Example sentences of "'d been no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you could call it afternoon when there 'd been no lunch . |
| 2 | There 'd been no word from Guy after he went away , but , knowing his friend 's house was isolated , with no telephone , Leonora was unconcerned . |
| 3 | There 'd been no warning . |
| 4 | When she said she 'd been going to visit her friend , there 'd been no friend . |
| 5 | There 'd been no call for him to attend . |
| 6 | There 'd been no women before then , in the sense of a community . |
| 7 | The promised home help had n't turned up despite several letters , and there 'd been no sign of the district nurse over the weekend . |
| 8 | Thankfully , there 'd been no traffic coming ; the concept of striking up an intimate — indeed potentially penetrative — relationship with the rocks on the far side of the road had been bad enough ; but even the prospect of a head-on with another lump of metal travelling at anything remotely like the sort of speed we were sustaining might have resulted in me making my mark in the most embarrassing fashion on the leather upholstery of the Bavarian macht-wagen . |
| 9 | There 'd been no need to unpack properly , because tomorrow she 'd be leaving , of course . |
| 10 | There 'd been no need to behave like a fool . |
| 11 | If the three arrows had all had flights … if there 'd been no wind … |
| 12 | The reason the return of Madness got the fans out and raised critical hackles was because there 'd been no outfit to take their place in the intervening years . |
| 13 | There 'd been no shooting for a long while . |
| 14 | For seven years they 'd lived apart — Adam in Wickrithe with Gran , herself in Coniston with Aunt Sarah and Uncle Nick — but now that she was back in Wickrithe , helping Gran with her bed-and-breakfast business for the summer , it was as if there 'd been no break . |
| 15 | The story was an ancient warrant that the girls of those parts were the beauties of their day , that there 'd been no break with the proud Greek tradition . |
| 16 | For a while now there 'd been no sound save the lazy creak of the sails and the soft slap of water against their bows . |
| 17 | One day in February the boiler broke down ; there 'd been no heat or hot water all day . |
| 18 | ‘ Until I left London there 'd been no signal from Clarion Call for four days . ’ |
| 19 | On Harper 's behalf it was said that although he 'd been reckless , dangerous and stupid by starting the fire , there 'd been no evil or mischief in his mind . |