Example sentences of "had no [noun sg] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on receiving no reply , he seemed hellbent on goading her , and she found she had no chance to be passive , meek and mild , when he went on to taunt , ‘ You 're paid well , I 'll grant , but even so … ’ his eyes flicked over her good quality suit which , while not drawing attention to her figure , had been costly ‘ … |
| 2 | ‘ We had no call to be in touch with Uzum Hasan after that . |
| 3 | They therefore had no wish to be restricted by British manoeuvring for postwar influence , and were unsympathetic to British demands for international control . |
| 4 | Tolkien always had close family ties in which Lewis had no wish to be involved . |
| 5 | He stood up to indicate thai the conversation was at an end and that he had no wish to be involved as a partner in such blasphemous and heretical talk . |
| 6 | Zambia had no wish to be found out cold by someone who might discover what SHe was . |
| 7 | Mr Smith started to give him new clothes but soon realized that William had no wish to be clean , as on the next visit the new suit would be filthy . |
| 8 | He still loved Elizabeth deeply , as he had done ever since he was seventeen , but he had no wish to be the subject of Sarah 's adoration day after day . |
| 9 | Though she had certainly never thought herself superior to her fellow servants , Ruth had no wish to be too close . |
| 10 | She had no wish to be drawn even marginally into any of the other de Rochefort family contentions . |
| 11 | Lucy had no wish to be caught eavesdropping , so she walked into the room and hung the towels over the rail . |
| 12 | Amaranth had no wish to be caught napping in the lounge of the Grand Hotel ; how much better to return to ‘ Mon Repos ’ and put her feet up for an hour or so . |
| 13 | He had , after all , played a prominent part in destroying the Lloyd George coalition fourteen months before , and had no wish to be involved in another one . |
| 14 | She had no wish to be left stranded with the horrible Mr Jefferson nor with the oily Signor Silvio . |
| 15 | She had no wish to be told about her needs . |
| 16 | How sad he has been , he says ; he had no need to be , she replies . |
| 17 | Anna had no need to be besought , for she had done a quick sum on the back of her child benefit book , and had worked out that , if Flora could start at St Saviour 's in the summer term , she would have earned enough to put down at least £100 towards the first term 's fees . |
| 18 | Moreover , the Germans had no desire to be saddled with more of BAOR 's sector of the front : they had enough on their hands under-pinning the Dutch and Belgian corps , whose military worth they had good reasons to doubt in the late 1950s . |
| 19 | In other words Dannii had no desire to be packaged as Kylie Mark 2 . |
| 20 | They genuinely tried to become , to use a horrid word , acculturated with the white invaders , even if they had no desire to be assimilated . |
| 21 | He had no desire to be a kingmaker . |
| 22 | There were no secret gatherings , partly because there were hardly any students , and because the peasants and artisans , although very anti-Fascist , had no desire to be caught up in political activities . |
| 23 | She had no desire to be with Dana and Roman when they met Garry . |
| 24 | Mr Cedric Multhrop subsided into one of the comfortable armchairs in his lounge , then leapt up guiltily as though a mere hotel owner had no place to be sitting down in his guests ' domain . |
| 25 | As Senna raced towards the victory he needed in Spain on Sunday , James Hunt , a driver familiar with the pressures of a late challenge for the championship , was saying Senna had no right to be on the track at all . |
| 26 | They claimed that she was not yet sixteen and so could not marry and hence had no right to be here . |
| 27 | As a result evidence … clearly showed that the two Constables had been idling and gossiping together at a place where one of them had no right to be … [ and ] that the Acting Sergeant , on his round of inspection , met these two Constables together , failed to note in his book , as was required in the regulations , the place where and the time where he met them , and to see that the Constables then noted in their books the time and place of his visit … |
| 28 | She grew up believing that she had no right to be alive , let alone deserved any happiness . |
| 29 | It felt as though the tree he was sitting in and the green leaves all around him belonged to another world altogether and that he was a trespasser who had no right to be where he was . |
| 30 | No-one stared at Ellie as if she had no right to be there . |