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 . ’ |