Example sentences of "no [noun] of [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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No Sentence
1 There were no signs of him about the place .
2 If I remember rightly , you pointed out forcibly that no man would look the side she was on ever again because cheap women had no hope of anything in the future but of being used .
3 Although there is no mention of it on the map , I could swear that the tiny loch has a crannog in it .
4 ‘ That was n't in my contract , and there was no mention of it in the programme Giles and Cavell have outlined for me either . ’
5 Thatcher said that there would be no relaxation of anything in the budget .
6 So I rang United Airlines head office , at my own expense , and spoke to a woman who could find no record of me on the UA computer .
7 I pointed out that it had already been a month , and there was no record of me on the Chicago computer .
8 There is no record of anyone in the family resisting this move .
9 If she did any work around the place , there was no evidence of it on the desk .
10 No sign of her in the dining-room .
11 There was no sign of her in the street but a taxi might draw up at any moment .
12 He had not seen her all day and badly wanted to say goodbye , but there was no sign of her in the crowd that had gathered to see them off .
13 He wanted to know where Miss Stapleton was , and I had to tell him twice that there was no sign of her in the house .
14 There was no sign of her in the entrance foyer , nor in the street outside .
15 I looked through the window and there was no sign of him through the little back window , looked through this one , there was still sign so I thought God !
16 How convenient that Devlin was playing piano there although there was no sign of him at the moment .
17 Although there was no sign of him on the Moscow march , many of the demonstrators chanted support for Mr Boris Yeltsin , sacked as Moscow party chief but overwhelmingly elected last March as the city 's representative on the new Congress of People 's Deputies .
18 There was no sign of them in the next field , but ahead of him at the top of the hill he saw the young dog , looking black against the morning sky .
19 She 'd seen no trace of anyone else in the village , and no sign of anyone along the afternoon 's walk .
20 There was no sign of it on the surface — the track was probably carried over it on sleepers , long embedded in the mud of years — and the entrance to the drain was completely hidden by long grass .
21 IF THIS WEEK 'S striking display of Labour unity was more show than substance , there was no sign of it among the party 's ‘ other ranks ’ as they dispersed in buoyant mood from Brighton .
22 There was no hint of it in the religion of Israel , which maintained such a clear emphasis on the otherness , the transcendence of the Creator God .
23 There were no photographs of her in the house in King Street , and the photographs Stephen had seen he had wrested out of old Mrs Naulls .
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