Example sentences of "[pron] be no [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am no expert on pickups but I do n't want to get a replacement if I can fix the existing one . |
| 2 | " No , I ca n't do that , but I am no threat to you . " |
| 3 | I am no fan of laboured expositions and the pat wisdoms dispensed by many academic writers on this subject . |
| 4 | ‘ I am no fan of my muscles , ’ she bleated to a German magazine . |
| 5 | I am no fan of Blind Date it is too contrived . |
| 6 | Yet underneath it all he suggests there was in Coward a gregarious solitude ( ‘ I am no good at love , ’ he poignantly records ) that slightly undercuts the show 's thesis that he carried a lifelong torch for Ms Lawrence . |
| 7 | I am no good at marriage ’ , they would have deprived themselves , their subsequent partners and possibly their children and other relatives of much happiness in the future . |
| 8 | ‘ Unless everything is all right at home I am no good in all the other areas of my life . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps I have been over enthusiastic about this project , but there was something about the schools I visited , and I am no stranger to African primary schools , which seemed to me to provide a recipe for steady progress . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm no expert on drugs , senator , ‘ I said . |
| 11 | Yes I would n't like to say too much about this you know I 'm I 'm only a farmer I 'm no expert on these thi you know just from things I feel really erm . |
| 12 | And really the slate industry I think probably hinges on quality being maintained you know I mean li like I said I do n't want to go in you know I 'm no expert on this sort of thing but erm A deep sense of of injustice I think is that and , oh my God if if we let him start making us just you know like robots produce more and more slate and laying off some of the older craftsmen and you know they do and David Price who knows and I mean th they put that and and then they the last fifteen years it was a it was a defunct slate quarry before you know and they I mean it 's not as i it 's not an easy thing to er work slate I 'm sure it 's d difficult and you have to know what you 're doing . |
| 13 | Look , I 'm no expert at that sort of thing . |
| 14 | And that fairly quickly , but erm , it 's it really producing plants in a a forced situation , which I do n't translate into others , and grow strongly elsewhere , and er , I 'm afraid I 'm I 'm no expert in this plan . |
| 15 | People have been known to say things they do n't mean when they 're angry — you of all people should know by now that I 'm no exception to that rule . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm no help to Ana really . |
| 17 | ‘ Whatever you say , of course , I 'm no judge of these things . |
| 18 | I 'm no judge of whether it suits either of us . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And if I do n't get the chance tomorrow — well , I 'm no speechmaker like Brian , but all the very best , Jack . ’ |
| 20 | I know I 'm no end of a brute , and roar like a bear when I lose my temper , but there 's no need to be quite so distressed by my presence . |
| 21 | I 'm no match for seventeen other people . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm no use to anyone in football and I had better get out , ’ he said . |
| 23 | But I 'm no use as a mother . |
| 24 | Remember I 'm no trollop to while away the hours for you . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm no good without you ) . |
| 26 | I 'm no good to him , no use . |
| 27 | I 'm no good at football , and I have n't had a steady job since last March , ’ he said glumly . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm no good at anything . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm no good at this . ’ |
| 30 | Instead of saying , ‘ I ca n't do that ’ , or ‘ I 'm no good at that ’ , they switched to ‘ I could have a go at that ’ , and then , ‘ well they did it , why should n't I ? ’ |