Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
| 2 | Her embarrassment continued when she was introduced to a procession of Korean shop workers , none of whom spoke any English . |
| 3 | Despite Knox 's fulminations against ‘ that cruel tyrant and unmerciful hypocrite ’ , the archbishop of St Andrews , and the ‘ woman born to dissemble and deceive ’ , Mary of Guise , it was in fact an act quite out of character of both archbishop and regent , neither of whom showed any taste for persecution . |
| 4 | None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Margaret tried them all , but none of them had any help for her . |
| 7 | Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes . |
| 8 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
| 9 | Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience . |
| 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 | None of them raised any matter of substance and I need not consider them further . |
| 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 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 14 | None of them took any notice of Darwin , but the feathers and fossils aroused mild interest . |
| 15 | It was puzzling : neither of them expressed any desire actually to see their origins again . |
| 16 | Neither of them paid any heed to the poor old grand-father , who had to tend the sacred fire all on his own . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I tried the bank manager and the lawyer on that one and neither of them showed any enthusiasm . |
| 19 | None of them showed any interest , however , in debating the matter with her or with us . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mercier and Baker ( 1985 ) ( see also Baker and Mercier 1982a ) report the results of an extensive and thorough series of experiments ( using the conditioned suppression procedure and a clicker and a light as the stimuli ) , none of which yielded any indication that the S1-S2 procedure diminished the magnitude of latent inhibition . |
| 22 | ‘ Have n't any of you got any work to do ? ’ he snapped . |
| 23 | None of it brought any response from him . |
| 24 | And she thought , as she stood there with Rosie , Susie , Katie , Isabel , Janice and Heather , that none of it mattered , none of it had any importance , in view of the fact that she was going . |
| 25 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 26 | None of it made any sense . |
| 27 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 28 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 29 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ In the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ when these children were uplifted , none of us had any idea what a national scandal we were dealing with . |