Example sentences of "[pron] no good " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's doing himself no good at all — just harm . ’ |
| 2 | Simply used as a marketing term , to designate a fashionable commodity , it might also have appealed to publishers , had it been available at the time , as a packaging for the wave of fiction that followed in the tracks of Eco and Calvino in the early and mid-1980s , and for which no better epithet could be found than ‘ new ’ or ‘ young ’ ( despite a number of its representatives being somewhat less than youthful ) . |
| 3 | Two of them do reach results which appear to conflict with the wording , and for which no good reason can be found other than the one they give themselves : that this was the testator 's intention . |
| 4 | In the Declaration of Arbroath they made their principles splendidly clear : For as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive we shall never in any wise submit to the rule of the English , for it is not for glory alone we fight , for riches , or for honours , but for freedom , which no good man loses but with his life . |
| 5 | After isolating those checks for which no good reason , business or not , could be found , management reduced the checks to fewer than 75 . |
| 6 | Dealing with that sort of thing day in and day out does you no good … |
| 7 | ‘ Did it do you no good at all ? |
| 8 | ‘ It ca n't do you no good if you spit it out . |
| 9 | And he said yes you can , but it would do you no good at all , cos if the point came when you split up the judge would n't look at your contract , he would only consider the rights of the child . |
| 10 | Oh Hayley not doing you no good love . |
| 11 | To feed them on food which does them no good at all even though they like the taste would be irresponsible on waters where carp baits are the major part of the fish 's diet . |
| 12 | Housewifely talk suited them no better . |
| 13 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 14 | Fred has given me no good reason for wanting us to break up our marriage like this . ’ |
| 15 | Time to fast from it That session with She-She had done me no good at all . |
| 16 | This is doing me no good at all whereas it seems to be all me and my wife it 's but like we went to court , Mr and Mrs who were equally involved in it |
| 17 | I 'm fed up with waiting but out of town , it 's doing me no good all the way round there right round here some , there 's a home , she 'd have to take it |
| 18 | She straightened her shoulders , harking back to the past would do her no good at all , it was all gone , like a once-cherished dream . |
| 19 | It would do her no good now . |
| 20 | Yet this was a man who felt nothing but contempt for her , who thought her no better than a thief . |
| 21 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 22 | Darling finished the tour with 1022 runs at 34.07 , but in that strong batting line-up this gave him no better than eighth place . |
| 23 | But here Balboa 's persuasive charm did him no good : a Chief Torecha , leader of a tribe of mountain Caribs , set about defending his lands , and there was a brief and bloody battle which the Spaniards ( hardly surprisingly ) won . |
| 24 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 25 | The only previous controlled trial of social work help for depression ( Corney , 1981 ) had found it no better than treatment-as-usual from the GP . |
| 26 | ‘ And then all this immense expense of art , that seems somehow to lie outside life and make it no better for the world , pains one . ’ |
| 27 | It made it no better for her that they had been after her father . |
| 28 | Two ton of iron [ the tractor ] going over the land do n't do it no good — it stands to reason ! |
| 29 | She , Madame Gauthier , wife of the proprietor , had her business to attend to , and this kind of scandal did it no good at all . |
| 30 | I have in some sort made myself a party to your situation , and it will go hard with my conscience if you find yourself no better blessed than in your old condition . |