Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
| 6 | 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 . |