Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then we should have completed any changes to the constitution and bye-laws , have decided on the long term future of our examination system and have strengthened our financial position so that we can meet the costs involved . |
| 2 | There seemed no reason why he should have known any English , Joseph reflected as they drove on and concluded in his own mind that the wary-eyed Annamese probably had n't understood the earlier conversation . |
| 3 | Fran had to hand it to Luke : he had handled the story with a panache that must have squashed any rumours stone-dead . |
| 4 | Thus splendid orchestra responded to the persuasive direction of Vernon Handley in admirable fashion and the result must have convinced any doubter that Vaughan Williams is a symphonist of stature . |
| 5 | Because I do n't think we 'll have made any decisions by two thirty . |
| 6 | She nonchalantly waved a hand in a direction that might have included any tent in the camp . |
| 7 | " Shakespeare " denotes someone who might have had any number of different characteristics . |
| 8 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 9 | Unfortunately the choice of subjects was bad , autumn grass is already stressed , and this effect could have overlaid any effect due to the cutting . |
| 10 | Could have gone any time with with nothing through his bloody arteries ! |
| 11 | But it is difficult to imagine how Dustin could have felt any involvement in the picture . |
| 12 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 13 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 14 | It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic . |
| 15 | But although amino acids might well have become strung together to form primitive proteins , it is difficult to see how those proteins could have had any kind of coherent structure , or multiplied themselves efficiently , without help from DNA . |
| 16 | Anxious to deny any significant revolutionary input , they were at pains to resist any suggestion that machine breaking could have had any links with a revolutionary political movement . |
| 17 | " I 'm glad for you , my lord , but I expect that as you 're so rich you could have had any woman you wanted . |
| 18 | " She could have had any number of others , but no , only he would do . " |
| 19 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 20 | Charles could have chosen any excuse for the phone call and it was pure chance that he had lighted on the meaningless ‘ numberplate racket ’ I ‘ So that 's what made you drive down in the Datsun , and move the plan forward , and lose a quarter of a million pounds ? ’ |
| 21 | It is important to note that we could have chosen any example of a stressful situation with which a person is having problems . |
| 22 | ‘ But I think it highly unlikely that Mr Clowes could have found any means of ensuring that investigation of the matters in question was averted , while at the same time satisfying the Department that his operations could properly be licensed . |
| 23 | The Communist Party , moreover , was a unitary organisation based upon the same principle of democratic centralism , and there was no constitutional court which , as in a true federation , could have resolved any dispute about the respective powers of the republics and of the USSR as a whole . |
| 24 | It can not therefore be stated , as an abstract proposition , that he suffers any detriment from the discharge of that duty ; and the declaration does not show in what way the defendant could have derived any advantage from the plaintiff paying his own debts . |
| 25 | ‘ Surely with all the talk of a madman she 'd have volunteered any information the moment Channing crossed the threshold ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I doubt if you 'd have had any choice , ’ said Hugh with sympathy , ‘ and certainly you have none now . ’ |
| 27 | In our series , some patients in the CRF group were in receipt of calcium and bicarbonate supplements , and these supplements may have reduced any difference in serum calcium and bicarbonate between CRF patients and those with some potentially reversible element to their renal failure . |
| 28 | The defendant in a fixed date action is permitted to submit a defence at any point before the return day , but if it is outside the 14 day period he or she may have to meet any costs incurred as a result of the delay . |
| 29 | She was dressed simply enough in a brown gown with a lacy ruff round the neck but she would have outshone any queen . |
| 30 | It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house . |