Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I had forgotten to bring any photographs with me , this one seemed empty . |
| 2 | After three quarters of an hour the advocates were informed that they had decided to defer any statement of their reasons and their conclusion as to the appropriate orders for a period of approximately 10 days until 3 February 1992 . |
| 3 | By this time , the middle of 1986 , the Alliance Against Hinkley C had decided to avoid any confusion with the then burgeoning political coalition of centre parties , and renamed itself with an unambiguous slogan — ‘ Stop Hinkley Expansion' ( SHE ) . |
| 4 | Although subjected to heavy pressure from abolitionists , most of them on their own benches , the Labour Government had avoided giving any commitment on the future of the death penalty . |
| 5 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 6 | Jack had refused to give any meat to Piggy — |
| 7 | The articles opened with the comprehensively damning statement that the king ‘ is not sufficient to govern ’ because throughout his reign he had been led and governed by others who had given him evil counsel , to the dishonour of himself and the destruction of Holy Church and his people , and he had refused to provide any remedy , or to allow one to be made , when he was asked to do so by the great and wise men of his realm . |
| 8 | On asking the reason for such an assembly , Yakovlev was told that the local priest had refused to marry any couples unless the community attended services . |
| 9 | Although some 40 senators had refused to accept any honoraria , the remaining 60 accepted a total of more than $1,400,000 in 1990 . |
| 10 | Amazingly , nothing had seemed to take any notice ! |
| 11 | For one thing , the children involved all had genuine symptoms , and there was no suggestion that the parents had attempted to fabricate any symptoms . |
| 12 | If that journalist had attempted to inspect any files relating to Crabb 's ‘ accident ’ he would either be told that no such files existed or , if they did , were classified in the interests of national security . |
| 13 | But the peaceful feeling which accompanies hypnosis and the constant reminders that she was relaxed and comfortable and everything was simply happening in her imagination had served to prevent any fear and anxiety at all . |
| 14 | These officers conceded that pornography had ceased to arouse any feelings in them whatsoever . |
| 15 | Liza was unaware that she was but the female counterpart of her father ; for Harriet , resolute and loyal to the last , had managed to keep any knowledge of Tom 's countless affairs from his daughter . |
| 16 | As they told MPs , they had found that 34 per cent of mothers interviewed in their survey had failed to receive any increase in their housekeeping allowance in the previous year , while prices had risen 7 per cent over the same period ( HOC , 1973 , Vol . |
| 17 | The expected bag of gifts did not materialise because the Government had failed to get any donations from local businesses like smoked salmon merchants and whisky distillers . |
| 18 | They were healthy , content , and had failed to develop any taste for internecine warfare . |
| 19 | The party , which had failed to gain any seats in the June federal and republican elections , had been riven by policy disagreements for some time and was reputedly heavily indebted . |
| 20 | Although the NDP had committed considerable resources to Quebec during the 1988 federal elections , it had failed to win any seats east of Ontario [ see pp. 36425 ] and had remained dogged by its image as a party of the more rural western provinces . |
| 21 | Two years later , however , in a further White Paper , Rates : Proposals for Rate Limitation and Reform of the Rating System ( 1983 ) , the government recognized that wide consultation had failed to find any consensus for an alternative local tax , and conceded that rates should remain for the foreseeable future as the main source of local government revenue . |
| 22 | The fact that I had failed to find any companions did n't help my cause very much . |
| 23 | For two years the colony staggered along , with much the same problem as the early English settlements in Virginia which had failed to find any line of activity in the first three or four years that would bring in money . |
| 24 | It was a week now since Clarion Call had vanished and , despite backup from Roquelaure , he had failed to make any progress in tracing the whereabouts of the directors of Spidex International Trading . |
| 25 | Where , however , the recorded mileage was exceptionally low for the age of the vehicle and the defendant had failed to make any enquiries even of the car 's immediate previous owner , the defence is likely to fail , Simmons v. Ravenhill ( 1983 D.C. ) . |
| 26 | An assessment by energy analysts published in the International Atomic Energy Agency 's Bulletin Vol. 32 , No. 1 ( 1990 ) calculated that OPEC oil had not only lost a portion of its share of existing markets , but had failed to make any penetration into new energy markets created by economic growth . |