Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a sense this Northern mythology asks more of men , even makes more of them , than does Christianity , for it offers them no heaven , no salvation , no reward for virtue except the sombre satisfaction of having done what is right . |
| 2 | Their tactical naivety and non-dynamic ‘ donkeys-and-backs ’ approach made them no match for the super-fit ‘ new age ’ stars from Down Under . |
| 3 | I tried to pull myself out but my foot was caught in some branches and the current squashed the canoe hard up against me , allowing me no movement . |
| 4 | Stones in the bladder were a very common ailment in middle life , and something for which my first aid training had given me no preparation . |
| 5 | You have given me no reason to trust you . ’ |
| 6 | The seating plan had given me no view at all of my now-giggling pals , but the great bonus of being next to Patricia Hutchinson , and opposite the Principal , who is most gracious , and does n't miss a trick . |
| 7 | ‘ Karl has given me no indication that he wants to leave and Paul Dixon is the only player they have got who is good enough to get in my side . |
| 8 | ‘ This Budget has given me no confidence to spend whatsoever , ’ Mr Ingram said . |
| 9 | The resources they command make them no match for national and transnational corporations . |
| 10 | We 've given them no bother as far the union is concerned — they 've had a free hand and we feel severely let down |
| 11 | Iron Josh had certainly given them no trouble when they had driven into his yard at the back of Old George 's Street and ordered him to climb into the cart . |
| 12 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 13 | ‘ She bore me no heir ; that was why I married her . |
| 14 | He say you no whore . |
| 15 | If your hair causes you no concern , count yourself lucky . |
| 16 | He was a gentleman doing his job and I bore him no malice . |
| 17 | Though I had never been hurt like this before , strangely enough I bore him no resentment for these beatings , accepting them as the penalty for what I had done . |
| 18 | The three answering apparitions make him feel safer with their answers of … and yet he decides to kill Macduff for safe measure but as Macduff has fled he decides to kill everyone linked with Macduff though they pose him no threat . |
| 19 | It cost him no effort , no extra pain . |
| 20 | ‘ Whatever happens I shall have enjoyed it no end . |
| 21 | However we have always found that most seamen are good natured fellows , and they seemed to bear us no malice . |
| 22 | And cer the determination of the women , that we were n't gon na be starved back to work , we were n't gon na be forced back to work , we were n't just gon na end in chaos and some of us going back and some of us staying out , I think it was the women possibly talking to their husbands or , and just reassuring each other , you know that helped us no end . |
| 23 | As late as yesterday the Home Office told them no decision 's been made on its future . |
| 24 | The neurosurgeon who had been in charge of Guy 's case in the hospital would give them no help or advice , and neither did the doctors . |
| 25 | On 19 July Roberts and Cross wrote to Dr John Lawrence at SWWA suggesting that the public had been exposed to a more serious hazard than had been admitted : they were told that they could meet Lawrence but he would give them no information . |
| 26 | reckon you could do them no problem ? |
| 27 | There is a popular view that if an older person has a drink , ‘ it will do them no harm ’ . |
| 28 | They had heard the unnatural humming of a pylon in the summer air ; and had actually gone beneath it , on Fiver 's assurance that it could do them no harm . |
| 29 | Well , it would do them no good . |
| 30 | I was hungry , but room service was extortionately expensive and it would do me no harm to fast for one night . |