Example sentences of "up no " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 2 | Things that take up no more space than a cigarette packet can now have vast amounts of data in them . |
| 3 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 4 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 5 | ‘ He did n't like none of it , so he sort of copped out , gave up eating one fine day , till he could n't stand up no more , could n't do what he was told on the airfield . |
| 6 | Against his magnetic forces , my own ‘ evil ’ eye , which had anyhow long since started to abandon me , could put up no resistance . |
| 7 | In the three years after his retirement , Britain chalked up no fewer than four prime ministers until Earl Grey managed to fill his shoes . |
| 8 | The fare was 10/ — ( 50p ) , and then there was lunch , often taken at one of the new mass-market eating-places , such as the Quality Inns , which had sprung up no doubt to satisfy the American G.I.s ' taste in food : ‘ Aunt Mary 's Home-made Apple Pie ’ was constantly on the menu . |
| 9 | The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’ |
| 10 | He rattled up no less than 46 league goals ( an all-time club record which seems to be invincible ) , including six in succession in the 7–2 defeat of Exeter on 4 October . |
| 11 | It seems necessary to conclude that in his view the words set up no trust . |
| 12 | They were both Londoners so this cheered me up no end , and we were soon making our way to the Mess for supper and then up to the office for me to meet some of the others . |
| 13 | Anyone who earns below the lower earnings limit does not pay national insurance contributions , and builds up no record within the national insurance system . |
| 14 | It will not say how many subscribers it has — only that it expects to sign up no more than a couple of dozen by the autumn . |
| 15 | An examination of the engine-room turned up no signs of protrusions , angle-beams or sharp metallic corners that could have caused the injury . |
| 16 | Routine thinking throws up no ideas about how to work on or round or against a seemingly impossible situation — which reaffirms powerlessness . |
| 17 | But he put up no defence ; he simply raised his hands and laid them lightly on Gentle 's shoulders . |
| 18 | Tsar after tsar floated notions of at least ameliorating the virtual slavery of the peasantry : Nicholas set up no less than nine secret committees to consider the issue . |
| 19 | Whatever its precise terms an exclusion clause designed to operate on a national basis can not be justly applied to a party active in only one part of the country and putting up no candidates elsewhere . |
| 20 | The lessee in a lease — the defendant so covenanted in this case — covenants in effect that he or his assignee will perform the covenants and observe the conditions contained in it ; and when , as in the present instance , the defendant sets up no performance by himself of the covenants sued on , his defence must be either that his assignee has performed them or that his assignee is in some way as between himself and the lessor absolved from performance . |
| 21 | Pempie is terrifically keen on auspicious signs , and she cheered up no end the day after the exterminator , because she drew a winning ticket in the village raffle . |
| 22 | It 's cheered me up no end to be reminded that I do have work and a brain and something to do when I 'm allowed up again . ’ |
| 23 | By 1988 , married couples with children made up no more than 26 per cent of all households in Britain . |
| 24 | HMS Impregnable 's position was desperate , for if she broke up no one would survive in the conditions . |
| 25 | Although his instincts could pick up no sense of immediate threat in these rooms , he still felt far from at ease . |
| 26 | Water of Leith Clean Up No replies have been received from the Scouts or Guides . |
| 27 | Six foot seven inches of nicest , brightest man on radio , cheers me up no end . |
| 28 | Water of Leith Clean Up No replies have been received from the Scouts or Guides . |
| 29 | And Yet could put up no more resistance than William . |
| 30 | Each of the hunt masters had signed their portion of the map , and each hunt had sent a brush — even those that had broken up no fox while she was in their country . |