Example sentences of "no [indef pn] [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 2 | No one would have been out . |
| 3 | Her garments were so large and flowing that a man could have pleasured her while she was waiting at a bus-stop and no one would have been any the wiser . |
| 4 | Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 5 | No one could have been better suited for the role , nor taken to it with more enthusiasm . |
| 6 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 7 | Yet no one could have been more English in sympathy than Joyce as an undergraduate . |
| 8 | No one could have been more attentive than Mrs Gaskell to that interior ; one feels that she writes with a precise remembered image in her mind . |
| 9 | No one could have been more sympathetic to the detail of the poor man 's need , or more capable of vicarious imagination . |
| 10 | However she did seem to get better , and no one could have been happier than my master , when he saw her sitting up in bed for the first time , and beginning to take an interest in the people and things around her . |
| 11 | Buchan was living at Elsfield Manor near Oxford and invited me to come and see him : no one could have been more helpful and encouraging . |