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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] none [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless .
2	I hope none of the candidates mind , ’ said teacher Dot Long , who in her role as a Darlington councillor has probably encountered many different forms of political intrigue .
3	‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details .
4	When I started the book in the summer of 1980 , I knew none of the East End skins .
5	In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates .
6	I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death .
7	I have none in the whole world to call my own .
8	She lacked none of the courage typical of her Aries star sign .
9	Portlington was a public school so minor that you got none of the cachet for having been there that is the real point of an English public school education .
10	Even though the gas flames are shielded , you lose none of the beauty of cooking with gas .
11	‘ So you heard none of the commotion when Sarah Parker roused Dr Darnell ? ’
12	Even if you decide none of the resorts , hotels or cities featured here is quite what you have in mind , we can still help .
13	She knew none of the others possessed the ambition which fired her .
14	With him , she felt none of the seething intoxication of love or lust or whatever it was which called her to Cameron .
15	But she felt none of the joy she had anticipated .
16	If you 've none in the house you ca n't smoke them .
17	She had none of the fears of the normal servant that her honesty might ever be in doubt and her absolute conviction of her own integrity had finally communicated itself to the old man and been conceded by him .
18	She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house .
19	Greg felt suddenly sorry for her : she had none of the confidence of Hilda Machin in repelling the sort of attacks Viola was so expert at mounting .
20	She had none of the widow 's aura , none of the comfort of children .
21	With me she had none of the shyness she had exhibited in Byron 's company the evening before .
22	Not seeing Jane , however , was no cause for regret ; she had none of the kindly qualities of her husband .
23	A special ‘ Old Town Walk ’ leaflet is available to ensure that you miss none of the highlights !
24	She recognized none of the hangings , the furniture , the instruments scattered about .
25	Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record .
26	If a computer printed out that its memory was suffering from a certain kind of fault , we might be persuaded from past experience to go on examining its hardware for faults , even though we found none in the initially plausible places .
27	Crime is nearly unknown among our people , and we have none of the means or experience to pursue it .
28	The main problem with proving this theory is that , while we have a relative abundance of fossils of human ancestors from the east of the Rift , we have none from the west .
29	Yet they enjoy none of the advantages of debentureholders ; they receive a return on their money only if profits are earned ( and not necessarily even then ) , they rank after creditors on a winding-up and they have less effective remedies against the company .
30	After thirty years of British rule , observed the distinguished scholar-administrator Henry Fosbrooke , they displayed none of the distressing symptoms of that ‘ soul erosion ’ , defined by him as a ‘ deterioration in obedience to existing moral standards , a falling off in observance of organized religion , a lack of purpose in life ’ , which seemed so often to be the result of British efforts to bring civilization to the African .