Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb past] any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour .
2 By contrast , when adults were accompanying children , during a similar three-minute period , less than half of them had any communication at all with their children ; and in two-fifths of the pairs ‘ what took place was negative ’ .
3 Margaret tried them all , but none of them had any help for her .
4 Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes .
5 Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money .
6 Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience .
7 None of them shed any tears over Riddle . ’
8 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 ’ :
9 None of them raised any matter of substance and I need not consider them further .
10 Had any of them made any approaches to her ?
11 They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation .
12 None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture .
13 ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded .
14 None of them took any notice of Darwin , but the feathers and fossils aroused mild interest .
15 It was puzzling : neither of them expressed any desire actually to see their origins again .
16 Neither of them paid any heed to the poor old grand-father , who had to tend the sacred fire all on his own .
17 Neither of them showed any inclination to do other than sit outside the café in the sunshine , and Oliver had shifted the conversation far away from the Durances and murder .
18 ‘ I tried the bank manager and the lawyer on that one and neither of them showed any enthusiasm .
19 None of them showed any interest , however , in debating the matter with her or with us .
20 Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all .
21 ‘ Have n't any of you got any work to do ? ’ he snapped .
22 None of it brought any response from him .
23 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 .
24 Not one word of it made any sense at all to him .
25 None of it made any sense .
26 None of it made any sense !
27 But none of it made any difference .
28 ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’
29 ‘ In the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ when these children were uplifted , none of us had any idea what a national scandal we were dealing with .
30 It was then a question of waiting to be called up and none of us had any idea how long this would be .
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