Example sentences of "had no sooner [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thoughts of butchers ' knives and bloodied axes galvanized the boy into frantic action , but he had no sooner broken into a sprint along the alley than the sound of his own footsteps stopped him in his tracks . |
| 2 | The useless question had no sooner formed in her mind when Rainald moved . |
| 3 | Perhaps the mightiest indoor rally ever held in Britain , Mosley had no sooner begun to speak than it became clear that organised Red gangs , each hundreds strong , were occupying positions in every part of the huge arena … with the sole intention of preventing the speech being heard . |
| 4 | They had no sooner done so , than the front door of the house burst open and a flood of blanket wrapped kids began to pour out . |
| 5 | The war had no sooner ended than a Mass Observation report Puzzled People ( 1947 ) described how ‘ the explosion or disintegration of orthodox beliefs has left a vacuum ’ , and as early as 1950 the ‘ quest for a post-war purpose ’ was being anxiously scrutinised in a study of young people 's lives . |
| 6 | One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing . |
| 7 | The thought had no sooner passed through his mind than the decision was taken . |
| 8 | Chant had no sooner focused upon it than it leapt towards his face . |
| 9 | She broke her shoulder as a human cannonball on Noel Edmonds ' ill-fated ‘ Late , Late Breakfast Show ’ , and she had no sooner recovered from that when a car accident delayed the venture for another two years ! |
| 10 | ‘ I can carry on here with Helen 's assistance — that is , if I 'm not called away , ’ Joanna said , but she had no sooner spoken than the telephone rang . |
| 11 | Jason Riddington had no sooner arrived to play the ward 's dark-haired dashing young doctor when drama student Claire Laurie arrived to play an extra . |
| 12 | " The Archbishop the next day travelling to Rochester , told his story to some of his familiars and had scarce concluded it when he was siezed with a sudden shivering and sickness , that he could scarce get to the village of Halling , a place of the Bishop of Rochester , where he had no sooner arrived by going to bed that night he died of a fit of collick " . |
| 13 | We had no sooner got out of the supermarket 's doors than the wee imp said he was tired and I must carry him to the car . |