Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There never seemed to be any time , ’ she said defensively . |
| 2 | It is gross waste that a man with such qualities should be turned into a traitor , when I think he never willed to be any such monster , but wanted only his native right . |
| 3 | But the months of separation from her husband , and the events those months contained , came to mark a fundamental breach in their relationship , after which there ceased to be any hope that their early married happiness could be recovered . |
| 4 | In practice , few of the conceptual embellishments of the idea of the ‘ freedom of the press ’ proved to be any more than occasional glimpses of what an ideal press ought to be like . |
| 5 | Nigel 's wife was obviously such a monster , too , that it had to be any good woman 's Christian duty to save him from a fate worse than death , or at the very least to give him a little light relief . |
| 6 | SCHOOLS Minister Michael Fallon yesterday denied that there had to be any cuts in the education budget in Northumberland . |