Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] none [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Walker also found that none of the 11 pronouns resolved correctly by the original BFP but not by Hobbs were made to fail when the alteration was made .
2 Clare had not wanted to leave Josh ( who would be three in December ) with a babysitter , but she found that none of the local nursery schools , public or private , had an available slot .
3 When he realised that none of his children was interested in farming as a career , he had moved the family to Brisbane and had encouraged Belinda in her ambition to become a nurse .
4 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 .
5 When he knew of his wife 's pregnancy Ernest requested that none of their names should go into the ballot until after the baby 's birth .
6 But careful studies in the 1960S revealed that none of these explanations will do .
7 Finally , the village case study revealed that none of the village practitioners were in favour of promoting the LGS message .
8 Mr Kerr added that none of the companies that had received the irregular payments had been required to repay money .
9 It should be , however , noted that none of the complex anti-avoidance provisions that protect that boundary have been repealed : others have , in fact , been added since 1988 .
10 It should have been a warning to me when I noticed that none of the other foreigners was going anywhere near the wicker-basket toboggans , each with two dapper attendants .
11 Frankie picked up the empty kettle and went to refill it but I noticed that none of the onlookers tried to wring his neck while he had the kettle in his hands .
12 It happened that none of them were , last week .
13 They stated that none of the background reports or assessments had been carried out , and stressed that these are fundamentally necessary in order to determine what is in the children 's best interests .
14 Roadblocks were set up throughout Lima , and an estimated 15,000 people were reportedly arrested for questioning , although the Interior Minister Augustín Mantilla confirmed that none of these were suspected of direct involvement in the attack .
15 Raoul Cédras , who claimed that none of the group was soldiers .
16 They went out from us but they did not really belong to us , for if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us but their going showed that none of them belong to us .
17 The elegant studies undertaken by Bissell et al showed that none of the individual major matrix proteins used as a culture substratum would maintain hepatocyte function as effectively as the complete EHS gel complex .
18 In 1974 , he decided that none of the developmental systems being studied really gave him what he needed for a study of development .
19 Rostov saw that none of the leaves which had fallen were withered or had changed colour , and the ground below every tree was covered by a soft carpet which was perhaps a metre thick .
20 Though the benches at the lower trestles were filling up quickly , Isabel saw that none of the nobles had as yet put in an appearance .
21 However , district councillors felt that none of the objections justified any changes to the proposed order and agreed to go ahead with the scheme .
22 He stressed that none of the secret information about health issues or spending plans were kept in the safe .
23 If he knew that none of the call charges on his bill were his , it proved just how often Gina phoned her friends , in spite of any pretences she might make .
24 Yet I knew that none of these , nor all of them , made her life complete .
25 In Brown the Supreme Court argued about which scheme of justice was presupposed by the structure of the Constitution , about the place of the equal protection clause in that scheme , about the true impact of that clause on the legal power of Kansas to legislate a school system , even though each justice knew that none of this was settled by convention .
26 He thought that none of those he had spoken to could have told him anything of the killing .
27 But that was many years ago when they were still juveniles and one day she disappeared and none of the eagles there has since had the full power of a Callanish eagle .
28 There were seven people in our dormitory and I think five were awake ; we all heard the mysterious sounds without any doubt but it appeared that none of the inhabitants of the other dormitories heard anything at all .
29 But Benskins said that none of these things was important . ’
30 Dr Raymond Hintz head of paediatric endocrinology at Stanford University , for instance , said that none of the adults in his studies became diabetic .
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