Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I gain no pleasure from that sort of entertainment , ’ he had protested earlier to Meredith . |
| 2 | Any one of your tenants , Sir John , and I mean no offence , could be the assassin . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean no offence . |
| 4 | ‘ Father , I mean no offence , ’ Colebrooke answered , taking off his conical helmet and cradling it in his arms . |
| 5 | dreadful it is , and there 's no erm , I mean no hope for the kids |
| 6 | I mean no disrespect to the geriatric branch of the hospital service nor to the domiciliary services or the rapidly increasing old people 's houses and homes provided by local housing , health and welfare authorities when I say that I believe we are still groping and fumbling with this problem — all of us , social scientists and politicians alike . |
| 7 | " I mean no disrespect , of course . |
| 8 | I mean no disrespect to the media , but some matters are carried forward more easily with the calm deliberation that the right hon. Gentleman described . |
| 9 | I mean no disrespect to the hon. Member for South Shields ( Dr. Clark ) , but , apart from his whinge against my right hon. Friend 's personal qualities , I did not detect that he would do anything fundamentally different were he in my right hon. Friend 's shoes . |
| 10 | Next in schedule three there is provision to compensate Mr and Mrs for the extra work involved in caring for Paul , it is agreed that er since they are in the special position of course of being Paul 's carers they are , not er , I mean no disrespect to nursing but they 're not erm it is agreed that there should a deduction of twenty five percent , that would give an annual figure of two thousand , six hundred and thirty one times four will amount to ten thousand five hundred and twenty four pounds , adding these figures together , future care during schooling comes if my addition has been accurate to ninety three thousand , six hundred and fifty pounds in total . |
| 11 | ‘ No … no , ’ said Creggan quickly , ‘ I mean no harm . |
| 12 | ‘ I am a golden eagle , ’ he said fiercely , ‘ and I mean no harm to you or yours . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Father Reynard , I mean no harm . ’ |
| 14 | quite good authorities to work for or , I mean no cash I suppose , but erm got some money |
| 15 | it was only occasionally , I mean no bother with it or each other |
| 16 | Again I intend no disrespect ; the novel is anything but tepid . |
| 17 | I intend no harm to her if she 'd have left her squealings and I did no harm neither but to myself . |
| 18 | The Minister for the Environment and Countryside is no longer here — I make no criticism of him for that — but I listened to his opening remarks , and I know that he will speak to colleagues in Brussels . |
| 19 | I make no apology for repeating the fact that a farmer 's living comes from the soil and the crops and livestock that grow on it ; and not from buildings , machinery , and equipment . |
| 20 | ‘ I make no apology for cheque-book journalism , ’ he once said . |
| 21 | I make no apology for the title of this chapter because it was an expression which my cousins used very frequently . |
| 22 | Two of these are worthy of a wider audience and thus I make no apology for including them in this month 's Surgery ! |
| 23 | Featured previously in these columns I make no apology for repeating my plea to anyone who has copies of this publication to look after them , because good examples are none too common these days . |
| 24 | It takes a big man to allow a homeless person into his underpants , so I make no apology for returning to the otherwise distressing subject of Jonathan Lloyd 's nether garments . |
| 25 | I make no apology or make no bones about being partisan . |
| 26 | I make no apology for it . ’ |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it is useful to distinguish between our various means of correlation and I make no apology for suggesting another term , just to draw attention to its usefulness as a method . |
| 28 | I make no apology for joining a distinguished band of predecessors . |
| 29 | The evolutionary analogy is close enough to justify borrowing the term , and I make no apology to my pompous colleagues who would purge our language of such illuminating images . |
| 30 | I make no apology for standing and shouting when Liverpool score . ’ |