Example sentences of "no-one could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
2 | Watford looked more dangerous though and no-one could dispute they deserved a matchwinning goal . |
3 | Instead , there was a tall , straggly looking tree seemingly at precisely the right spot , but it was definitely not a palm ; no-one could mistake it for one . |
4 | It was no longer just go out and do a gig with your equipment — there were lighting men , dancers , singers , — there was so much that I think no-one could handle it and he was wanting more and more to make the show very good . |
5 | He knew he ought not to mark the books really , but it was only a tiny mark in pencil and no-one could accuse him of defacing library property , not really , it would n't do for an ex-library committee member to be caught defacing library property now would it . |
6 | No-one could accuse him of having a truly awful game at Windsor but we still await the ‘ big one ’ from Michael on Ulster soil . |
7 | ‘ No-one could accuse me of being a half-b-b-bottle man , ’ said Ricky . |
8 | ‘ No-one could accuse you of unnecessary panic , Wallace . |
9 | ‘ No-one could say she was n't a good mother . ’ |
10 | Then it follows from that that understanding Shakespeare and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive is also a good because if , for example , this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no-one could see him and no-one could understand him , and no-one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment . |
11 | Then it follows from that that understanding Shakespeare and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive is also a good because if , for example , this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no-one could see him and no-one could understand him , and no-one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment . |
12 | But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America . |
13 | Keep out the world and live as a recluse ; admit what visitors one wishes ; create tenancies or sub-tenancies ; grow mushrooms in the cellar ; sing bawdy songs in the bath ; paint the front door a luminous green ; sunbathe in the nude — no-one could list them all . |
14 | ‘ It seems that I still have some friends in Swansea , ’ Edward said softly , ‘ no-one could convict me on such trumped-up evidence . |