Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a compilation of mbaqanga music , very typical of the township jive you would have heard in any shebeen since the 1960s : lively , rollicking music with fluid , chattering guitars . |
| 2 | Opposite him , he noticed that Janet Roscoe had delved once more into the deep handbag , this time producing a very slim volume , whose title it was impossible for him not to see , and which he could have guessed in any case : CHAUCER , Tale of the Wyf of Bathe . |
| 3 | The southumbrian kingdoms could have developed in any number of directions , three of which in particular seem to stand out : a southern England could have emerged , the domination of which was shared between the Mercians and the South Saxons ( this was the prospect in the reign of Wulfhere if the trends of that time had been maintained ) ; or even a south-eastern England dominated by the South Saxons ( this was perhaps a prospect in late 670s ) ; or a southern England dominated from the reign of Caedwalla by the West Saxons ( the prospect in the mid-680s ) . |
| 4 | It would have won round any man but Angel Clare . |
| 5 | It had been skinned , neatly eviscerated , and would have looked like any carcase in a butcher 's shop if it had n't been for the head . |
| 6 | My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years . |
| 7 | I do not think that if the council , on making an inspection , had found the gate newly padlocked , they could have come to any conclusion other than that [ the defendant ] was intending to exclude everyone , including themselves , from the land . " … |
| 8 | ... But no , for he had said her heart was badly damaged , death might have come at any time . |
| 9 | ‘ You could n't have come in any case . |
| 10 | ‘ I may very well not have come in any case , madame . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe I would n't have come in any case . ’ |
| 12 | The election , the most fraught for decades , could have turned on any number of issues . |
| 13 | You must get out of this place and do the one good thinking you 'll ever have done for any woman . |
| 14 | It later transpired that the Hargrave vehicle customs-cleared its load of Spanish refrigerated produce in Dover as it would have done on any night of the year , up till now . |
| 15 | Fabia knew that her mind was made up then , even though she could n't have said with any conviction that she looked forward to going up to that large , elegant house again in a week from now . |
| 16 | For perhaps three seconds guilt was all they did feel , the simple , shocked guilt they would have felt before any adult . |
| 17 | The vicar would never have agreed to any kind of mock funeral , but he finally yielded to Midge 's plea that some intercession should be made for the souls of the unknown man and woman whose charred corpses lay in the refrigerator at the mortuary . |
| 18 | Would n't have wormed through any Factory Safety Act passed in Britain in the last fifty years , open and unshielded parts , and half of the men who used them wore the scars on their hands to prove the danger . |
| 19 | In this event Philip might well have approved of any plan which would make proper provision for his half-sister and her husband , whether it was Aquitaine or even something more . |
| 20 | Since many of the concessions within Freeports can be obtained anywhere through clawbacks and concessions , it is hard to see what activity will be forthcoming , other than would have occurred in any case . |
| 21 | To what extent have UDCs promoted the relocation of economic and physical activity that would have occurred in any case ? |
| 22 | The underlying cause may be the changes in agriculture described in the earlier chapters of this book , but the newcomers represent the most visible and tangible manifestation of a disruption of community life which would have occurred in any case . |
| 23 | It reduces the weights of rules which may never have occurred in any conflict set . |
| 24 | With his keys he could have got into any part . ’ |
| 25 | The containers , palettes or packings must originate , or be , in free circulation within the EC and must not already have benefited from any VAT exemption . |
| 26 | Theo must have known in any case : he was always his parents ' confidant and advisor , as well as his brother 's . |
| 27 | As a gleaner , Ruth could have gone to any part of the field , but she happened to come a fo , part of the field that belonged to Boaz . |
| 28 | He concluded that he would either have saved £2,000 a year or that £2,000 a year would have gone towards any increase that there might have been in the cost of living or any increase in the standard of living of the family . |
| 29 | ‘ This cat had everything and could have gone down any road , ’ said the Beverly Hills Cop star . |
| 30 | Since a number of different initiatives on the issue of civil rights took place between 1962 and 1966 , it was probably fortuitous that the one which led to the creation of an organisation was the Wolfe Tone Societies conference , and even without their intervention , something very like NICRA would probably have emerged in any case . |