Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] no [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a true friend to sport , and cared no less for the manner in which success was achieved than for success itself . |
| 2 | I was told of one particular youngster in Stockton-on-Tees who has been arrested and charged no fewer than 17 times this year . |
| 3 | The guard , I thought , and paid no more attention to it until it stopped opposite my window and spoke . |
| 4 | Mr Reed ‘ picked up a bit of consulting work ’ following his resignation and heard no more until his arrest five months later . |
| 5 | The dive-bombing skuas , the screaming terns , the lovely trilling whimbrel and dunlin and the wailing divers , all are silent and will be seen and heard no more until spring arrives to warm the earth and banish the snows of winter . |
| 6 | Half-way leader Mats Lanner collapsed to a 77 , and saw no fewer than 23 players go past him . |
| 7 | But George was a born Canadian and knew no more about China than I did ; he shared with me the wish and determination to visit China , which seemed to us to be a land of fabulous culture . |
| 8 | Supposed to be matron , and knew no more than a charwoman . |
| 9 | I said I did n't know , and thought no more of it and it was n't until David returned and was performing at the Arts Lab on the Sunday night that I remembered and said to David , ‘ Oh , by the way , while you were away I had a message — your father is not very well ’ . |
| 10 | The prince had asked him to take over a small present ; Simon had stuck it in a pocket and thought no more about it , only when he saw Constanza he decided to deliver it in person . |
| 11 | When Giorgio had skipped I went back and thought no more about it . |
| 12 | After a previous band split up Dermot and a few mates recorded a track for a US compilation CD , called themselves Blink and thought no more about it . |
| 13 | He continued his walk and thought no more about the van . |
| 14 | He made some non-committal reply and thought no more about it until , a couple of days later , when the mob was actually storming the chancery building in the main square , he looked out of the window to see the assistant military attache playing the pipes . |
| 15 | Once on board the animals were pathetically docile and gave no more trouble . |
| 16 | She listened to his earnest philosophizing and did no more than that . |
| 17 | Once they had been admitted , every volunteer behaved within the mental hospital as normally as they could in the circumstances , and said no more about hearing voices . |
| 18 | Bernard left for college early and said no more about Nerina . |
| 19 | He saw her blanch and veil her eyes , and said no more of that for kindness . |
| 20 | Nor is she a by-blow ; the old fellow was churchgoing , and had no such leanings . ’ |
| 21 | He was given drugs which controlled this well and had no more health problems for the next four years . |
| 22 | Geneva was also the location for the START ( Strategic Arms Reduction ) talks , which began in June 1982 but made no more progress . |
| 23 | Lord Pearson agreed that if there had been an error it would have been jurisdictional but found no such mistake . |
| 24 | At the end of June 1862 , not long after Young Russia and the fires in St Petersburg — and immediately after an attempt on the life of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich — Valuev produced a paper on the internal condition of the empire in which he admitted the many difficulties under which the government was labouring but proposed no more than converting the State Council into a somewhat more representative body and bypassing the judicial system to deal with radicals more speedily . |
| 25 | Then she noticed the lights going on all over the school but thought no more about it . |
| 26 | He narrowed his eyes sceptically , but said no more about it . |
| 27 | He was six years old , but had no more sense than a child of three . |
| 28 | Mr Hill said : ‘ Mr McGregor appreciated something was not right but had no more time than a split second to begin to look round the corner of his chair when he was struck two extremely heavy blows to the base of his skull and the back of his neck by this defendant wielding a heavy fire extinguisher . |