Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] no [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I made no such suggestion , my lord , ’ protested Aycliffe . |
| 2 | I made no fewer than three telephone calls . |
| 3 | She never revealed her own secrets to me but then after a while I made no more enquiries — I did n't want to do anything to lose her . ’ |
| 4 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 5 | There were plenty of bike shops ( I visited no fewer than six ) , but not many cyclists around . |
| 6 | Counsel appearing on behalf of the appellants today does not accept the reason for those delays , but , as that is not central to the issue before this court , I say no more about it . |
| 7 | I say no more than that . |
| 8 | I 've been at a desk for years ; I want no more of it and I told them . |
| 9 | I want no more of it . |
| 10 | No , I 'm sorry , Julia , I want no more to do with her , sister or not . ’ |
| 11 | I want no more fighting or I might have to fight what shall I do with you ? |
| 12 | I hope no more will die . ’ |
| 13 | In the letter he said ‘ If I hear no more about him , I consider the horse mine . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I know no such thing , ’ she says indignantly . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not probing , you know , Joe , but we 've been together months now , nine of them , in fact , and I know no more about you now than on the day we met , except that you come from the wilds of Northumberland . |
| 16 | Fact is , Harrison , I know no more about it than you do . |
| 17 | ‘ I know no more than you , Corbett . |
| 18 | I say they must have got the knowledge from him somehow , by what manner of deception I know no more than you . |
| 19 | I heard no such thing , ’ he said to her . |
| 20 | So he goes back and I heard no more of it . |
| 21 | I heard no more of the debate and to the astonishment of my fellow delegates I stormed out of the auditorium and locked myself away in the Ladies to howl out my rage , alone . |
| 22 | In the end I heard no more about this requirement . |
| 23 | I heard no more of the exchange but this one remark was quite enough to establish his woeful ignorance about the theatre . |
| 24 | I heard no more on the subject ; and if this meant that I had failed to persuade Eliot to devote precious time to reading the book , I was more relieved than otherwise . |
| 25 | I heard no more from the Head ( could someone have come worse than me ? ) and also I found myself in a new dorm filled with chaps who were in the top classes at school . |
| 26 | In the older cases I find no such distinction . |
| 27 | I broke no more beds and when Humphreys , whose father was a market gardener , asked me what my father did , I said he was a football manager . |
| 28 | So I needed no more prompting than a letter from Sean Constable of Runcorn for me to choose Marcus Miller on Sanborn 's Hey for this month 's analysis ( enjoy your Elites , Sean ) . |
| 29 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw no such thing . ’ |