Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing for us knocking each others ' doors at nights about midnight coming for a swim and we 'd all go down . |
| 2 | At another he speculates that none of them knew much about news or editing . |
| 3 | None of them took any notice of Darwin , but the feathers and fossils aroused mild interest . |
| 4 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 5 | None of them seemed anxious to comply and Trent doubted his strength would last long enough to haul Gomez against the weight of the Zodiac . |
| 6 | None of them seemed keen to be involved with the police . |
| 7 | He believed the nurses all fancied him , but none of them seemed willing to do anything about it . |
| 8 | Her duties were many , and none of them seemed onerous to her . |
| 9 | None of them shed any tears over Riddle . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ’ : |
| 11 | The three new subcommittees each met in Panmunjom , but none of them produced any significant progress . |
| 12 | Certainly , none of them looked afraid . |
| 13 | Of the monumental stones he writes " However the knowledge of their general existence may " be interesting , there is nothing in them , individually considered , to call for a particular description , " and of the islands in the lochs he says " Similar remains , situated in the same manner , are seen at Loch Finlaggan ; but none of them present any interest to detain either the painter or the antiquary . " |
| 14 | Of the monumental stones he writes " However the knowledge of their general existence may " be interesting , there is nothing in them , individually considered , to call for a particular description , " and of the islands in the lochs he says " Similar remains , situated in the same manner , are seen at Loch Finlaggan ; but none of them present any interest to detain either the painter or the antiquary . " |
| 15 | They none of them had much money , but the Bouveries had a house , for which they did not have to pay rent . |
| 16 | Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes . |
| 17 | Margaret tried them all , but none of them had any help for her . |
| 18 | None of them had any particular wish to be abroad after dark . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But none of them lay still in quite this way . |
| 21 | None of them yield easy climbs , the approaches being rough and the summits gained over pathless terrain liberally endowed with cliffs . |
| 22 | But none of them does full justice to the purpose of Scripture as set out by the Bible writers themselves , or to the cumulative experience of Bible users through the centuries . |
| 23 | None of them raised any matter of substance and I need not consider them further . |
| 24 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 25 | The men in the Toms family support each other a great deal ; none of them show any disapproval of Sandy 's lifestyle . |
| 26 | None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour . |
| 27 | But when she 'd arrived the boat had been deserted and , as darkness had gradually obscured first the surrounding countryside and then the outlines of neighbouring boats , none of them showing any lights , she had become just a little anxious . |
| 28 | British law comprises thousands of separate statutes and decided cases : none of them give unqualified support to freedom of expression . |
| 29 | So which is ‘ real ’ , or do none of them possess any ultimate ‘ reality ’ ? |
| 30 | Three rivers rise in these uplands , the Nene , Welland and Avon , but none of them carries much water before they drain eastward and westward off the plateau , and the total water supply available for canal development in the area was never adequate . |