Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to let no other thoughts enter my head . ’ |
| 2 | I tried to make no mistakes , but they called me naughty every moment of the day . |
| 3 | When she asked , I promised to tell no one . |
| 4 | I seemed to have no value for him and it began to feel like a kind of death . |
| 5 | I 'd seen no sign of Mala , but I had n't expected it , since she 'd been right about us being less obvious if we were apart . |
| 6 | Well , I 'd made no appointment with him , of course . |
| 7 | Her face said I 'd scored no points . |
| 8 | I kept telling myself that it was n't likely , that the man who shot at me could n't have known anything about my boat or he would n't have asked about my car , that I 'd met no one else on the entire expedition , and that if ever a place could be described as lonely and unvisited , it was Winter Marsh in mid-October . |
| 9 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 10 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd got no money , no night things , no spare clothes , no bank card . |
| 12 | And I 'd got no clothes to change into ! |
| 13 | My mitt 's just about come back to reality , last night when I was playing my trumpet right , it was numb , my fingers , I 'd got no feeling in it , it was as though it was dead . |
| 14 | Remember getting to Leek , I 'd got no overcoat had I , has he got eh , cos we had uniform then , and I got a set , a civvy suit , you know ? |
| 15 | And as time went on course I 'd got no experience of house cleaning boots and managing , or anything like that ! |
| 16 | Then , after I 'd made sure that I 'd left no telltale traces , I was off . |
| 17 | But I 'd had no sleep and I was feeling it got worse . |
| 18 | I 'd been so busy I 'd had no time to think . |
| 19 | And I was getting tired , I 'd had no idea how much hauling one of those things around the sky would take it out of you , and then I was coming ‘ down ’ , ‘ down ’ fast . |
| 20 | If I 'd had no gear the night before , I would n't go to bed all night . |
| 21 | I did n't want the child , I was n't at all sure I was going to love it , even — certainly I 'd had no hints up to now that mother-love had n't been completely left out of my make-up . |
| 22 | I 'd had no leave and , what with one thing and another , I rather wanted a break . |
| 23 | Eight of the twelve Members I interviewed made no complaint of bias towards the front-benches ( or vice-versa ! ) , or felt that the balance had been well struck , but four expressed reservations . |
| 24 | I vowed to have no more to do with her but thought I ought to return her shoes and her key , so I snatched Frankie 's comic and tried to persuade him to come with me . |
| 25 | But in the morning , after sleeping on those terms of the ‘ contract ’ , I decided to have no part of it . |
| 26 | In fact , I needed to look no further than the ground below me . |
| 27 | ( LOB M03 50 12 ) ( " I dared venture no further . " ) |
| 28 | I had made no arrangements for that first night . |
| 29 | I began to realize how inadequate my picture of Laura was ; that I had made no room in my thoughts for an independent life of her own , let alone one as earthed and pragmatic as the potter 's craft . |
| 30 | As is so often the case with such ventures the programme was overambitious ; by the time I completed the initial research I had reached no further than 1910 ( Marriott 1984 ) . |