Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amiss tried to sound no more than mildly interested . |
| 2 | Clearly he was asking a question , but the gutturals of the language he used bore no relationship to any form of speech which was in use in the Empire . |
| 3 | By commissioning their own growers , in Reading or further afield , setting rigid standards , and testing their products , Suttons tried to sell no seed but that of ‘ highest purity and of full germination ’ . |
| 4 | Aimar promised to give no more help to his half-brothers of Angoulême and handed over his first — and third-born sons as hostages . |
| 5 | I tried to let no other thoughts enter my head . ’ |
| 6 | Whether this visit took place after Anselm 's return to England in September 1100 is unclear , but Anselm left the pope in no doubt about his view of the matter , and the pope promised to send no legate with authority over Canterbury during Anselm 's life time ; but it is clear that he did not , and could not , accept the Canterbury claim made by Anselm , that he should never appoint a legate in England other than the archbishop himself . |
| 7 | After all , even if the papal documents which he mentioned contained no statements about the primacy , the whole history of the archbishops ' powers as described in Bede 's Ecclesiastical History , which Lanfranc had recalled at length , rested on papal letters conferring the care of the whole country on Archbishop Augustine . |
| 8 | Mr Sloan had introduced Strathclyde procedures which she maintained had no place in Orkney . |
| 9 | In 1974 the Secretary of State , Mr Gordon Campbell , announced that after discussions with the Lord Advocate , he proposed to take no further action and a year later , after a change of government , his Labour successor Mr William Ross said he was n't going to act either . |
| 10 | Thirteen rare species and 3 introduced species were also discovered and Dr Lassiere is particularly concerned that 8 of the 14 sites where these occurred have no special conservation protection . |
| 11 | I tried to make no mistakes , but they called me naughty every moment of the day . |
| 12 | He promised to lend no more support to his half-brothers in Angoulême . |
| 13 | When she asked , I promised to tell no one . |
| 14 | Eight of the twelve Members I interviewed made no complaint of bias towards the front-benches ( or vice-versa ! ) , or felt that the balance had been well struck , but four expressed reservations . |
| 15 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 16 | At first she 'd given no thought to missing for a month , putting it down to the trauma of losing Pa , but by the time nothing showed for the third month running there could be no doubt that the worst had happened . |
| 17 | Luke seemed to lose no opportunity of parting her and Rob whenever he found them together , as if he could n't bear to see them slacken pace . |
| 18 | Before marrying Shirley , he 'd written an honourable and honest letter to Betty Fowler , but he 'd received no reply . |
| 19 | She may have acted impetuously , but she 'd intended no malice , and she 'd always had Kirsty 's best interests at heart . |
| 20 | However much she ate made no difference to her shapely figure . |
| 21 | To Julia 's eye she seemed to wear no powder or lipstick , but then she hardly needed any . |
| 22 | He spoke in a pleasing linguistic mixture that seemed to acknowledge no boundaries between Spanish and English . |
| 23 | But he seemed to bear no grudge . |
| 24 | All that day she thought about his words , considered them , agonised over them , tried to justify her behaviour that now seemed to bear no justification at all . |
| 25 | This they seemed to find no difficulty in doing , once the meeting started . |
| 26 | Whatever his motives , his contribution was unwelcome : he was , he said , taken to one side and told so ; he seemed to suffer no other reprisals . |
| 27 | Benthamism seemed to provide no basis for determining whether the principle of utility aimed to maximize an individual 's happiness or the happiness of all . |
| 28 | Subjects seemed to provide No responses slower than giving Yes responses initially , but No response reaction time increased at a greater rate tending to converge with reaction time for Yes responses in larger memory sets of about four digits onwards . |
| 29 | I kept telling myself that it was n't likely , that the man who shot at me could n't have known anything about my boat or he would n't have asked about my car , that I 'd met no one else on the entire expedition , and that if ever a place could be described as lonely and unvisited , it was Winter Marsh in mid-October . |
| 30 | Cameras in the Lords seemed to cause no great problems : perhaps some of their major debates were better attended and persistent viewers became aware of the varied quality of the contributions to debates . |