Example sentences of "she had any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We could check the off-licence , I suppose , though I did n't think she had any money . ’
2 Asked if she had any feelings of guilt over the fall of a Cabinet Minister , Antonia said :
3 She was trying hard to deny to herself that she had any feelings for him .
4 It was obvious that they , too , had realised what a professional job it was , something reflected in their searching questions as to whether she thought she had any enemies .
5 I wondered whether she had any misgivings .
6 If she had any misgivings , they were for Matthew .
7 The vicious , open-handed blow landed on Isabel 's cheek before she had any warning of the Empress 's intention .
8 Clare , if she had any sense ( which seemed questionable ) , must realize that a person of his background and way of life would scarcely have remained pure .
9 These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up .
10 He did n't mind telling her in no uncertain terms to keep her distance from him , not that she had any inclination to do anything else , but obviously felt no compulsion to obey those rules when applied to himself .
11 She glanced at him guiltily , remembering her promise to confide in him if she had any problems .
12 Edouard , watching her , wondered if she had any idea that it was too late .
13 And erm , it s it seems to be an entirely er rational position for any public politician , for instance , Mrs Thatcher before the seventy-nine election , denying that she had any plans to double V A T , or Mr Major denying some of the plans for raising taxes that we 've come up with , or indeed denying plans to privatise the forestry commission .
14 I do n't think she had any experience but she became friendly with Eleanor Fawcett who had , and Vera borrowed our cheese press .
15 He must wait — they must both wait , if she had any attachment for him — until he was able to support her .
16 Miss Harker , if she had any inkling , was giving nothing away .
17 If she found it stretching credulity that a meeting between them was n't inevitable she 'd always fiercely denied to herself that she had any interest in seeing him again , so why should she be feeling so shivery and hot , almost as if she had a fever ?
18 if she had any kids .
19 I asked her if she had any medication that would make me a better surfer .
20 Even so , she did n't need Our Mam to tell her what every pretty girl knew if she had any gumption at all .
21 ‘ Wyndham ’ was n't a very unusual name and , so far , no one seemed to suspect that she had any connection with the newsworthy , hard and formidable entrepreneur Ross Wyndham .
22 Sabine had asked if she had any grandparents in France , or any other uncles and aunts .
23 If she had any doubts that Shine On was good enough to win that afternoon , they were dispelled by the way he felt during his early-morning pipe-opener .
24 The bank undertook to arrange for the necessary documents to be drawn up and the manager gave instructions that both the husband and the wife were to be made aware of the nature and effect of the documents they would sign , and that the wife should be advised to take legal advice if she had any doubts about them .
25 When Business Age magazine published their list of the richest women in Britain this week , they left Diana 's name off it — because they did n't know she had any dosh of her own .
26 By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification .
27 This was no credit to her own piety — but what was the use of pretending that she had any piety left ?
28 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 .
29 If Rhoda had gone to see her sister in Eastleech , surely she would have called in to see if she had any messages .
30 Her former Special Adviser , Patrick Cosgrave , recounts how there were only two areas for which she had any respect :
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