Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] no [noun] [prep] he " in BNC.

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No Sentence
1 I 'm no good to him , no use .
2 He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again .
3 ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table .
4 ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table .
5 She was no mother to him because she 'd taken his real mother 's place .
6 Somehow the chap , who had plainly gone over the top , he could understand that , must be convinced they were no threat to him .
7 They were no threat to him ; they were far away , and he was in tree-shade , and had nothing bright about him to catch the light .
8 If Strandli is not includeed in Norway 's WC-squad it 's no diasaster for him .
9 It is no offence for him to engage in other sexual acts with her , unless these are otherwise unlawful , although it is an offence for him to commit an act of buggery or gross indecency with a male patient who is mentally disordered .
10 It is no matter to him that he loses his hold over his children and his erstwhile fiancée .
11 If he can not balance and control his movements , it is no use for him to try to practise ‘ walking ’ with the help of therapists or nurses .
12 It was no shock to him that he should be marketed in his turn .
13 By contrast Mrs Cowan , s son-in-law said that it was no trouble to him to visit his mother-in-law every day and help take care of her , but that he would ideally prefer her to be in residential care because there she would have constant care and companionship , which was what she really needed .
14 This is what Gustave told me : that it was no sadness for him to get rid of the paperweight , because he had another which did the work just as efficiently .
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