Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was no [pron] in " in BNC.

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1 I saw this block one sunny August afternoon and although there was no one in sight , there was a murmur of music and children 's voices through windows .
2 ‘ I locked the lecture-room , came downstairs and checked that there was no one in the ground-floor rooms , then locked up the building . ’
3 Our first erm priority was to establish that there was no one in that room .
4 With as much dignity as she could muster Sophie stood up , and as he came from behind his desk to open the door she saw thankfully that there was no one in the surgery .
5 The house was silent and there was no one in it , and yet all the furniture was still in place .
6 But there was no written record of his life or death , or of the reasons for his resistance ; and there was no one in the community who still remembered him .
7 She was unmarried , and there was no one in prospect as far as I know .
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