Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full of stairs and small rooms on each floor and no garden to speak of , only a kind of paved area leading off the basement kitchen which rarely got any sun . |
| 2 | Her arrival effectively stemmed any action he was about to take . |
| 3 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 4 | What is particularly interesting is that the report implies that it was MI5 who endlessly delayed any decision rather than the prison authorities . |
| 5 | He apparently reckoned any pressure would n't be effective . |
| 6 | She especially loved any opportunity to contradict those interviewers who assumed that , as the company which bore her name was so successful , she must be an ardent feminist . |
| 7 | McLeish repressed a grin and bustled into the big noisy pub on the corner , receiving an instant acknowledgement from one of the bartenders , who all knew any member of the C1 hierarchy . |
| 8 | About 1,200 members of the 1,400-strong central committee took part in the July 22 vote , which effectively delayed any party leadership contest at least until 1991 . |
| 9 | Well , he generally caused any aggravation that was floating around , but he would never admit it . |
| 10 | Spencer thus condemned any attempt to change women 's position in society , just as he opposed any state intervention to safeguard the position of the poor and weak . |
| 11 | I no longer saw any warmth in numbers . |
| 12 | She no longer felt any animosity towards him and was moved to tenderness by his obvious misery . |
| 13 | In waking life it was too strong to allow me to indulge myself in secret feasts , and I no longer felt any desire for them . |
| 14 | Lacayo strenuously denied any knowledge of or involvement in corruption . |
| 15 | Pale , Bosnia : BOSNIAN Serbs called for a new peace plan for Bosnia after declaring the current one dead yesterday but Muslim-led government leaders said this meant the West no longer had any excuse to avoid decisive action . |
| 16 | Money , said Constance , no longer had any relevance to the value of half a dozen eggs or a side of mutton , but had become a separate commodity for rich men to play with . |
| 17 | That smile and that gesture had charm and elegance , while the face and the body no longer had any charm . |
| 18 | Sixty per cent of the single women and 47 per cent of the ex-married women no longer had any contact with their former partner . |
| 19 | She no longer had any idea what it was she wanted to say to him . |
| 20 | Except that Trent no longer had any hope . |
| 21 | It had dawned on me that not only was I leaving the comfortingly familiar surroundings of primary school but that I no longer had any influence whatsoever on the other pupils at the school which I had had before but I was to be demoted to ‘ the annoying first year ’ . |
| 22 | More interesting than any of this , though , was the dog which was allowed to bark in the night , presumably on the grounds that it no longer had any bite . |
| 23 | But by then the Soviet Union no longer had any faith in the sincerity of a government which it believed had encouraged Fascism for many years . |
| 24 | If the centre could no longer deliver the goods , reasoned many Ukrainians and Belorussians , the union itself no longer had any purpose . |
| 25 | Such ideal conditions contrast sharply with the actual experiences of ‘ war communism ’ : money became valueless because of the disappearance of goods , wages were replaced by rations — the rations of abject poverty not abundance — prices became imaginary because money no longer had any value , and paper money was issued by keeping the printing presses working day and night , amounting to hyper-inflation ! |
| 26 | Ruth no longer had any feeling of being below the sea . |
| 27 | President Carlos Menem of Argentina announced on Sept. 19 that his country was to withdraw from the NAM because the movement " no longer had any reason to exist " . |
| 28 | Referring to Peter Brooke 's statement that the British Government no longer had any interest in staying in Ireland , Daisy said : ‘ Peter Brooke 's talks about talks are all but finished . |
| 29 | She goes on to say that the justices came to the view that the justice on the Friday had had no power to remand Mr. Bell in custody until the Monday , as the remand did not fall within the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 and that , accordingly , they no longer had any jurisdiction to hear the matter . |
| 30 | Standard English no longer had any status in the community and native speakers of English were almost entirely absent . |