Example sentences of "none [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A record shows , 'The inhabitants of the place said we never saw it in this fashion before ; we were left to wander and none cared for our souls ; but now a brighter day has dawned for us . ’
2 As one writer put it , all trains went to Chicago and none passed through .
3 All agreed he should transfer his money but none agreed on which company would be best to look after his future pension needs .
4 None arose .
5 None admitted intravenous drug abuse , nor had received antiviral or immunosuppressive treatment .
6 For though some historians doubt whether such a loose conglomeration of territories , each with different traditions and customs , cobbled together by " an unholy combination of princely greed and genealogical accident " and just as likely to fall apart again , can properly be called an empire , none doubts the accuracy of the term Angevin .
7 Other tests of the same general type may be proposed , but none bring anything radically new to the picture .
8 If any memorials were erected at their burials , as at Crosthwaite , none remain today .
9 And although none of the critics called him a genius for playing in them , none argued about the extent of his talent either .
10 Manna ( 16:31 ) : various natural phenomena have been identified with the description given here , but none fits exactly .
11 New records had been set with almost every triumph Chapman had ever engineered , but none equalled those of Arsenal 's 1931 Championship .
12 All owned everything , none owned anything ; and the experiment failed .
13 Of seven highly-detailed scale aircraft models : Gotha Go.IV , Sopwith Pup , Nieuport N. 17 , Sopwith Snipe etc , none realised the catalogue estimated prices .
14 There were lots of boyfriends but none became lovers .
15 Of the 216 patients discharged in 1989–90 , none became vagrants during the first year of follow up ( J Leff et al , unpublished study ) .
16 It was a breezy afternoon at the Crystal Palace , if memory serves and our boys recruited the aid of the elements in a first half in which no quarter was asked and none given . ’
17 So lavish there , she 'd none to spare for me ?
18 Unfortunately , they had none to spare .
19 We never starved and we were healthy kids but we did n't get any pocket money , there was none to spare .
20 That is why — ’ raising her head to give him a grateful look ‘ — I had none to spare for a meal at this place . ’
21 None to spare .
22 While Robert Henri 's ‘ Skipper Mick ’ was a radiant , tightly painted and very appealing late portrait ( lot 56 est. $80–120,000 ) , none expected the $315,000 ( £196,875 ) Henri portrait record paid by dealer John Surovek .
23 Finally , if asked to do so , tie all the scripts together so that none goes astray .
24 The area cost adjustment which the er government takes out of the total S S A's of some two hundred million has gone to the south-east , I hope none goes to Westminster , and that has cost us one point three million .
25 Few were even prepared to try to mediate , none to risk anything for the king and the Despensers .
26 So what has befallen to make this of none account ?
27 Only three batsmen got past twenty and none got to thirty , and a total of 137 was clearly a waste of everyone 's time .
28 Not only were nearly three-fifths of the people here unable to scrape together sufficient personal property to reach the tax threshold of £2 , but none got the alternative of 20s. wages in the year , as did many in the Midland and southern counties who were in the same position .
29 None steamed .
30 If none wins outright on first preferences , the bottom name drops out , and his backers ' second preferences go to their recipients ; then , if need be , the next-bottom drops out ; and so on , till somebody gets over 50% .
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