Example sentences of "up [prep] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never intended that his shares should be given up for no payment . |
| 2 | From seeming to be a parable or a satire , it ends up as no more than a glimpse of the stunted mentality of a twosome . |
| 3 | When he had finished the hearings quickly wound up with no incisive questioning of the last three witnesses , Shultz , Weinberger and Meese , although their tales would have been worth hearing ; the committees , after all , had contracted to finish by early August , whether or not the full story had been told . |
| 4 | She was overweight ; she ate chocolates and sweets ; she smoked and drank ; they lived five flights up with no lift . … |
| 5 | Answer — not if they end up with no males . |
| 6 | To his great credit he comes up with no easy answers , but nor does he give in to glib despair . |
| 7 | The reason they have this versatility is that they are able to join up with no fewer than four other atoms at a time , to form chains or networks . |
| 8 | Mr Gillis , the Butcher , was a man to be treated very carefully because he put up with no nonsense , had a vicious temper and he bore grudges . |
| 9 | Like someone drowning , Sarah saw her past life in detail ; the filthy room in which she 'd grown up with no privacy and no sanitation , the painful joints on Ma 's fingers from too much sewing , Paddy 's brawls , and the incessant noise and smell of Turnmill Street . |
| 10 | Make sure that you have the strip white side or you will finish up with no correction and a white covered ball point pen . |
| 11 | Maybe if I was really hard up with no career or opportunities in life I might feel differently . |
| 12 | We once set a case involving a highly seasonal business which ended up with no cash , a big overdraft , lots of creditors and no hope of any more revenue for at least six months : those students who did n't recognize that some pretty drastic immediate action was required ( surprisingly , there were several ) could n't reasonably expect any marks ! |
| 13 | It could be stolen , and you could end up with no car and no money . |
| 14 | The UN felt swamped by the quality and quantity of NATO staff work — NATO planners turned up with no fewer than five bound volumes — in the initial stages of the joint operation that was set up to keep the peace in Bosnia should the Bosnian Serbs join the Croats and Muslims in accepting the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 15 | Paradoxically , to ‘ protect ’ them might mean that they ended up with no jobs at all . |
| 16 | After six weeks , UN-supervised peace talks between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels , held in Côte d'Ivoire , broke up with no agreement . |
| 17 | we landed up with no idea of the description , on one of the pantomime performances because he would n't arrange the date and then |
| 18 | Our hospital organisation has grown up with no plan , with no system ; it is unevenly distributed over the country and indeed it is one of the tragedies of the situation that very often the best hospital facilities are available where they are least needed . |
| 19 | In fact , she sounded particularly cheerful ; it was the first morning she had woken up with no trace of sickness , and was cheered at the thought of entering the ‘ blooming ’ phase of pregnancy . |
| 20 | There was a roadblock set up with no less than three machine-guns . |
| 21 | The situation for the fabliau , the clerk 's desire for the wife , and her vulnerability with her husband away , is rapidly set up with no superfluous details or distractions . |
| 22 | Most clients who require the sale and purchase to run side by side , will be worried about ending up with no house at all , or two houses . |
| 23 | All they are proposing is , we 're , well , all they 're doing is opposing , we oppose this , we oppose this , we oppose this , they 're coming up with no information , that the people of Lincolnshire can judge them on . |
| 24 | But an Air Force investigation into the accident comes up with no clear cause for the crash . |
| 25 | Cos we 'll end up with no mortgage , we 'll get I do n't , I do n't know , if I , I must admit I rather fancy the erm , the old er the erm , a re-employed pensioner , I do n't know . |
| 26 | Yeah , but this has n't it sho , it , first put it up with no glass , so they put the glass in then it looked like a mirror |
| 27 | I remember thinking that use of rhyming slang was going to help clear matters up in no time . |
| 28 | All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll be snapped up in no time . ’ |
| 30 | I picked it up in no time , and I 'm a dummy . ’ |