Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Skiing in November is not unheard of in Scotland : last year it snowed heavily in the west Highlands in October but the warmer weather in December and January put paid to any hopes of building up a decent depth of snow pack .
2 Haydon failed to come to any agreement with his creditors .
3 Mrs Williams had left before any violence took place and Mr Morton , who was not well enough to give evidence , left as the attack started .
4 That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’
5 THREE second half tries in eight minutes from Wigan put paid to any hopes the ambitious Eagles had of grabbing a shock win at Central Park last night .
6 Discussions at the meeting of the Council of Internal Market Ministers held on 18 June failed to result in any agreement on the long outstanding European Company Statute , first proposed in 1970 and long deadlocked on the issue of employee participation .
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