Example sentences of "have had any " in BNC.

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31 He was not conscious of having had any contact with a clergyman since school , where religion had been regarded as an unavoidable mixed dose of discipline , cissiness and mild buffoonery .
32 The effect of jurisdictional error of law is said to be to render the affected decision void or a nullity in the sense that the decision is treated as never having had any legal effect .
33 In other words , Lyons , a man who preferred and prefers to make his bargaining points through the media , was prepared to disrupt vital supplies , inflicting untold damage to the economy , without having had any direct discussion with us as to our plans or policies .
34 Furthermore , the fact of strangers coming into Newcastle from a distance in perfect health and not having had any contact with cholera cases … being then suddenly seized with premonitory symptoms , and speedily passing into collapse , proves that it was the result of atmospheric infection . "
35 In any event , I have no recollection of ever having had any differences with her except on one occasion when she telephoned me to make a request with which I was unable to comply .
36 All the inhabitants of La Valdieu turned out to be English and when they had explained that they had all independently ended up at the farm without having had any conscious intention of doing so , my sceptical antennae started twitching .
37 The yakuza revelations were released by the Tokyo District Prosecutor 's Office on Nov. 5 , and several of the seven LDP members named immediately denied having had any contacts with the Nihon Kominto .
38 Cited works may be used without consultation , or may be used without their having had any real influence on the ideas contained in the paper .
39 Any question of him ever having had any dealings with our British friends ? ’
40 I mean in my opinion that 's a good thing , but it 's had the effect of school governors , not having had any training in appointing people , have this sort of stereotyped model in their mind and tend to give promotion to men rather than to women .
41 Malcolm said OK , but even he ca n't have had any idea what Christopherson intended .
42 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 .
43 Nor would he have had any taste for ‘ triumphant death-beds ’ .
44 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 .
45 The gesture , if it could ever have had any importance , was now certainly much too late , for it was no longer in Paris but in Berlin that events would be decided , as Bismarck had begun to make clear .
46 But it is doubtful whether they would have had any opportunity even to attempt that massive task if the years of the War had not profoundly changed public attitudes , and even softened the mind if not the heart of that great enemy of education and old boy of Harrow , Winston Churchill .
47 It is worth bearing in mind that , in terms of the wider system , the data on the forms was subject to a number of validation checks , and failure of the procedure at section level would not have had any disastrous consequences .
48 Many elderly people will not have had any hobbies at all .
49 Could it have had any connection with the man next door , who owned a motorcycle with the trademark ‘ Indian ’ ?
50 The police and the probation service , on the other hand , could impose sanctions , though whether they would have had any effect on Willy , who ‘ was extremely rude and behaved very badly towards all authority ’ , is open to doubt .
51 Of course , if I had obeyed the rule strictly , I would n't have had any problems , but because I did n't want to knit the next row I thought I could move both cams .
52 Faldo could n't have had any idea of the tropical storm brewing when he and Norman exchanged birdies at the first two holes .
53 Kit wondered whether Joseph , if he had stayed around , would have had any views on Frank 's motorbike .
54 She wore a wedding ring , but she could surely never have had any children of her own .
55 I wonder if he would have had any joy that day … only if you tied the rabbits ' legs together , I expect .
56 These reduced rate contributions do not count towards your pension and you will not have had any contributions credited to you .
57 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 .
58 The old Oliver would n't have had any … trouble like that , and if he did he 'd just have danced away from it .
59 " I 'm glad for you , my lord , but I expect that as you 're so rich you could have had any woman you wanted .
60 ‘ All three of these witnesses are , it is fair to say without intending any disrespect to them , not educated persons in the sense that they are persons who would have had any experience of judging mental ability .
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