Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our only means of escape is alcohol , and I keep off that pretty much ; but I ca n't say I blame chaps for getting drunk ( apart from the fact that it does n't do you any good ) , for few of them take any interest in books . |
| 2 | None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Margaret tried them all , but none of them had any help for her . |
| 5 | Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes . |
| 6 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
| 7 | Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience . |
| 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 | None of them raised any matter of substance and I need not consider them further . |
| 11 | Had any of them made any approaches to her ? |
| 12 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 13 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 14 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | 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 . " |
| 17 | None of them took any notice of Darwin , but the feathers and fossils aroused mild interest . |
| 18 | The men in the Toms family support each other a great deal ; none of them show any disapproval of Sandy 's lifestyle . |
| 19 | It was puzzling : neither of them expressed any desire actually to see their origins again . |
| 20 | None of them has any connections here , not really ; they 're all bachelors ; at least , in a way . |
| 21 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 22 | Neither of them paid any heed to the poor old grand-father , who had to tend the sacred fire all on his own . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I tried the bank manager and the lawyer on that one and neither of them showed any enthusiasm . |
| 25 | None of them showed any interest , however , in debating the matter with her or with us . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | None of them fit together , none of them makes any sense . |
| 28 | However , neither of them makes any reference to her husband , or to the dynamics of her marriage relationship in these comments , though Norma Larkin makes some ( implicit ) observations about marriage in general . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Only a few of them have any idea what it is like for school to be a persistent diet of boredom , incomprehension and failure . |