Example sentences of "she [vb past] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a measure of Cecilia 's character that , unlike most people , she experienced no schadenfreude about this , felt no secret pleasure in the superiority of her circumstances over her friend 's , but sincerely regretted Daphne 's inferior home and reduced income . |
| 2 | She met no open hostility . |
| 3 | She met no one large enough in spirit to receive a confidence . |
| 4 | If she shared no blood tie with Hugh Russell , she found herself debating the morality of claiming any part of his estate at all . |
| 5 | As is common practice , Landlords kept the tenant 's deposit of £650 and told Debbie they would take their entire fee of £881 up front , so she expected no rent for the first month . |
| 6 | She had been standing on her own , holding a teacup in front of her , not looking about her , but rather fixedly out of the window , as though she expected no one to approach and invited no one . |
| 7 | ‘ Where does your kindness come from ? ’ she asked , and said it almost as if she expected no answer . |
| 8 | She expected no one . |
| 9 | She expected no favours from Ace , and he would be the last to give her any as far as her job was concerned . |
| 10 | She made no effort to turn over , although she thought about it , imagined how it might be to lean on one elbow , to twist her body in a single movement . |
| 11 | In 1979 Mrs Thatcher made election pledges to increase old age pensions in line with inflation and to ‘ protect ’ the National Health Service , although she made no commitments about other areas . |
| 12 | Her lips moved , but she made no sound that he could hear . |
| 13 | I remember how her country beginnings showed themselves then : she made no fuss about seeming to be lost , nor did she work herself up into a state as the aunts would have done , just stood there patiently and quietly while I untangled her and found the way ; and did not even grumble , although after that I let her decide where we should go , which was usually across a field near the sewage plant , and along a road near the gasworks . |
| 14 | She made no distinction between callow youth and Cabinet Minister . |
| 15 | She made no more plans . |
| 16 | I am all right , she said , I am fine , but she made no further attempt to rise . |
| 17 | Her right knee was raised to form a screen that prevented Dennis from seeing what was going on , but she made no attempt to conceal it from me . |
| 18 | She made no move , but Beejay seized her mane and she subsided . |
| 19 | She made no attempt to break it gently ; her mood was not tactful . |
| 20 | She made no objection to his strange ways , his obsessive working habits were his own business , and she found nothing repugnant in his looks , his soiled clothes . |
| 21 | But at least she made no objection . |
| 22 | She made no resistance . |
| 23 | When he gently pushed her backwards and began undoing the buttons of her dress and cupped a hand over one of her small breasts she made no attempt to resist . |
| 24 | As the wife of the civic leader , Mrs Murphy had to do considerable entertaining in generous western style , but in this field she made no attempt to keep pace with Olga Stych or Donna Frizzell ; she knew when she was beaten . |
| 25 | When it was published she made no attempt to distance herself from it . |
| 26 | ‘ Tip glass , tip ! ’ she ordered , but her lips did n't move and she made no sound . |
| 27 | She made no attempt to take the proffered tickets . |
| 28 | She made no backward glance to signify the presence of anyone else in the room . |
| 29 | A single tear escaped from the corner of her eye but she made no move to look away . |
| 30 | She made no attempts to decorate it , to domesticate it , to possess it ; she let it be , and her things lay in it . |