Example sentences of "no [indef pn] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one expected to reverse the pull of 14 years of refugee resettlement overnight , and there is little doubt that voluntary repatriation would pick up speed if the Hong Kong authorities used quiet persuasion instead of the big stick . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ People witnessed the man running away , others reported a man hanging around in the area but no one admits seeing the assault happen . |
| 3 | The better they get , the better they could have been ; and no one likes to leave a past behind him that could have been better . |
| 4 | No one likes to bear the responsibility for such decisions . |
| 5 | No one had heard the jackals howling , but the dogs , alerted to something , had barked and barked . |
| 6 | The president waited before going on , to confirm that no one had missed the report . |
| 7 | No one had realized the seriousness of the illness , and the players only heard about his death from newspaper billboards on their way to the ground . |
| 8 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
| 9 | No one had tampered with it , no one had viewed the body within . |
| 10 | ‘ And no one had collected the keys during the day , not even the churchwardens ? ’ |
| 11 | The reason no one had developed a product before was Windows 3 toolkits did not appear until six months ago , Dawe claims . |
| 12 | He checked the bathroom and kitchen and only then stood up to look through the windows to be certain that no one had made a run for the trees . |
| 13 | He had been met by the Defence Ministry people , who had taken him directly from the aircraft steps , but no one had said a word on the way into the city . |
| 14 | No one had told the Poms they were meant to go quietly . |
| 15 | No one had put a name to the woman before . |
| 16 | But on reflection , she had realized that no one had taken the friendship with the USSR wholly seriously , and now the realization of how much worry it must have caused the Führer and ‘ the greatness of his diplomacy ’ made her feel ‘ quite small ’ . |
| 17 | I sometimes wonder if the reason I struggled with university mathematics was that no one had taken the trouble to express the mysteries of analysis in comic strip form . |
| 18 | I do now recall you saying no one had used the name in years . ’ |
| 19 | He peered into the binnacle as though checking that no one had stolen the compass . |
| 20 | When I was on the parapet of the convent wall I saw fresh horse dung lying near the main gate ; it was not from our mounts , but the lady prioress said no one had approached the convent . ’ |
| 21 | No one had driven the paint away on their tyres . |
| 22 | With his sons , no one dare to tell the truth . |
| 23 | He flew his favourite Japanese sushi chef over from LA specially , but no one remembered to hire an interpreter . |
| 24 | I 've been having some quite intelligent guesses but no one 's hit the nail on the head . |
| 25 | said no one 's taken the money in |
| 26 | ‘ No one seems to face the fact that this is bound to reduce the tragic to the simply catastrophic . |
| 27 | One of the great problems in achieving any change in the preregistration experience is that no one seems to have the power and the will to do much about it . |
| 28 | There is a profound streak of anti-modernism running through the Thatcherite Kingdom of the Bland : no one seems to want the future any more , apart from Martin Pawley . |
| 29 | She took her time over it , waiting until she was sure no one wanted to use the bathroom , and going downstairs a couple of times for drinks and stories with Sylvia . |
| 30 | The only way to reverse the situation was by force , and the failure of the Woodvilles ' efforts in that direction had demonstrated that no one wanted to risk a slide into civil war . |