Example sentences of "none [prep] them could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 2 | They spent the day chanting and dancing , and when they came to walk and climb they could be heard speaking Chinese , a language none of them could speak during the rest of the year . |
| 3 | They used Hilbert 's wine glasses because none of them could tolerate drinking from plastic or cartons but they ate off paper plates of which they had bought a hundred . |
| 4 | If there were enough of them , none of them would dare to pin him down , none of them could claim she was anything special . |
| 5 | None of them could have been happy at that time . |
| 6 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 7 | But of course he did n't and none of them could see what he felt like . |
| 8 | well it 's like Elly , you know , I mean even she said she 's , I can really see , she said I even said it in an argument the other day , cos none of them could see at the time |
| 9 | Normally that should present no problem to the team batting second , but none of them could dominate the bowling and the low total seemed to spur England to some brilliant fielding ; when Botham got Gomes and Richards in successive overs , the game moved England 's way , and the rest of the wickets drifted away for a total of just 148 . |
| 10 | They knew that Nkrumah enjoyed a popularity which none of them could emulate . |
| 11 | None of them could disagree that it was a species of tyranny that left an unhappy debtor to the mercy of a remorseless creditor whose affluence prevented him from knowing the sorrows of adversity and who , nursed in the lap of plenty , had never heard the call of hunger or knew the cry of distress . |
| 12 | None of them could understand why a bright and hard-working girl like Lydia would wish to marry him . |
| 13 | None of them could play or sing in tune , and Charlie , who fancied himself on skins , had no real idea of rhythm . |
| 14 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |