Example sentences of "no [indef pn] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one had heard the jackals howling , but the dogs , alerted to something , had barked and barked . |
| 2 | The president waited before going on , to confirm that no one had missed the report . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No one had tampered with it , no one had viewed the body within . |
| 6 | ‘ And no one had collected the keys during the day , not even the churchwardens ? ’ |
| 7 | The reason no one had developed a product before was Windows 3 toolkits did not appear until six months ago , Dawe claims . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | No one had told the Poms they were meant to go quietly . |
| 11 | No one had put a name to the woman before . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I do now recall you saying no one had used the name in years . ’ |
| 15 | He peered into the binnacle as though checking that no one had stolen the compass . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | No one had driven the paint away on their tyres . |
| 18 | I 've been having some quite intelligent guesses but no one 's hit the nail on the head . |
| 19 | said no one 's taken the money in |
| 20 | This is a relatively small volcano , and so easily accessible that it has even been suggested that a hotel should be built beneath it , to make an especially attractive night spot for jaded Guatemalans , but so far no one has risked the capital . |
| 21 | No one has seen a mountain goat killed in this way , but in Europe , golden eagles regularly knock chamois from cliff ledges in order to feed on their carcasses . |
| 22 | No one has devised a research method , short of market trials , that can compare different media — and even such tests have their pitfalls . |
| 23 | The bicycle was obviously shaking the old order to the roots , and with its customary irreverence the socialist Clarion ( 30 July 1898 ) — which had a large stake in the matter , because of the enormously popular Clarion Cycling Clubs — wondered ‘ how it is no one has written a cycling melodrama , with a hero and a heroine and a villain on wheels ’ . |
| 24 | On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors . |
| 25 | We are not told directly in documents why one site was chosen rather than another , and , as yet , no one has developed the insight of the prehistoric , Anglo-Saxon or medieval colonist to understand fully the reasons why he used a particular bit of the landscape as he did . |
| 26 | The fact that no one has created a furore over this would suggest that Ireland has travelled a hell of a healthy distance since those dark days in the 60's when your book was banned . |
| 27 | But the real wonder of pop biopics is that no one has made a movie about Jim Morrison before now ( The Doors opens on March 15 ) . |
| 28 | Ask yourself why , for example , no one has made The Pete Townshend Story , with its denouement in the offices of Faber & Faber publishing , or Jagger ! , complete with barnstorming finale in the pavilion at Lord 's . |
| 29 | Stendhal , on his return to his adopted city after an absence of two years , claimed La Scala to be the most important opera in the world , since which time no one has felt the need , or had the temerity , to fault his judgement . |
| 30 | ‘ No one has forgotten the devastation that Phylloxera brought to our vineyards . |