Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [indef pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early days the novelty must have outweighed the discomfort , or no one would have travelled in the first charabancs . |
| 2 | He pressed the bell and waited , half hoping that it would n't ring or no one would come . |
| 3 | Lower Lea or Swalecliffe lies under the shadow of the Iron Age hill fort on Madmarston Hill and the one must have succeeded the other . |
| 4 | There was the profile of the murderer and the profile of the victim and the one should tell you about the other . |
| 5 | Effective staff management is , therefore , as much concerned with ‘ why ’ and ‘ how ’ as ‘ what and ‘ when ; In other words , organisational processes are as significant as organisational tasks and the one should inform the other . |
| 6 | So when the shivering fit is over I write my bellicose article and no one would guess that I ever hesitated . |
| 7 | The reality was that he could walk into any bar or restaurant anywhere in the world and no one would give him a second glance . |
| 8 | Butch Beausoleil could live here in the nude and no one would give her a second glance . |
| 9 | Her father respected her wishes , and declared that from that day on , they were all brothers , and no one would do any harm to any chimpanzee . |
| 10 | They were jostled by smart young people , and no one would do anything for them . |
| 11 | Recalling their early days in racing , Lord Hesketh said : ‘ He was known as Hunt the Shunt and no one would hire him . |
| 12 | I could leave a Madonna tape in the middle of the room and no one would rip it ! |
| 13 | She would lay the table her own way , not the French way , and no one would reprove her for putting the forks and spoons face up . |
| 14 | Those claimants undermine the claims of genuine asylum seekers , and no one would wish to defend them . |
| 15 | He would take off for days and no one would see him . |
| 16 | Told you all then and no one would believe me , so I changed my story . ’ |
| 17 | She only needed an evening gown like the one Dana wore in the magazine picture and no one would believe there were two of them . |
| 18 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 19 | He could have kept Maggie to warm his bed and no one would have thought the worse of him for it . |
| 20 | They could all have screamed the place down , Mary could have been bitten to death by bats , and no one would have come . |
| 21 | He could , for instance , quite easily have taken Mrs Goreng aside later in the day and no one would have noticed . |
| 22 | Her garments were so large and flowing that a man could have pleasured her while she was waiting at a bus-stop and no one would have been any the wiser . |
| 23 | Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 24 | In a place like this we could scream for hours and no one would hear us . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ They reckoned it was haunted and no one would buy it , and in the end it got in such a state they got the council to pull it down . |
| 26 | When considering transport , it is fashionable to say that transport has changed dramatically over the past decade or so , and no one would deny that . |
| 27 | I could be murdered here and no one would know . |
| 28 | ‘ You could shut me in there and no one would know , ’ she said with a half-laugh to hide her nervousness . |
| 29 | In London you could be robbed , mugged , murdered , even , and no one would take the blindest bit of notice , yet here , in this little backwater , they 'd done all they could and more . |
| 30 | Learn 'em , fit yourself round 'em and no one 'll turn you away . ’ |