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Example sentences for "had any"

  • You must not suppose that he had any generosity of feeling for the fatherless boy; it merely suited his ambitious schemes to oppose the King of England.

  • What other human being can have had any ill-will against this woman, or any interest in destroying her?

  • I am not disposed to think that he had any hand in the doing of the deed; but I think the he has a knowledge of her guilt.

  • Not that I had any beauty, or ever pretended to have any, only a solid healthy face, which many girls have laughed at.

  • And you would think I had any amount of work in me, as you saw me riding or walking or holding services.

  • Of course, you're the best judge of your own knees, but after last night--Had any lunch?

  • If he hadn't had any luncheon he hadn't had much breakfast.

  • How are they to find out that we had any hand in it?

  • One day father told us a bit of news that made a stir in the camp, and nearly would have Jim and me clear out altogether if we'd had any place to go to.

  • Sometimes I used to throw myself down upon the sand and curse the day when I ever did anything that I had any call to be ashamed of and put myself in the power of everything bad and evil in all my life through.

  • We haven't had any rain to speak of for a couple of months, and that bit of wheat of ours is beginning to go back.

  • No," says I "if I had any thing to say, I should write to your brother.

  • You will have no difficulty in allowing that mounseer, is typical enough of France: except Cyrus, who is the only heathen prince mentioned by his right name, and that before he had any name, I know no power so expressly described.

  • He did not yet see that he had any need to be forgiven.

  • That political whirlpool might suck me in, if I had any heart or hopes for it.

  • Had any of the accomplices of the crime, of the smugglers who had attacked the convoy, been arrested since the attempt?

  • Had any confessions or half-confessions been brought forward?

  • The doctor was no lawyer, and hardly knew whether he had any means of extricating himself from this position in which his friend was determined to place him.

  • Not in the least; neither had he any such interest, nor did the squire think that he had any.

  • We would be glad we had any other to offer after him, and in revenge of him.

  • They have never even asked themselves whether I had any furniture at all.

  • If I had any remnant of affection for such a mean wretch, I could give him reasons that would renew his passion!

  • Your daughter Hortense almost died of it when she was told that it is thanks to your brother that we had any dinner at all.

  • He was, I began to perceive, so much better than I had any right to expect.

  • Enormous unseen changes had been in progress for years in my mind and the realities of my life, before our general circle could have had any inkling of their existence, or suspected the appearances of our life.

  • If I'd gone to a university; if I'd had any sort of sound training, if I hadn't slipped into the haphazard places that came easiest.

  • Oh, I don't fancy he had any nursing, poor fellow!

  • I should not like a suspicion of worldliness to rest upon any one with whom I had any concern.

  • There were not many people who had any right to be invited to the funeral, and of these Mr. Gibson and the squire's hereditary man of business had taken charge.

  • It was a long time before we had any breakfast.

  • His French had never been equal to its words, but its sense he knew, if it had any sense, a gipsy thing--wild and unaccountable.

  • Jon was grieved because it lasted two, owing to certain matters in connection with a dressmaker; as if his mother, who looked beautiful in anything, had any need of dresses!

  • Not that he had any desire to spy on her actions, but there was no harm in thus unexpectedly surveying the scene.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had any" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each formation; first given; had but; had called; had done; had finished; had formed; had given; had got; had heard; had killed; had much; had observed; had obtained; had once; had promised; had resolved; had risen from the; had sent; had taken from the; had turned; had wherever books are; hundred fathoms; know enough; looked quite; love and