Example sentences of "i [vb past] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure before me bore no relation whatever to the Alec I remembered . |
| 2 | I wondered why the girl was clothed and Nour naked , but I asked no questions . |
| 3 | At the preview I asked no one in knew anything about it . |
| 4 | I asked no way could I take two years out again and that was it . |
| 5 | Emil , the crew and I wasted no time watching . |
| 6 | I wasted no time in entering the assembly area and rejoining the cheerful gang of visitors , buoyed up by the welcome infusion of champagne and looking forward to more . |
| 7 | I wasted no time in talking to the man … |
| 8 | I made no reply . |
| 9 | I made no secret of this when me and my ex were on good terms . |
| 10 | I made no pilgrimage to Valladolid , where it had all begun . |
| 11 | I made no comment and he looked disappointed . |
| 12 | Actually , I made no attempt to define anything . |
| 13 | From then on idle chit-chat returned and I made no attempt to direct things back to what I believed were more important matters . |
| 14 | She never revealed her own secrets to me but then after a while I made no more enquiries — I did n't want to do anything to lose her . ’ |
| 15 | I made no notes of these visits to Out Patients , for at the time I had no idea that I might one day feel my experience with cancer sufficiently interesting to write about . |
| 16 | ‘ I made no promise to Malachi , ’ he blustered . |
| 17 | When speaking to him I made no reference to the writer to the Hebrews , to the apostle Paul , to Moses or to the apostle Peter , but rather I concentrated on what the Lord Jesus Christ had to say on the subject . |
| 18 | Then when she was going out the next day and I made no attempt to open it , she said ‘ Where 's yer manners ? ‘ |
| 19 | I made no contribution to the evening , but Helen said I now had fairies sitting on both shoulders . |
| 20 | I made no attempt to impress or ingratiate . |
| 21 | I could have got away with murder that Saturday night , although under the present circumstances I had better add that I made no attempt to do so . |
| 22 | I made no friends or even close acquaintances during my eighteen months at college . |
| 23 | When I made no response he turned and gazed at the far line of coral reef that was marked by a fret of white breaking water . |
| 24 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 25 | In my diary I recognised it almost from the beginning , probably because I made no connection between it and non-eating , but seemed to have ascribed it to being overworked academically or being hounded into sporting activities which I resented for their profound pointlessness . |
| 26 | Suppose that , when I saw Lloyd George , I made no mistake only through making no judgement whatever … . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , I was so delighted to celebrate the mere existence of this euphoria that , as a reader pointed out , I made no attempt to analyze exactly what it was about the theme parks that had produced it . |
| 28 | I made no fewer than three telephone calls . |
| 29 | I made no protest at the time , though people asked me to , because I said ‘ there 's nothing worse than arguing against a foolish argument . |
| 30 | When I encountered Wigg later in the afternoon , I made no mention of this situation and characteristically neither did he . |