Example sentences of "they no [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As late as yesterday the Home Office told them no decision 's been made on its future .
2 Despite the exhortations of the British , they were very often reluctant to carry out police duties which brought them no profit .
3 They shared with Foxton the misfortune of coming into existence at the beginning of the motor car era , and whatever miscalculations may have been made in the construction , there was for all of them no way of gaining the large amounts of traffic that alone would have made them profitable .
4 And in the pursuit he came up to King Yucef , and smote him three times : but the King escaped from under the sword , for the horse of the Cid passed on in his course , and when he turned , the King being on a fleet horse , was far off , so that he might not be overtaken ; and he got into a Castle called Guyera , for so far did the Christians pursue them , smiting and slaying , and giving them no respite , so that hardly fifteen thousand escaped of fifty that they were .
5 And King Bucar and the other Kings were so greatly dismayed that they never checked the reins till they had ridden into the sea ; and the company of the Cid rode after them , smiting and slaying and giving them no respite ; and they smote down so many that it was marvellous , for the Moors did not turn their heads to defend themselves .
6 Fluff continued to look after Titch , and even when she grew and became Big Titch , she never forgot her first friend , and they shared a basket , though she persecuted everyone else — feline and human — giving them no peace until she fell asleep , having worn out herself and everyone else .
7 Gives them no peace . "
8 Sadly , mass closures and redundancies have become commonplace , it 's no longer hitting the headlines , just a few small columns in the paper , so I ask you delegates , go back to your branches , raise the issue not just about coal but about all unemployment , chase up the media , write to your M P , especially the Tories , support the rallies and maybe a petition from this conference could be organized , but I say raise hell , give them no peace , one job loss is one too many and we ai n't gon na accept redundancy in any of our sections without a bloody good fight .
9 reckon you could do them no problem ?
10 Yeah because he said as soon as they see arrears he said they insist that it 's paid up and they insist that you have like three months pay them no problem he said
11 But Leicester 's win over Sunderland did them no favours , nor did sharing the points after Allen put Millwall ahead after 11 minutes .
12 Unfortunately , some of their riders then did them no favours whatsoever by steering for the rail and getting them penned in the pack .
13 Yeah , do n't do them no favours , if they say , come in Sunday , so I said that really !
14 The Palmyra authorities gave them no assistance .
15 Mr McCloy had left them no address .
16 But since then things have changed , and if they are prepared to go to a little trouble and expense they can now acquire a cat that will almost certainly give them no problems .
17 If the Senate will not agree to his design for a new Rome , then he will burn down the present one and give them no choice .
18 However , Laura 's appetite for life had left them no choice but to go ahead with a second major transplant .
19 Incomes policies aim to persuade workers to accept lower money wage increases ; deflation aims to weaken their bargaining position , and so offer them no choice .
20 As one of them wrote in retrospect : " The … taxpayer could owe them no grudge : they were unpaid .
21 We bore them no malice .
22 Those , mainly Conservative councils , that were spending below the standard spending levels were tempted to spend more and gain more grant ; those that were spending so much that government was giving them no grant could suffer no more penalties ; and all kinds of ingenious methods were used to avoid the penalties through creative accounting .
23 You owe them no loyalty … you owe my country no enmity .
24 The spectacular charge of the Light Blue Brigade from stakeboat to finish line con founded the bookies and the Tideway pundits who gave them no chance against Barcelona gold medallist Matthew Pinsent and his crew .
25 The distress of leaving them no doubt contributed to the ‘ sudden & severe indisposition of Mrs Gould … which inducing the utmost fears for her safety , rendered it very doubtful up to the last moment whether they would be able to go or not … ’
26 Five years ' rigorous service with them no doubt accounted in part for his splendid physique .
27 The most important thing for any parent who suspects that the father or mother of their child will try to take them , is to make sure they give them no opportunity .
28 At the beginning of the campaign the Secretary of State approved the application by Forresterhill Royal Infirmary in Aberdeen to become a trust ; the Tories ' revival in and around Aberdeen suggests this did them no damage at all .
29 Do them no hurt ’ .
30 What , I ca n't see them thirty three I have you leave them milk tubs there cos I 've had enough of them no leave it .
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