Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were ‘ volunteers ’ who between them had vast experience of how ‘ Maranyl ’ was manufactured on our five extrusion systems at Billingham . |
| 2 | You know damn well I 've never blamed you for what happened that night ; it was one of those risks we had to take . |
| 3 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
| 4 | Her embarrassment continued when she was introduced to a procession of Korean shop workers , none of whom spoke any English . |
| 5 | Mercier and Baker ( 1985 ) ( see also Baker and Mercier 1982a ) report the results of an extensive and thorough series of experiments ( using the conditioned suppression procedure and a clicker and a light as the stimuli ) , none of which yielded any indication that the S1-S2 procedure diminished the magnitude of latent inhibition . |
| 6 | None of them took any notice of Darwin , but the feathers and fossils aroused mild interest . |
| 7 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 8 | None of them shed any tears over Riddle . ’ |
| 9 | Harry felt as if he had heard or read them all before , in one form or another , and none of them shed any light on what had struck Mrs Diamond as ‘ not right ’ : |
| 10 | They none of them had much money , but the Bouveries had a house , for which they did not have to pay rent . |
| 11 | Margaret tried them all , but none of them had any help for her . |
| 12 | Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes . |
| 13 | None of them had direct experience of retail tariff-making and they were to find most of their initiatives on tariffs blocked by the Area Board chairmen . |
| 14 | None of them raised any matter of substance and I need not consider them further . |
| 15 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 16 | None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour . |
| 17 | None of them showed any interest , however , in debating the matter with her or with us . |
| 18 | None of it brought any response from him . |
| 19 | And she thought , as she stood there with Rosie , Susie , Katie , Isabel , Janice and Heather , that none of it mattered , none of it had any importance , in view of the fact that she was going . |
| 20 | None of it made any sense . |
| 21 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 22 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 23 | Although there was a flurry of Jacobite plotting and conspiracy in the period 1689 – 97 , none of it stood much chance of success . |
| 24 | But apart from Charlie , none of us had high expectations ; we had a combination of miserable expectations and wild hopes . |
| 25 | ‘ In the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ when these children were uplifted , none of us had any idea what a national scandal we were dealing with . |
| 26 | It was then a question of waiting to be called up and none of us had any idea how long this would be . |
| 27 | and erm he was always talking about erm different types of lathe and chucks and things like that and er , none of us had any idea what he was |
| 28 | None of us had any idea what observation meant , but we had to write down a sentence or something we had noticed on our way to school . |
| 29 | This was nothing to what came ten years later , no more than a mini-boom , but prices began to rise and estate agents to rub their hands and gird their loins and look about them . |
| 30 | Over those years Eliot would visit him during what became regular trips to the United States ; he also wrote a number of letters to those in authority in order to ease his conditions : he talks about the time Pound should be allowed to spend alone , for example , and the condition of the buildings in which he was confined . |