Example sentences of "[indef pn] of [pron] really [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | A rather strange collection of men and women , thought Rupert with an anthropologist 's detachment , none of whom really know each other but between whom waves and currents of feeling are already beginning to pass . |
2 | None of which really helps us to make up our minds . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Last year none of them really knew me . |
5 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
6 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
7 | None of them really grilled Mr Major about Maastricht . |
8 | After the album , we did two or three scattered tracks and various things , but as none of it really sold , we suddenly did n't see him around any more . |
9 | The edgy , intense performances he 'd racked up ( as the raging skinhead in Alan Clarke 's Made In Britain , as a retarded teen in Mike Leigh 's Meantime , as a gangster hooligan in ( The Hit ) , the Most Promising Newcomer Award the Evening Standard gave him — none of it really helped . |
10 | None of it really needed saying , least of all to Charlie Ferris . |
11 | Merlyn said : ‘ None of us really know whether it 's heroin or not . |
12 | ‘ None of us really knew him . ’ |
13 | None of us really knew for certain what had gone wrong , although , well , you could n't help putting two and two together . |
14 | None of us really knew what we were going to see , and in the early days the tapes were rather artificial because the lessons were all so well prepared , the kids knew they were going to have a video in the classes , it did n't mean that they were always well behaved ! |
15 | None of us really slept ; we just lay there , listening to the wind and the jackals howling . |
16 | No-one actually said ‘ Piss off ’ to anyone else , or ‘ You 're fired ’ or ‘ You 're hired ’ ; it was more or less a thing where none of us really communicated at all . |
17 | It was n't that I would n't try Terry 's material , because we did try it ; it 's just that none of us really liked it . |