Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [pron] was no " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flanker underwent a series of tests at Cardiff Royal Infirmary which showed there was no cartilage damage to the knee which has twice ‘ locked ’ during training and again while swimming . |
| 2 | But in her heart she knew there was no way in the world she would ever take up this incredible offer , which had been prompted by motives she could not even begin to fathom . |
| 3 | No wonder the Accademia has been rearranged in anticipation of a siege ; although on the bleak day I went there was no need to queue . |
| 4 | When I got my hands under the protruding portion I realized there was no point in heaving . |
| 5 | They also put a closing date on the offer which meant there was no time to try again . |
| 6 | Though not sure whether he wanted to be a painter or a writer he knew he was no Haydon , the fashionable golden boy of the day , the ‘ angry young man of romantic art . ’ |
| 7 | Of course he knew there was no possibility of this , now or when he returned home , for when you were married you never could be alone . |
| 8 | In the uproar which followed it was no help at all that the other teachers signed a statement that the girl had been continually insolent and had provoked the teacher beyond reasonable self-control . |