Example sentences of "no [noun] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that elicited no response she opened it and peeped in . |
| 2 | Despite saying he had no money they cracked his ribs … kicked his leg … stabbed him with a fork … and slashed at his face with a modelling knife . |
| 3 | Fortunately she returned to the clinic the following day and having no milk they showed her how to make a supplementary feed but it was too late and the baby died . |
| 4 | To No units they called them . |
| 5 | ‘ No wonder you had me fooled , ’ he murmured . |
| 6 | No wonder he had his work cut out on the bench . |
| 7 | No wonder he qualified his optimism about Henley by speaking of a 300-strong membership because the Huntercombe club was struggling terribly and in fact went into liquidation in 1908 . |
| 8 | He goes on to make the point that the Scots possessed advanced tastes and understanding in literature , with a Latin poetry that ‘ would have done honour to any nation ’ , but then ponders aloud — no wonder he offended them so — why ‘ men thus ingenious and inquisitive were content to live in total ignorance of the trades by which human wants are supplied , and to supply them by the grossest means . |
| 9 | Oh no wonder he wanted you to set off early . |
| 10 | No wonder he wanted you to set off early , he did n't know where he was going . |
| 11 | I did n't dress it up ; no wonder she took it as life letting her down once more . |
| 12 | No wonder she made it clear to Shelley that she was wasting her time . |
| 13 | Yeah , I know One pair of those tights were seven ninety nine , it 's no wonder I thought they were nice when I looked at them . |
| 14 | His short-lived journalistic career encompassed the Highland News and then the Cumbernauld News , but after making no headway he swapped it for being a press officer with the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive . |
| 15 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 16 | When the honourable gentleman said I gave no information I said I intended to talk about jobs and in this country we believe , we believe that er there are three things very important a at this forthcoming summit . |
| 17 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 18 | I have no idea what caused it . |
| 19 | The thirty three year old had no idea what hit him or why . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've no idea who killed him . |
| 21 | He had rented the flat through an agency and had no idea who owned it , only that he was male and single and working abroad for a year . |
| 22 | I had no idea he wanted me to marry him when he has his head shaved . ’ |
| 23 | I had no idea you held me in such high regard . ’ |
| 24 | No idea I knew who that Jimmy James . |
| 25 | One of the members [ almost certainly Francis Maginn ] intended to urge the adoption of the word " deaf " only at the Congress , but seeing that it would only cause much loss of time to no purpose he allowed his motion to drop for the present . |
| 26 | That 's that 's no problem I thought it was just erm a thought for yourself maybe you could give out . |
| 27 | Oh I sh I suppose they might have been but where they were made I , cos I mean you get like they used to b they used to deal in all shoes , no doubt they got them from them . |
| 28 | No doubt they offered him two cups of coffee , extra sugar , a slug of cognac ? |
| 29 | Although it was a typical crunching Wimbledon performance , there can be no doubt they deserved it . |
| 30 | No doubt they chose their paper partly with that bias in mind . |