Example sentences of "have [vb pp] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at the old man , peering darkly under his down-drawn brows ; and there was one who would have questioned and writhed and wondered , pondering long before he would have given any answer , and then , most likely , regretting the answer he had given , whatever it chanced to be . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , Emily Bronte never went to Ireland ( nor did her grandfather travel to England ) , so I am afraid she would not have heard any story ‘ at the fireside on the farm at Drumballyroney in Co . |
| 3 | It has its pointers to the future , but I would have forgiven any Vienna professor in 1876 who failed to predict what was to follow . |
| 4 | If the dependent subsidiary provisions are triggered then any " chargeable increase in the value of the shares " within s79 Finance Act 1988 can give management a Schedule E income tax charge , at a time when management will not have realised any cash from the increased value in the shares to pay the tax . |
| 5 | By then we should have completed any changes to the constitution and bye-laws , have decided on the long term future of our examination system and have strengthened our financial position so that we can meet the costs involved . |
| 6 | It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house . |
| 7 | The quality of accommodation would n't have won any stars ; blackholes , maybe ! |
| 8 | Tristan would never have won any prizes as an exponent of the haute cuisine . |
| 9 | As we indicate to the general assembly in the printed report , the Board could have insisted on its rights under contract made with those bodies and the Board was confident that it would have won any action in the courts . |
| 10 | NEIL Booth may not have won any silverware in Swansea . |
| 11 | D c c could you have visualized any way in which production could have been controlled apart from his down about a certain amount ? |
| 12 | One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't have expected any relation of Caro 's to be such an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy . |
| 14 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 15 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 16 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 17 | This is because the conditions needed for the Big Bang had to be so finely tuned — to an amazing one part in 10&sup60 ; ( a big number even on a cosmic scale ) — that the most minute variations would not have permitted any life at all to develop . |
| 18 | The Communist Party , moreover , was a unitary organisation based upon the same principle of democratic centralism , and there was no constitutional court which , as in a true federation , could have resolved any dispute about the respective powers of the republics and of the USSR as a whole . |
| 19 | She nonchalantly waved a hand in a direction that might have included any tent in the camp . |
| 20 | They say belts would have prevented any injuries in wales … |
| 21 | Even though individual Christians might never have suffered any harassment , their corporate existence and their way of thinking were determined by this condition . |
| 22 | Treitel ( 8th ed. ) , p. 87 says of Ward v. Byham : ‘ One basis of the decision is that the mother had provided consideration by showing that she had made the child happy , etc. : in this way she can be said to have conferred a factual benefit on the father , even though she may not have suffered any detriment . ’ |
| 23 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 24 | Just instinct , because I had my painting clothes on and a bit of water would n't have done any harm . |
| 25 | So I think caution is erm very important in buying a computer , and if you wait a couple of months erm you wo n't have done any harm , because something newer and more beautiful is always on the way . |
| 26 | Not that it would have done any good . |
| 27 | But it is difficult to imagine how Dustin could have felt any involvement in the picture . |
| 28 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 29 | It did not seem likely that the Sun , at any rate , would have felt any qualms about printing it in full . |
| 30 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |