Example sentences of "no [noun] [pron] were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should this approach receive no response they were to form joint anti-Fascist committees at a lower level " despite the leadership " . |
| 2 | Sony had given no indication they were working on — or intended to work on any electronic stills camera . ’ |
| 3 | No wonder they were getting a raw deal . |
| 4 | ‘ No wonder they were giving me funny looks ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ No wonder you were determined to keep possession of it , ’ she remarked , nodding her head in thanks for the cup of black coffee he passed to her . |
| 6 | Well no wonder you were chucking bricks at him , I would have done an'all . |
| 7 | No wonder you were driving yourself mad . |
| 8 | ‘ No wonder you were doing such good business , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Negative evidence confirms the impression that educated Russians had no notion they were approaching a watershed . |
| 10 | Sails began splitting with the sound of gunfire , and with no spares they were sewn up in situ — an incredibly dangerous task in a full gale . |
| 11 | If there was no improvement they were given treatment B : 30 mg daily for week three and 20 mg daily for week four . |
| 12 | There must have been dozens of them in our back garden by the time I was seven , though my parents had no idea they were living next to a bird cemetery . |
| 13 | I 'd no idea you were listening . ’ |
| 14 | Simone 's eyes were sparkling , and Alyssia said frigidly , ‘ I had no idea you were known in this part of the world . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd no idea you were contemplating matrimony again , Penry . ’ |
| 16 | we 've got no proof they were labelled deliveries or |
| 17 | I have no problem You were shuffling . |
| 18 | ‘ We may be looking at a racial motive , but there is no doubt they were copying the other carjackings . ’ |
| 19 | But Europe 's governing body left them in no doubt they were wasting their time by replying : ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
| 20 | It may well be that his nocturnal anxieties began on hearing the nightly ministrations by which his father was nursed — to a young boy , eerie and mysterious , doubtless at times frenetic ; no doubt they were exacerbated after his death , as sorrow and loss impinged . |
| 21 | Apparently they feared the burning timbers more than the bullets , but no doubt they were feeling some reaction after more than four hours in action : four hours of dodging snipers ' bullets and bursting open doors that all too often concealed a rifleman who fired , while around the houses a grenade could be dropped from any window . |
| 22 | No doubt they were helped by the government 's needs for revenue in the period of the wars against Louis XIV , but neither this nor the nominal prohibition of textile imports from India in 1720 caused the Company or the Indian textile trade much trouble . |
| 23 | No doubt you were expecting to hear from me , and no doubt you are aware of what it is I want to talk about ? ’ |
| 24 | No doubt you were imagining what you take to be my imaginings about Gillian 's vestments : a sable swirl out of Boris Godounov , colours by Rimsky , light summer prints by the infant Rossini , gay accessories by Poulenc … |
| 25 | ‘ I wanted them to understand that there was no way they were going to get Kim , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Even if she did tell them the whereabouts of the Grimoire , there was no way they were going to spare her or Julie . |
| 27 | But there was no way they were going to drag that out of me . |
| 28 | They 're going for promotion and there was no way they were going to lose a 2-goal lead . |
| 29 | There was no way they were going to let this game go . |
| 30 | ‘ Michael 's a brilliant lyricist , he can talk about things that matter without it being obvious , so when we got together there was no way we were going to do a creamy , greasy duet . |