Example sentences of "no [noun] [adv] [adv] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how carefully I listened , and the faintest signals that I dug up , all my finds proved to be items of 17th century date . |
| 2 | The stair of my billet creaked , however , and no matter how carefully I tiptoed , in the morning I was always greeted with , ‘ We heard you come in last night ’ , and of course I felt guilty , especially as we could not defend ourselves , having to pretend that our work was of no account . |
| 3 | She gets these surges of anger now and then , against injustice and evil and so on , no matter how often I try to remind her about the facts of life . |
| 4 | No matter how often I arrive at Kyle , by land or sea , I can always admire its situation which , for a railhead town , takes some beating . |
| 5 | No matter how hard I concentrate I always end up clambering out of a manhole in Duke Ellington Boulevard with a dustbin-lid on my head . |
| 6 | ‘ I always get what I want , no matter how hard I have to fight for it . ’ |
| 7 | No matter how hard I hit him he was there in front of me . ’ |
| 8 | For the truth was , no matter how hard I found to suppress it , I was becoming impatient with Jim . |
| 9 | ‘ No matter how hard I tried I could never reach your standards . |
| 10 | No matter how hard I tried to steel myself , you just became more and more persuasive . |
| 11 | I bided my time but patience was still not a part of my nature no matter how continually I courted it . |
| 12 | The earth curved up and around me wherever I went , as if I were at the bottom of a dish , and no matter how far I travelled I could get no nearer the rim — like a spaceman hurtling , as he thinks , towards the edge of the universe , only to find it unfolding before him and closing in behind , so that he is always at the centre . |
| 13 | No matter how much I hate — them — I will never root for my beloved Leeds to lose , even if it was to indirectly win the scum a treble . |
| 14 | And no matter how much I have tried , |
| 15 | I became really depressed because no matter how much I loved my children or tried to take care of them , I could neither keep the doctor at bay or the fungus that was destroying everything that it came into contact with . |
| 16 | I felt such a hypocrite in church , knowing that He knew about me , knowing that no matter how much I washed I was still unclean , unfit to stand in His house . |