Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pers pn] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't said anything that had given her any indication that he actually cared for her . |
| 2 | Swan asked Amaranth if Harvey had given her any information about the new motorway . |
| 3 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 4 | None of the changes had given him any added zest for life — or , for that matter , any desire to look for trouble where no trouble was self-evidently present . |
| 5 | The parents had n't been offered any sort of advice or counselling ; they had all received a letter from Paul Lee inviting them to come and talk to his department , but no one had offered them any information about their children ; if they wanted that they had to ring up the department and ask for it . |
| 6 | This was a quite remarkable transformation in a man who only two years before had talked of dying : neither fame nor literary achievement had brought him any contentment , and in the end it was human love , the love that he had dismissed in his writings as the consolation only of ordinary men , that rescued him from a lifetime of misery and isolation . |
| 7 | From his visit to the Burgers , Wycliffe had learned something about art , more about the art trade , and a good deal about Edwin Garland , but he wondered whether it had brought him any closer to establishing a motive for the murder of Francis . |
| 8 | If I had left it any later , she would have completely dominated me . " |