Example sentences of "none [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of it brought any response from him . |
| 2 | None of it spilled as Bonanza removed the cigar from his soft lips . |
| 3 | He tried to pretend that none of it mattered , could half convince himself . |
| 4 | ‘ None of it mattered in the least . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The laughter , the irritation , of the rest of the team who were unloading while he wasted time — none of it mattered . |
| 7 | None of it hung together . |
| 8 | None of it goes on salaries or administration because all of that is covered by sponsorship or by the interest on banked money . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | None of it had been intended . |
| 11 | If he had , she could have persuaded herself that none of it had been her fault — that he 'd physically forced her into making love . |
| 12 | The loss of her family , the futile years of servitude , even Edmund 's death — none of it had hurt like this . |
| 13 | Spending his five shillings had given him great satisfaction , particularly as none of it had been wasted . |
| 14 | Since she was sixteen she had experienced life , and none of it had been good , except that she had given birth to a daughter and also that she had found out what love was , but had experienced the painful futility of it . |
| 15 | None of it made any sense . |
| 16 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 17 | The moon , the mountains , the man — himself — standing there in the darkness : none of it made sense to him . |
| 18 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 19 | None of it made sense . |
| 20 | The snow was driving down now but even through that whirling vortex of frozen city detritus , none of it seemed to be making any impression on those glistening black pavements or the tarmac . |
| 21 | He was pumped full of sedation , but none of it seemed to work and Gilbert had decided against more in case he died . |
| 22 | None of it seemed remotely realistic or important any longer . |
| 23 | He was all of these things , but somehow none of it seemed to matter . |
| 24 | None of it registered , because she was fighting tears that were perilously near . |
| 25 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 26 | In the event , none of it happened . |
| 27 | None of it held the magic of her communication with Friend ; even here , jacked into the shadows , she ached for him but reason told her she would n't find him , long before she stopped looking . |
| 28 | ‘ And none of it gave you the right to lie to me . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm trying to say that none of it means anything to me . |
| 30 | None of it removed the nagging misery from her mind , the horror at the thought of Eleanor Thorne , sweet-natured as she was , being consigned to a mental hospital for geriatrics , to a public ward in a public bed , her possessions named with white tapes , her false teeth removed , her talk and actions , perhaps even her death , made common property . |