Example sentences of "that no [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time now he had not been aware of being followed , and he knew , too , that no one had searched his house in his absence . |
| 2 | The president waited before going on , to confirm that no one had missed the report . |
| 3 | When the guard was told that no one had moved from their seats he became very worried because he said he had to make out a report to British Rail as to the cause of the delay and he then said , ‘ I 'll have to put it down to person or persons unknown ’ . |
| 4 | I could not decide if the fact that no one had discovered my secret was actually the result of my elaborate efforts or just the boys ' lack of attention . |
| 5 | He was just completing the operation , relieved that no one had commented on his obvious injury , when Mary Ann said : |
| 6 | After a while it seemed to me amusing that such preparations as a wedding involve should surround the plain , pale husk that was me and that no one had commented on this incongruity . |
| 7 | He checked the bathroom and kitchen and only then stood up to look through the windows to be certain that no one had made a run for the trees . |
| 8 | He froze for a second , praying that no one had heard . |
| 9 | Equally , names that no one had heard of emerged as important groupings . |
| 10 | Fifty miles north , Sarah Morgan had just finished serving a lunch that no one had done more than pick at . |
| 11 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 12 | ‘ SHe ca n't just have gone ! ’ she shouted in a deep , masculine voice , in response to her officers , discovery that no one had seen Crevecoeur since late afternoon , and certainly not in the act of leaving the building . |
| 13 | And recollect , too , that no one had seen him , no one then knew he had ever left the enclave . |
| 14 | After cycling to various different parts of the village pretending to look for him , therefore , I returned and told the Germans that no one had seen my father ; he was probably out in the country on his bicycle but I had no idea where . |
| 15 | It was as if a great machine had been left running so long that no one had noticed , or cared , that it was running down . |
| 16 | Lewis 's eyebrows shot up involuntarily , but he trusted that no one had noticed . |
| 17 | A man at the back of the crowd said , ‘ I was sitting in the dome car lounge when Xanthe came through , and I can tell you that no one had come the other way . |
| 18 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I 'd better find the boats for Venice , ’ she sighed , resigned to the fact that no one had come to meet her . |
| 20 | But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance . |
| 21 | He peered into the binnacle as though checking that no one had stolen the compass . |
| 22 | It was the perfect blend of The War of the Roses and an Agatha Christie novel ; the only hitch was that no one had spoken to the Baroness . |
| 23 | Lydia had an impression when Elizabeth opened the door that no one had spoken in that house for some time . |
| 24 | Admirable as such schemes seemed from St Petersburg , they looked very different on the ground : it was reported from one ‘ city ’ designated an administrative hub that no one had entered or left it for three months . |
| 25 | Mr Heslop said that , in fact , Mr Venables and his company , Edennote , had put their names to documents specifically stating that no one had entered into service agreements which were not terminable within 12 months . |
| 26 | But on reflection , she had realized that no one had taken the friendship with the USSR wholly seriously , and now the realization of how much worry it must have caused the Führer and ‘ the greatness of his diplomacy ’ made her feel ‘ quite small ’ . |
| 27 | I sometimes wonder if the reason I struggled with university mathematics was that no one had taken the trouble to express the mysteries of analysis in comic strip form . |