Example sentences of "[been] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 2 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 3 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 4 | I mean , Diana herself has never in her lifetime uttered one statement that has been of any use to any member of the human race . ’ |
| 5 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 6 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 8 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 9 | I 've told them everything I could think of that might help , but so far it does n't seem to have been of any use . ’ |
| 10 | Had she been of any other class , he would long ago have stormed her defences and conquered . |
| 11 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 12 | It had n't been like any other seance I had ever seen … |
| 13 | He could have been behind any of the closed doors . |
| 14 | There have been more judgments against Britain at the European Court of Human Rights than there have been against any other country . |
| 15 | Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs . |
| 16 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 17 | No off-worlder has ever been inside any of them , but we are told that there are caverns , vaults within vaults , like those ancient puzzles where ever opened box reveals another , smaller box . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course I have n't been in any rackets . |
| 19 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 20 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 21 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 22 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
| 23 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 24 | Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before . |
| 25 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 26 | ‘ Ask him , ’ I said , ‘ if Sheridan Lorrimore has ever been in any trouble that he knows of , apart from assaulting an actor at Toronto , that should have resulted in Sheridan going to jail . ’ |
| 27 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 28 | I do n't know where he did his police training , but it does n't seem to have been in any recognisable academy . |
| 29 | If you have been in any of the following situations , you will have been credited with contributions ( instead of having to pay them ) : |
| 30 | If the highly developed woollen textile industry be disregarded , the structure of crafts and trades of Babergh may not have been in any way unrepresentative of the shires at that time . |