Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … I became fretful , & timorous , & a tell-tale — & the School-boys drove me from play , & were always tormenting me — & hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports . ’ |
| 2 | Or maybe they had no choice . |
| 3 | It was therefore decided to run a third train on December 5 , but this would clash with the start of our intensive Santa Special operations and so we had no choice but to operate the train from the Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway Station . ’ |
| 4 | That was the artificial cloud kicked up by an army , but no troops threatened the Major 's peaceful rest and so he saw no reason to make undue haste , especially as the roast chicken proved to be excellent . |
| 5 | It was impossible to hug and kiss her with those letters in the background ( all the more , since this was to be their first , and thus an unforgettable , kiss ) , and so he had no choice but to turn back with a bitter sense of capitulation . |
| 6 | Prohibition is only available to restrain illegal action and so it plays no part in correcting errors of law within jurisdiction , for which certiorari is the only remedy . |
| 7 | ‘ But the German system appears to have no place for the producer — it 's like a final , ridiculous culmination of the auteur theory , which insisted that movies are made by directors rather than producers — and so it has no room for that kind of creative argument . ’ |
| 8 | Unusually for me , I saw a few paintings and so on which I thought were lovely , but of course purchase is quite out of the question — and anyway we have no wall space left here ! |
| 9 | She just was n't his type , and anyway she 'd no intention of joining the seemingly endless queue of girls happy to be seen in his company . |
| 10 | Two of these are worthy of a wider audience and thus I make no apology for including them in this month 's Surgery ! |
| 11 | You might wish to help her but you would n't think of advising her ; and usually she needed no help , either . |
| 12 | ‘ And still I have no idea who it is we discuss . ’ |
| 13 | I mean they get into these jobs and really they 've no background of understanding of the exact |
| 14 | Print workers too were said to have improved in character : " a printing office was like a public house on a Monday when I was an apprentice , and now we have no drinking at all " . |
| 15 | Her husband was dead , her job had gone and now she had no home . |
| 16 | Robert Bossu they called him , Robert the Hunchback , and reputedly he made no objection to the title . |
| 17 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 18 | However hard I work and struggle for the future there are ever snares to catch me and sometimes I see no end to it and think myself doomed to pass my days in toil and nothing else . |
| 19 | We had no new monies during last year and consequently we have no growth . |
| 20 | A very nice lady at the town hall explained that there 's no appeal and consequently I have no vote . |
| 21 | If we do n't get divorced , marriages last longer and yet we have no idea how to deal with them . |
| 22 | Sam had a one-word vocabulary and yet he found no problem with making it perfectly clear whether he would prefer to be scratched under his chin , behind the ears , or on his tummy . |
| 23 | ‘ I have discovered something , ’ he said slowly , ‘ and yet it sheds no light . ’ |
| 24 | But erm I went to see Liz the night before she got married and actually she had no make-up on right but she looked prettier without it , like Catherine |
| 25 | He had no hat and certainly he had no handkerchief , but the bag in which the Semtex was would have done , or the square scarf which , under the brown hairy suit , was still knotted round the bear 's neck . |
| 26 | Applied here the plaintiffs had no right to stay one day beyond their allowed period , and therefore they had no right to a hearing . |
| 27 | I feel it is important that you , your readers and the tennis public should know that I no longer take part in any decision making relating to the business of the company or the centre and therefore I take no responsibility , for either the success or failure of Junior Tennis Centre Ltd nor Sutton Junior Tennis Centre . |
| 28 | It simply does n't exist , and significantly he produces no evidence . |
| 29 | The captain remonstrated , but eventually he had no option but to give it to her . |
| 30 | But obviously they cut no ice with a Conservative government that was busy dismantling wartime controls and reviving the notion of ‘ choice ’ in people 's everyday lives . |