Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the invitation to the Phoenix Club came to nothing , as it did , an invitation from the English Club , in which I enjoyed no official status , though I was a member , bore fruit . |
| 2 | There were bookshelves along one wall , with titles ranging from John Keegan 's Six Armies in Normandy and Richard Holmes 's Firing Line , which I 'd read , to anonymous pulp volumes called A Social History of the Hand Grenade or similar , which I 'd no intention of reading . |
| 3 | So the Civil Contingencies Unit , the Cabinet committee set up after the miners ' strike of ‘ 72 , which I 've no doubt you were intimately involved in , in –74 actually delivered the goods . |
| 4 | As a regular attender of Irish League games could I suggest that the 22,000 who turned up for the United v Villa debacle perhaps try the fare served up in the Irish League which I 've no doubt they would find much more exciting ( unless Bangor and Ards are involved ! ) |
| 5 | Griffiths far instance , only came across Lewis 's power of imaginative invention and insight of which I had no conception before . |
| 6 | That was in Frankfurt when a meeting over which I had no control went on just too long and I had no chance of making my flight . |
| 7 | His adventures concluded he retires to Dulwich saying that he will never regret those two years , with their ‘ scenes of which I had no previous conception ’ leading to ‘ the enlargement of my mind ’ , PP passim . |
| 8 | The last time 1 wanted a telephone number in the US , I dialled information in New York for a number in Washington , for which I had no address . |
| 9 | They slipped off so I would n't approach her , which I had no intention of doing at all . ’ |
| 10 | Not only was this the evidence of a wonderful and mysterious world in which I had no place , I was being given the chance to destroy the evidence . |
| 11 | Things happened , things which I had no control over , and they triggered shocking memories of my childhood and the sexual abuse I suffered . |
| 12 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
| 13 | He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters . |
| 14 | While I was batting Franklin took an offside ball to which I offered no stroke and broke the wicket . |
| 15 | It was always by accident I 'd come upon him with others and watch him converse with people I 'd known nearly all my life , lighting them with his interest , vignettes in which I played no part . |
| 16 | As an entertaining distraction I have done some back of beer mat calculations on the Fantasy league in the Torygragh , and here are the results ( which I take no responsibilty for accuracy ) with some comment after : |
| 17 | Some distance from the rock on which we sat in conference conferring about the future of the world , if that does n't sound too pompous — an angsana stood , a large tropical tree , its branches full of birds to which I paid no attention . |
| 18 | The conclusion which I have reached results , in my view , not only from a settled and sustained line of authority which I see no reason to question and which I think should be endorsed but also from the view that any other conclusion would be constitutionally undesirable and impracticable . |
| 19 | An interesting feature of all these ducks ( for which I have no explanation to offer ) is that unlike most species of European ducks there is little or no difference between the sexes . |
| 20 | " When you did me the honour of appointing me to the Mastership of Stockport School I was led to suppose that the Income , inclusive of Ten Pounds paid by your Worshipful Company , amounted to nearly Three Hundred Pounds per annum , and from an Enquiry , however , during my Residence here , I have had the Mortification to find that the whole Salary was not more than £25 10 10½d , so that it was impossible for me to remain in the Situation without a Prospect of Church Preferment in the Neighbourhood , which I have no reason to hope for . |
| 21 | Thus if at this moment someone said something to me about " that ugly little statue on your fireplace " and accompanied this with an appropriate gesture , I should have little difficulty in identifying the object to which he is referring , but identification may not be so easy if a reference is made to an object that is not accessible to immediate perception , or of which I have no knowledge whatever . |
| 22 | I turn aside and bite off food for which I have no appetite . |
| 23 | I had it done to remind me of a mistake from which I have learnt much , and of an ending which I have no cause to regret . ’ |
| 24 | As this is quite a difficult idea , which I have no space to elaborate here , readers are recommended to read Scott-Hodgetts ' paper cited above . |
| 25 | Appropriate action in this case will depend on the details of the permission and current progress matters which the District Council dealt with and upon which I have no information . |
| 26 | There are several places which I have no intention of visiting , and I am sorry if this will cause some to respond with incredulous rage — the infinitesimally tiny village of Great Splitting , for example , with its medieval Adverbial Inn here each night they call Hurry Up Please It 's Timely ) , or the hamlet of Little Cayce , lying between Ewe and Eye . |
| 27 | Yesterday he drew attention to the three matters of concern to which I have no doubt that he will turn , in co-operation with other countries who are equally concerned , as soon as the Maastricht negotiations are complete . |
| 28 | There is a suspicion — no more than that — of which I have no clear evidence , that blanket decisions are taken on some applications . |
| 29 | My predecessor as librarian did , I admit , go in for some rather unpleasant stuff towards which I have no inclination , but being a libertarian I 'm certainly not going to act as censor . |
| 30 | That it is over something over which I have no control . |