Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel this profoundly as I wander about the empty railway station , where I have no business of any kind . |
| 2 | Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ? |
| 3 | ‘ Even where we have no solution , as with the black rats , we must try to keep their numbers in check . |
| 4 | The harassing of those caught out by need where they had no settlement was the dark side of the eighteenth-century Poor Law with its associated evasive strategies such as hiring for less than a year , pulling down cottages on the wastes , apprenticing pauper children beyond the bounds and hustling unwilling couples into marriage to avoid the maintenance of a bastard . |
| 5 | People who come from the outside world inhabit the periphery , where they have no cattle and live an inferior life . |
| 6 | What it meant in human terms was that black UK citizens excluded from their own country ( Britain ) were and still are being forced to live in countries where they have no right to live or work . |
| 7 | UK businesses registrable for VAT in other member states , where they have no establishment , will need to appoint a tax representative in those countries , or consider registering there . |
| 8 | Countless children of the mist played happily in Whig and Tory nurseries where they presented no threat to the property or interest of heirs . |
| 9 | The villagers then , seeing they had no defence anywhere , rushed indoors and put up what pathetic barriers they could . |
| 10 | Probably much of his success as a teacher sprang from this , for the young greatly enjoyed his moments of iconoclasm , even when it was carried on to the cricket field where he had no knowledge of and certainly no respect for the laws of the game , as a current Member of Parliament may remember . |
| 11 | The question of who is an " occupant " is discussed in Paterson v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 37 , where a new manager who applied for a permanent transfer of an off sale licence was held not to be an " occupant " where he had no interest in the premises other than as an employee . |
| 12 | Kingdom on Rhodes , where he had no reason to be , where he had no cause to fear he would be recognized , far less remembered . |
| 13 | He did n't care about anyone ; he 'd turn Hepzibah out and live here himself , where he 'd no right to be … |
| 14 | Not Virgil , especially not the Aeneid , where he has no story worth telling , no sense of personality . |
| 15 | If he had chosen as his running-mate a northern Christian , he would have risked losing the majority-Muslim vote in the heavily populated north , where he has no power base . |
| 16 | It gave him a role in parts of the north where he held no land of his own . |
| 17 | It gave him a role in parts of the north where he held no land of his own . |
| 18 | After all , the stuff has to go somewhere : why not put it as far as possible from people , where it poses no threat to drinking water and little threat ( fisheries apart ) to food ? |
| 19 | A horse should be able to feel safe and secure in its own stable : it needs a ‘ safe-house ’ where it knows no harm will come to it . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , USL Pacific is acting as Chorus ' agent in the Far East where it has no operation of its own . |
| 21 | Against this , however , it has already identified some areas where it has no plans for expansion , including commercial fire risks in Germany and brokered motor vehicle insurance in Spain . |
| 22 | Although I had no idea then what species of bird it was , the picture was firmly fixed in my mind ; years later I instantly recognised it in my first ornithological guide , P. A. D. Hollom 's The Popular Handbook of British Birds . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes it is , ’ I said , although I had no idea what the old woman would say . |
| 24 | I pocketed it , although I had no idea of how it worked . |
| 25 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd always wanted a farm , although I had no experience of it at all . ’ |
| 27 | One woman described how she experienced an aggressive pattern : ‘ I found it very difficult to cope with women over me , especially if I thought that they were n't being fair — although I had no problems when dealing with men . |
| 28 | Certainly , you are not yet a man , although I 've no doubt that one day soon , you will make a fine young man . ’ |
| 29 | Although I 've no doubt you know better than we do what the opposition are |
| 30 | But up to your right , where the estuary flows into the sea , that 's Mr Swinton 's land and although I know no harm in him myself , they say — they say he does n't like trespassers , Miss Alexandra . |