Example sentences of "we had any [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Leading Comrade Wong wanted to know the weaknesses of the Chinese English students , and we said they were really very good ( which they are ) , and he asked whether we had any dissatisfactions or criticisms , and we said we did n't , which seemed almost to crestfall him , as it seems part of the Chinese way of life that criticisms should be exchanged . |
2 | ‘ I did n't think we had any chance of catching him but I just kept shoving and shouting and he got there in the end , ’ said Antoinette . |
3 | Which it saves just in case we had any accidents , and lost any of our files anywhere . |
4 | I do n't think we had any cheese did we ? |
5 | Then he changed tack and asked us if we had any problems with his friends . |
6 | Those of us who campaigned against the Gulf War did so not because we had any liking for Saddam Hussein . |
7 | " It is n't , after all , as though we had any reason for not having them , because now that Amelia and Magnus and Gabriel are all married there 's plenty of room , and my parents are anyway worried , politically speaking if you know what I mean , about having so much empty house ( though he 's hardly the kind of tenant that that kind of consideration would provide ) , and he even pays some rent from time to time . |
8 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
9 | No there was er three lads in the double bed and er another two lads in the single bed in one room , and mother was in the front room of course she had husband in those days you see when we were growing up , there was a it was not unusual to sleep top-to- tail if we had any pals , if we had a party and we had any pals we 'd sleep top-to-tail one with a head at the bottom and others with their head at the top , sounds like something out of the Dickens when you start talking about it do n't it ? |
10 | No there was er three lads in the double bed and er another two lads in the single bed in one room , and mother was in the front room of course she had husband in those days you see when we were growing up , there was a it was not unusual to sleep top-to- tail if we had any pals , if we had a party and we had any pals we 'd sleep top-to-tail one with a head at the bottom and others with their head at the top , sounds like something out of the Dickens when you start talking about it do n't it ? |
11 | I never knew we had any baronets attending St Matthew 's . ’ |
12 | ‘ In the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ when these children were uplifted , none of us had any idea what a national scandal we were dealing with . |
13 | It was then a question of waiting to be called up and none of us had any idea how long this would be . |
14 | and erm he was always talking about erm different types of lathe and chucks and things like that and er , none of us had any idea what he was |
15 | None of us had any idea what observation meant , but we had to write down a sentence or something we had noticed on our way to school . |
16 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
17 | Only eight of us had any sort of previous military experience : Marius , myself , Chris , a German from Oberammergau who had killed a tourist in the celebrations surrounding the Passion Play , a Frenchman , Mike the Rhodesian , and a Portuguese and a Rumanian who had both served with their countries ' airborne regiments . |
18 | The Chief-Corporal in charge shouted out that if any of us had any sisters , we were to stand up . |