Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] was no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet each cubicle had a door , although she noticed there was no bolt on the inside . |
| 2 | ‘ In most cases that we heard there was no real problem , but in some cases there was fire so we decided to have the recall as a purely precautionary move . ’ |
| 3 | The driver may be forthcoming that his boss said words to the effect that he knew there was no insurance but the vehicle was the only one available and the journey had to be undertaken . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister said that he had the resignation of his Cabinet in his pocket , but the King replied that he trusted there was no question of the Prime Minister 's resignation : the leaders of the three Parties must get together and come to some arrangement . |
| 5 | and I thought there was no good putting up with it just by not saying |
| 6 | I thought , if you knew you 'd been abandoned , it might make you feel insecure , and I felt there was no need for you to know that . ’ |
| 7 | If I found there was no coffee in the house I 'd shout and swear at her and I must have been an absolute pain to live with . |
| 8 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |
| 9 | ‘ Or if she did it was no further than the grounds . |
| 10 | If we found there was no basis in our opinion , we would scrub it . |
| 11 | ‘ If they said there was no danger , I would have to stand down from any further action on the matter . ’ |
| 12 | After a while , Corbett call ed a halt ; his horse was half-blown and he realised there was no sign of any pursuit . |
| 13 | It was my first baby and I was panicking and he said there was no need to panic ! |
| 14 | And he said there was no doubt they would suffer substantila hardship . |
| 15 | And he said there was no doubt they would suffer substantial hardship . |
| 16 | The committee said it had no reason to doubt Mr Gummer was out of pocket and it accepted there was no intent on his part to conceal the work . |
| 17 | Why , even Peggy herself had been one of his targets — until he realized there was no chance for him there . |
| 18 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 19 | ‘ Ironically , I was possibly playing my best football for Tottenham when I left the club , but I knew there was no way back . |
| 20 | But I knew there was no point . |
| 21 | It was against my will but I felt there was no use fighting it , because the social worker had many things against me , like my not going to see the baby , and my being in prison — there were many things against me . |
| 22 | She wanted to scream and shout , to deny what he had said , but she knew it was no use . |
| 23 | Alarmed , she tried to tell Poindexter about it ; but she knew there was no point in raising the matter with North . |
| 24 | But she knew there was no need to believe that . |
| 25 | But he knew there was no real temptation . |
| 26 | Asik simply wished he could live closer to the village but he knew there was no way his grandparents would survive the move , so he trundled on and tried dearly not to think about it . |
| 27 | ‘ At first I did n't bother to make a run , because I thought there was no point . |
| 28 | What happened with perishables because you said there was no power no electricity no fridges no freezers nothing . |
| 29 | Remarkably , Ukraine 's generally conservative parliament appeared inclined to support him , largely because it felt there was no alternative . |
| 30 | They were referred to the clinic by their doctors in Greece or the Middle East , and looked horrified when I said there was no lift and they had to walk down seventeen stairs to the basement . |