Example sentences of "[was/were] not any [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos their shovel was different to ours , but that were n't any good to us cos that was er , cos what they used to trim grain with , now a grain shovel was made of tin and cos our shovels what they used to feed the boiler with were all steel shovels . |
| 2 | They were n't any good to shovel coals no , is to give it away again . |
| 3 | They were n't any use to Moscow dead . |
| 4 | At least there were n't any children to be hurt by what happened . ’ |
| 5 | Anybody who 's still trying to work out the story about the wreath and the river , there was n't any point to it . |
| 6 | ‘ They said I was n't any use to Them . ’ |