Example sentences of "none of them " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of them is new and they are all straightforward . |
| 2 | None of them were particularly concerned with ‘ glamour ’ . |
| 3 | Foreigners may be all right abroad but we do n't want none of them and their ways here . ’ |
| 4 | The morning crew were a little surprised to find they had a new colleague but none of them was unduly perturbed by the intrusion . |
| 5 | ‘ I bet none of them are showing anything as daft as this , ’ I mused to myself . |
| 6 | In this case , I saw her caught with classic techniques — but none of them scored . |
| 7 | And yet , none of them , who have so much in common with X , who have so much regard for their fellow man , was at the funeral this afternoon . |
| 8 | But he had grown to understand that none of them could even pretend to these things . |
| 9 | None of them looked up when she and Michael entered . |
| 10 | There are arguments for all possible positions , but none of them convinces us for long ( see chapters 1 and 5 ) . |
| 11 | Judaism produced Marx , Freud and Einstein , none of them Orthodox but all influenced by Jewish culture . |
| 12 | His talk was peppered with quotations from The Satanic Verses , none of them put in context and almost all involving obscenities . |
| 13 | At present , none of them can . |
| 14 | It hardly augurs well — especially as none of them have won an international in Paris . |
| 15 | Years later one of Cahiers ' most influential critics , Jean-Luc Godard , admitted that none of them had really believed in the theory , but had used it to draw attention to themselves . |
| 16 | None of them made a special selection of materials suitable for the peasantry , so the few books that were dispatched were often too dry or too expensive . |
| 17 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 18 | The Roman Catholics were interested that a combination between a Russian refugee , Georges Florovsky , an English high churchman , Michael Ramsey , and a dogmatic Swiss Protestant , Karl Barth , brought the ecumenical movement to an impasse because none of them was prepared to put up with a Protestant federation , and the union of these unlikely allies was too powerful to overcome . |
| 19 | Surtax , profits tax , fuel tax — none of them , not even Schedule A of the income tax , has achieved the independent existence and power of survival which belongs to an institution . |
| 20 | There are a number of biographies of Stanley Baldwin , the Conservative leader ; but none of them really casts much light on his attitude to the crisis . |
| 21 | do n't obsess yourself with the idea that none of them ( Unionist MPs ) understand the view of the man in the street … there is plenty of soundness in the party inside the House … and , easy as it is to call everyone inside Parliamentarians , and to assume that everyone outside are the only judges … you will have to get inside before you realize the difficulties of the situation , or the value of the cool-headed men who still represent the Unionist party in the House , and remain independent of Cabinet influence … |
| 22 | None of them looked up as they passed . |
| 23 | I spoke to Sikh and Hindu children in Southall and none of them had been withdrawn from religious education lessons . |
| 24 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
| 25 | In fairness none of them appeared at the Berlin show that began only two days after Paris , a show signalling a new frontier for the German manufacturers , who may just , in 10 years ' time , give the French as much to think about as the Japanese do . |
| 26 | ‘ Although there are several people sitting on the FISA Commission whom I like and respect , none of them has ever done any serious motor racing , ’ he warned . |
| 27 | My new pair of peach-faced lovebirds produced a clutch of 10 eggs , but none of them has hatched . |
| 28 | If these emotions stirred under the stubbly balding crown , Charlie showed none of them . |
| 29 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 30 | Hundreds and hundreds of them , and none of them know me . |