Example sentences of "[indef pn] of [pron] really [verb] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 .
  Next page