Example sentences of "had any intention " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the decretal " Novit ille " , written to the archbishops and bishops of France , Innocent declared how much he has the interests of King Philip Augustus and his kingdom at heart and how wrong it would be to assume that he had any intentions that were harmful to the French king 's jurisdictional powers . |
| 2 | Mr Johnson , of Coningsby Drive , Kidderminster , claimed the company had boasted of the success of using saleswomen and never had any intention of offering him a job because he was a man . |
| 3 | Although Blake may have given the impression to the prison authorities that he had accepted his sentence and settled down to serve it ( it would surely have been odd had he done otherwise ) , in reality neither he nor the KGB had any intention of him remaining in prison a day longer than necessary . |
| 4 | It seems most unlikely that the testator had any intention of this sort ; and it is pointless to assert that such a decision would have been impossible in a legacy , since the whole context — a disposition charged on a non-heir — is one in which a legacy could not have functioned . |
| 5 | This was utter nonsense from a communist point of view and neither Ceauşescu nor Brezhnev had any intention of abiding by the terms of the Helsinki agreement , but its value to them lay in its public announcement to the peoples of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union that the West had abandoned them to their fate . |
| 6 | Not that the Ariadne had any intention of going anywhere but it 's nice to have a solid reason to stay put . ’ |
| 7 | Others had undergone a test because they ‘ needed to know ’ , not because they had any intention of terminating . |
| 8 | As we have said , neither Jesus nor the Nazarean hierarchy had any intention of creating a new religion . |
| 9 | As a good Jew , it would seem highly unlikely that he had any intention of founding a new religion , let alone setting up a ‘ priesthood ’ for it . |
| 10 | He no longer thought the French had any intention of leaving Vietnam . |
| 11 | Her first step was to leave the kitchen exactly as he left it ; if he thought she had any intention of clearing his mess up behind him , then Luther was very much mistaken . |
| 12 | ‘ You never had any intention of exposing Court — that would have happened at once if you 'd intended it . |
| 13 | e.g … the French never had any intention of opposing the German reoccupation of the Rhineland . |
| 14 | No way could a person eat something like that — not that I had any intention of killing and consuming the poor creature , now that my eyes had been opened . |
| 15 | None of these Jews — half of whom were women and children — had any intention of revisiting Germany in the near future . |
| 16 | Needless to say , the generals , stolid landowners to a man , never had any intention of allowing such a thing to happen . |
| 17 | I never had any intention of remaining here , though I have grown to love it . ’ |
| 18 | No one , least of all Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , had any intention of its forming the foundation stone for one of the most successful series that the British film industry ever spawned . |
| 19 | Arkells told us it sympathised with the Gammages but never had any intention of employing them . |
| 20 | But he stopped short of setting up a ‘ shadow government ’ before the handover , a previously threatened step that would undermine the authority of the colonial government and denied China had any intention to seize the colony back before 1997 . |