Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen , if there 'd been any fruit around I 'd have eaten it . |
| 2 | No , not at all , no I if there 'd been any doubt then I would n't have played , but erm no doubt at all . |
| 3 | If there 'd been any evidence to link the death to anyone connected with the Jonquil the police would have found it by now . |
| 4 | Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy . |
| 5 | Tell him that if there 'd been any chemistry between us at all , I would have married you years ago and if he had any bloody sense he 'd do it now — in fact , forget it , I 'll tell him myself . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Maclean insisted that it was nonsense to suggest there had been any contamination of the food chain or to make comparisons to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 7 | A large venture capital organisation , who refused to comment on individual headhunter performance , wrote that on the whole good candidates had been put forward , but that they would not know if there had been any leaks or illegal use of information by search firms . |
| 8 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 9 | Restraining the wish to thank His Royal Highness for his co-operation , Rose asked the detective whether there had been any incidents at the dining table involving exchange of plates . |
| 10 | On March 13 the Greek government denied that there had been any interference in Albania 's internal affairs , and dissociated itself from a recent declaration by the Metropolitan of Konitsa in which the archbishop had urged Greek Albanians to return to Albania in order to vote in the elections . |
| 11 | We did not claim that there had been any cases of poisoning in Britain , but referred to the numerous American cases ( FDA Drug Bulletin 1977 , vol 7 , p 26 ; New England Journal of Medicine 1979 , vol 300 , p 238 ) . |
| 12 | I was particularly interested to hear if there had been any changes in the condition of skin , nails and hair . |
| 13 | In addition to our aim of forecasting the course of Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ , the second multi-agency enumeration survey also allowed us to investigate whether there had been any changes in the social and drug-using characteristics of known heroin users over the two years of research . |
| 14 | If there had been any apprehension involving the time taken to complete the recording , there is certainly none reflected in the finished product . |
| 15 | If there had been any chance ever of the rescues ' succeeding , that perception would have destroyed it . |
| 16 | Have there had been any stories in the media or er television programmes . |
| 17 | Nobody knew there were any in the loch but then we only got the one and it would not surprise me if he had not eaten all the others if there had been any others that is . |
| 18 | Neither husband nor daughter had been any help . |
| 19 | On the one hand , only three per cent of credit buyers said that there had been any difficulty getting the sort of terms they wanted — more or less regardless of what type-of credit they actually used , or of their socio-economic background . |
| 20 | If there had been any money in the first place . |
| 21 | We looked at the industrial distribution of " users " , at whether there had been any increase in their numbers since 1980 and at differences between user and non-user establishments in terms of their size , output , performance , industrial relations and labour force characteristics . |
| 22 | It was hours now since we had last eaten , hours more since there had been any sleep . |
| 23 | But if there had been any doubt in my mind it would have been immediately resolved by my first breath of the crisp , tangy air . |
| 24 | At least , if there had been any dust it would have been sweeping it . |
| 25 | Intriguing but unimportant differences were that the Earth spun much faster in those early days — so the days and nights were much shorter ; and the moon was much closer , so it would have appeared vast in the sky ( if there had been any creature to observe it ) and the tides would have been far more dramatic . |
| 26 | I wanted to find out if there had been any mistakes , so I asked Ron if he had spotted any . |
| 27 | I pointed out that if there had been any counter demonstration effect would have been serious and very uncomfortable to both of us . |
| 28 | It was the first time in the campaign that there had been any rapport between the embattled figures on the platform and the assembled press and television correspondents . |
| 29 | The magistrate , Mr S.K. Upadhyaya , resplendent among the dusty villagers in a navy blazer and a silver-tipped walking stick , denied that there had been any attempt to intimidate voters . |
| 30 | He expected Willie to ask if there had been any post but there was no response . |