Example sentences of "no [noun sg] [pers pn] could [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie had no idea he could be so alert to the slightest unfamiliar sound . |
| 2 | ‘ I had no idea you could be so damned cold-hearted , Doreen . ’ |
| 3 | People who do not suffer from tinnitus are usually astonished and say , wide-eyed , ‘ I had no idea it could be like that . ’ |
| 4 | No doubt he could be forgiven for an inadvertent omission , but women more than most know that life , like history , is made up of inadvertencies . |
| 5 | ‘ No doubt he could be replaced . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps not as brutal , although she had no doubt he could be if the situation warranted , but definitely arrogant , intimidating , ruthless . |
| 7 | There was no way he could be remembering that experience of running — of the joy and the pain and the total , ultimate effort — unless it had actually happened to him . |
| 8 | And there was no way he could be prevailed upon to release it without an embarrassing fracas in front of the judge ! |
| 9 | There had been a tremendous hash made of one contract by her predecessor , it was true , but that had all but been completed when it had landed on her desk , so there was no way she could be held to account for it . |