Example sentences of "it [vb past] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
| 2 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 3 | None of it made any sense . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
| 5 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 6 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 7 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 8 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
| 9 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think it made any difference to my career or Peter 's , ’ says Finney . |
| 11 | It excluded any mention of the virgin birth . |
| 12 | It rejected any idea that an organisation should ever be created to suit the individual characteristics of people . |
| 13 | While accepting that officers must adapt to political reality — by , for example , being prepared when invited to attend party groups subject to certain safeguards — it rejected any move towards a ‘ spoils system ’ in local government , and recommended that principal officers should be prohibited from engaging in political activity , including standing for council office . |
| 14 | From what she had read in the diary , it seemed any boy with a pleasing face and the latest clothes was in for a good time . |
| 15 | DEC says it delayed any announcement until now so there would be meat on the bones , not just promises . |
| 16 | As amended in 1965 , it covered any person who in any public place or at any public meeting used threatening , abusive , or insulting words or behaviour or distributed or displayed any writing , sign , or other visible representation which was threatening , abusive , or insulting . |
| 17 | " Actual " seems to mean " more than trivial " though Taylor v Granville [ 1978 ] Crim LR 482 said that it covered any harm , however slight . |
| 18 | In fact he did n't even seem to feel that it required any show of gratitude . |
| 19 | None of it brought any response from him . |
| 20 | As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book . |
| 21 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 22 | It precluded any necessity to make sense of something yourself , to make real connections . |
| 23 | The Government 's green paper on the future of the BBC spoke inspiringly of the particular needs and interests of the UK 's constituent nations , which it said any recast structure should reflect . |
| 24 | Also , although he would have denied it had any influence at all , Ketura had told him Jeopardy used that court , and that he always practised early . |
| 25 | The data was submitted on a confidential basis , because of the possibility of future publication , and so it is not possible to ascertain whether or not it had any influence on the deliberations of the Review body , but their conclusions on the quality of post-graduate geological research undertaken in Dundee and Strathclyde Universities were exactly in line with the quantitative findings described later . |
| 26 | Earlier another Bond director Mr Tony Oates said the corporation vigorously denied it had any knowledge of the alleged phone-bugging operation . |
| 27 | And erm you know the erm er , I , I do n't know whether it had any adjustment changes or what , but |
| 28 | I find that an extraordinary statement of policy , because I had always believed that , in so far as it had any justification at all , the Labour party 's commitment to unilateralism , to the closure of bases , to the withdrawal from NATO , was based on a principle — on a deeply held conviction that those things were wrong . |
| 29 | At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value . |
| 30 | And she thought , as she stood there with Rosie , Susie , Katie , Isabel , Janice and Heather , that none of it mattered , none of it had any importance , in view of the fact that she was going . |