Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [verb] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not intended to contribute to the debate but the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) , who introduced the motion , was asked several questions during his introductory speech and he failed stoically to produce any answers . |
| 2 | He 'd already lost any respect or hope he 'd once had for Changez . |
| 3 | As I said , part of Barny 's problem was that he 'd never had any contact with people at all , and by the time I got him it was too late . |
| 4 | He 'd never had any particular fear of darkness , but over the past few weeks he seemed to have grown more and more nervous at night . |
| 5 | ( There is no evidence that he had yet gained any military experience . ) |
| 6 | The defendant , who gave evidence at the trial , also denied that he had confessed to Zaidie and further denied that he had ever made any threats against Paulette , as alleged by Zaidie and Matadial . |
| 7 | He did not tell her that hers was the only female reputation he had ever given any thought to and that he did not know why he bothered . |
| 8 | If he had ever had any feeling for her it was now stone-dead . |
| 9 | He had always denied any allegations of improper dealings . |
| 10 | Numbers may , of course , bring increased power and in the Crofter case Viscount Maugham said that he had never felt any difficulty in seeing ‘ the great difference between the acts of one person and the acts in combination of two or of a multitude , ’ but , as Viscount Simon L.C. remarked in the same case : |
| 11 | I remembered how once , when a tunnel had been successfully completed contrary to expectation , he had jockeyed himself into a position on the team which finally escaped although he had never done any of the work . |
| 12 | He had never seen any of them before , but the girl knocked on the window and shouted to them . |
| 13 | In his adult life he had never struck any person , certainly not Sara , not even his children in anger . |
| 14 | He had never made any connection at all between Indian women and trade unions . |
| 15 | He had never made any bones about it , and , to be honest , he was much more use out on the slopes , chatting people up , showing off the exclusive styles they sold and being a general advertisement for the place . |
| 16 | Richter said on Jan. 7 that he had never signed any pledge to collaborate with the StB , nor had he ever given it any information . |
| 17 | Although Dalgliesh knew of Alice Mair 's reputation as a cookery writer he had never read any of her books and had no idea to what culinary school , if any , she belonged . |
| 18 | He had never confided any of his suspicions about being followed to Mr Malik . |
| 19 | He wanted very much to do something to please her , and it was hard , for he had never had any kind of a way with women , did not know their minds or their tastes , except for Ma . |
| 20 | He responded that he had never had any wish to see me anyway . |
| 21 | He had never had any aspirations to enter politics . |
| 22 | Over £100,000 was spent on the campaign , which ran for six months , and culminated in the then Chancellor Nigel Lawson 's smug remark , following the Budget in March 1985 , that he had never had any intention of imposing a tax on books . |
| 23 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 24 | The difficulty was that there was a naval lieutenant in charge of the tow and he refused absolutely to let any officer of the Chilean Navy on to the Santa Maria del Sud to assess the damage . |