of waiting to be called up and none of us had any idea how long this would be .
10 and erm he was always talking about erm different types of lathe and chucks and things like that and er , none of us had any idea what he was
11 None of us had any idea what observation meant , but we had to write down a sentence or something we had noticed on our way to school .
12 The Chief-Corporal in charge shouted out that if any of us had any sisters , we were to stand up .
13 Only eight of us had any sort of previous military experience : Marius , myself , Chris , a German from Oberammergau who had killed a tourist in the celebrations surrounding the Passion Play , a Frenchman , Mike the Rhodesian , and a Portuguese and a Rumanian who had both served with their countries ' airborne regiments .
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