Example sentences of "[conj] no one [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His comments reflect the uncertainity of an experiment where no one under the age of 42 has voted before . |
| 2 | ‘ It is especially noteworthy that no one at the Bank appears to have accepted responsibility for its failure . |
| 3 | I think I left the Bench at least with an impression that they had someone very special to deal with , I was , of course , all the time praying that no one for the police would ask for his Conduct Sheet , which they overlooked after making a dutiful response to the Bench , and I hurried away to be met outside the Court by Stewart , who at once asked me to lend him a pound . |
| 4 | It is not only that no one on the planet has a bad word to say about Sybil : people trip over their superlatives . |
| 5 | The assessors will be working on last autumn 's crop soon enough , and the job will ensure that no one in the household asks any questions . |
| 6 | Constance felt a pang of sadness as she walked into the building on Ludovico 's arm , thinking that no one in the world who cared for them knew what was happening . |
| 7 | She had never known what love and tenderness were until she met her Aunty Lizzie , and she knew that no one in the world would ever love her like that woman did ; nor would she love anyone else . |
| 8 | Before the election in November 1972 , Nixon stated that no one in the White House knew anything of the plan ; and there the matter rested until the Watergate burglars went on trial in January 1973 before Judge Sirica in Washington . |
| 9 | He explained that no one in the community took vows and that all their worship was based on the Book of Common Prayer . |
| 10 | A Midland-based company , British Contact Sports Supplies , is currently trying to make the suit knife- and bullet-proof and , although no one from the Met Police could confirm or deny the rumours , it seems that plans may be afoot for them to adopt the suit in the future |
| 11 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 12 | There were very few people in the building and no one at the counter . |
| 13 | But there were no other boats and no one on the towpath above them to hear his ambiguous remark . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you need a special key and no one on the programme 's officially got one . |
| 15 | There were no spectators at all , which was a relief , and no one in the water of a size or shape which could be Nevil . |
| 16 | And then at a certain point she felt , and we felt , that Madam was n't quite enough ; and so just now , anyway , she was known as Madame , and no one in The Bar ever addressed her as anything else . |
| 17 | In Ireland I was recognized as English as soon as I appeared on anybody 's horizon , and no one in the Midlands asked me how ‘ we ’ were doing at Gaelic football , golf , bicycle racing or hurling . |
| 18 | He had insisted , so the story went , that he knew — and his knowledge was said to be based on information handed down from Choco ancestors long dead but unforgotten — what no one else in Panama knew ( or apparently wanted to ) , and no one in the world of historical scholarship knew either . |
| 19 | And no one in the administration ever — such is the unfairness of life — quite achieved the renown achieved by Lord Delamere as a great white father to the Masai . |
| 20 | If no one on the floor wishes to take the other side of the trade then he can deal with his own customer . |
| 21 | One of the Land Rovers was pierced by a single bullet and a mortar fragment but no one on the patrol was injured , despite the fact their attackers had loosed off 200-300 rounds at them . |
| 22 | But no one in the Gates had seen him . |
| 23 | Key decisions are taken which will affect people 's lives , but no one from the province has any say . |
| 24 | Guitarist Donita Sparks , at No 33 with Monster , says : ‘ We wanted to do something because no one in the music industry seems to care about our vanishing civil rights . ’ |
| 25 | Some ascribed this to the fact that most people were not interested in committee membership because no one in the centres , including staff , had any real power . |
| 26 | The most muttered-against official is the director of campaigning , John Lacy , though no one in the organisation expects him to go before the election . |
| 27 | Nerina is a very pretty , very bright girl ; of Muslim background , though no one in the family actually ever went to a mosque — well , only her brother . |
| 28 | ‘ Subliminal ’ advertising , which was most publicly ‘ exposed ’ in Vance Packard 's The Hidden Persuaders , is advertising that is supposed to work below the threshold of consciousness : a message flashed for a fraction of a second on a cinema screen was , it was alleged , able to increase sales of popcorn very significantly , even though no one in the audience could have taken it in — or , indeed , remembered it . |
| 29 | Do you remember , about three weeks ago , German radio announced that Hess was n't going to go to Spain , when no one in the world had said he was ? |