Example sentences of "they [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told them to spare no expense . ’ |
| 2 | Whether he was still staring out of the window at the storm or watching them made no difference . |
| 3 | Yeah I was just saying , let them know no where we going then ? |
| 4 | Since the lands of the Templars in England were worth nearly £3000 annually , the reluctance of Edward II , no less than of Edward III , to surrender them needs no great explanation . |
| 5 | We did make them promise No Guns . ’ |
| 6 | A complete and intentional obliteration of a will or any part of it , so that what was written can no longer be seen , amounts to a revocation of what is obliterated ; but merely striking words through with a pen or altering them has no effect , unless the cancellation or alteration is signed by the testator and attested by two witnesses like a new will . |
| 7 | And I can promise you that more than one of them has no right to be there . |
| 8 | But to combine them has no logic at all . |
| 9 | In terms of their greenbelt function , the the the the boundary between them has no effect on the greenbelt purposes . |
| 10 | ‘ One of them has no brain at all , the other is all brain . ’ |
| 11 | This she was able to do , but the evaluators found that many of the books had never been opened and that most of them bore no issue dates , even though it was three years since their acquisition . |
| 12 | The instructions which come with a video recorder tend to be expressed in an amiable pidgin Japanese , but the citizen who misunderstands them suffers no worse fate than that of failing to record the programme that he wants , unless and until his ten-year-old grandson can be prevailed upon to work the thing for him . |
| 13 | It assumed so much — as if the link that was between them needed no words … |
| 14 | They knew that she had money , and most of them saw no reason why they should n't go Dutch when they went out , and , until now , neither had she . |
| 15 | Once back upstairs in the box , he could not leave the mystery alone and his mind conjured up all sorts of solutions but analysing them brought no relief . |
| 16 | The working population has thus continued to make contributions for which they gain no benefit . |
| 17 | They met no one on the way to the door ; the servants were discreetly elsewhere . |
| 18 | They met no other cars on the road and when they reached Langstone itself they did n't stop . |
| 19 | Do n't judge by other children , they got no ambition . ’ |
| 20 | They got no more sympathy from the global banking system than you or I would ( or did ) in similar circumstances . |
| 21 | After all , they got no further commission for such a service . |
| 22 | When he sent ambassadors here , they got no sympathetic hearing from the barons ; the king , however , was a master of the timely gesture . |
| 23 | In May papal backing was given to her conditions for return ; two legates brought letters urging the younger Despenser to assist the reconciliation of the king and queen , virtually a request for him to abandon the court , but they got no further than Dover where the king interviewed them and threatened them with death if they dared to publish the pope 's letters . |
| 24 | They got no putting a bit of best clothes on and having a good time breaking in in people 's houses and one thing and another . |
| 25 | ‘ They got no control , parents , ’ she added . |
| 26 | ‘ They got no grasp of reality , ’ said Constance . |
| 27 | They got no coolers or anything like that , fridges , and nothing of that you know , and er , you 'd got a , we used to fetch it in the morning and we used to supply Massey 's Lavender 's in and two other , two or three other little places . |
| 28 | Well , of course , there was , they got no methods of keeping it you see . |
| 29 | The pilots were drunk and half-naked ; they got no help from the French girls , who simply screamed and tried to get out of the window . |
| 30 | Oh no they got no whisky but they got er Eversons be when the rocks were started first when the commissioners started the rocks first the Bell rock was the first . |