Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] any [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They convened that day , but failed to issue any resolution until late on Aug. 3 . |
| 2 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 3 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 4 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 5 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 6 | Er Selby have as I und as I can see it today , failed to establish any need for the bid for two hundred two hundred and fifty hectares which they 've put forward . |
| 7 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 8 | Archaeological digs by a team from Newcastle University failed to find any remains of interest in the area to be developed , yesterday 's planning applications sub-committee was told . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However , Nielsen and Videbech ( 1973 ) failed to find any effect on the suicide rate of the introduction of a community service to an island population . |
| 11 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 12 | But he never tried to take any food from the other children . |
| 13 | Ottaviani first tried to prevent any discussion in the Commission and , when that failed , to delay referring the text to the Council . |
| 14 | Every time he tried to make any kind of serious statement or speech for years thereafter , people came back to the plants . |
| 15 | Harriet sensing , quite rightly , that this must have something to do with a man , failed to receive any response to the most careful attempts to discover what was wrong . |
| 16 | Guardian reader Peter John , who has holdings in Dumenil 's Swiss , French and Spanish funds , claims he failed to receive any dividends in June and November as he expected . |
| 17 | All were in perfect condition , and the inscriptions seemed rather unusual : analysis failed to detect any gold at all , strongly suggesting the ingots were made from modern refined silver . |
| 18 | " I phoned one of my neighbours to find out if she 'd heard any noise from our flat . |
| 19 | Only the strong figure of David Wallington seemed to promise any kind of help and she called out to him . |
| 20 | She was a make-up artist , for goodness ' sake — she 'd seen any number of half-naked male actors in her time , but she 'd never reacted like this before . |
| 21 | If he 'd got any sense at all ( which he probably did n't ) he 'd go to the bank and try to draw out money . |
| 22 | Even if he 'd shown any signs at all of wanting to have her around — which he had n't — she 'd be nothing more than a burden . |
| 23 | Frankly , if I 'd had any forewarning of this then I 'd have made certain that our paths would never cross again ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’ |
| 25 | If I 'd had any doubts about your competence you can be sure I would n't have left you to cope here . ’ |
| 26 | If she 'd had any doubts about Tara 's relationship with the villa 's owner , they rapidly evaporated as she watched the other girl 's body language in graceful retreat . |
| 27 | And , if she 'd had any illusions about being able to deceive him , his behaviour over the past two days had put paid to that . |
| 28 | It was the first time in ages he 'd demonstrated any kind of protectiveness towards her and she could n't help warming to that . |
| 29 | The seemingly boundless confidence of Mr Milosevic and his allies was not unconnected with the fact that until 1991 most of the rest of the world still seemed to reject any loosening of the bonds — controlled by the Serbs — that kept the existing Yugoslavia together . |
| 30 | She 'd encountered any number of stars who thought themselves special simply because of their fame , but this one was clearly the king of them all . |