Example sentences of "[vb past] it without [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Withel regarded it without love . |
| 2 | On another occasion he described how he had ‘ once spent several hours on a bicycle with a friend in a serious attempt to discover the real spot but the search ended in failure though tourists assure me positively that they found it without difficulty ’ . |
| 3 | It took her a long time to negotiate the journey to the small , functional bathroom across the passage , but in the end she accomplished it without incident . |
| 4 | She began to unpack , trying to puzzle things out , and when a knock came on the door she opened it without thinking , her mind still elsewhere . |
| 5 | He was rarely the first to suggest what should be done ; when the others spoke he listened with half an ear , made up his mind what course to follow and followed it without hesitation as though no other were possible . |
| 6 | The singer sang it without accompaniment . |
| 7 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 8 | The Monastery of Saint James had been quite destroyed , and they passed it without halting . |
| 9 | Qualified privilege may be claimed if the member of the council making the statement about a person can show that he made it without malice and in pursuit of a public duty . |
| 10 | He made it without difficulty on to his raft , swinging it round to join the group he had noticed dropping away to his left ; and was overturned by a breaking wave . |
| 11 | It is n't , you can put anything up you like , the only illegality is not applying after you 've done it , and when you apply after you 've done it , all we can do is consider the planning reasons , not the fact that you did it without permission . |
| 12 | He was excellent at listening , and did it without cynicism . |
| 13 | ‘ But I did it without fore-intending it , and I hope God and the world will forgive me . ’ |
| 14 | There 's been an increasing tendency for people to stay on at school because they really want to , where it was one of the great criticisms of the boom years that people simply stayed on the escalator regardless , did n't think whether they wanted to stay on to , into sixth form , did n't think whether they wanted to go on to university or higher education , erm just did it without thinking . |
| 15 | ‘ He also did it without use of grievous bodily harm . ’ |
| 16 | I understand they did it without dogs . |
| 17 | I understand they did it without dogs . |
| 18 | Non-alignment in world affairs meant the Russians were not treading on Yugoslavia 's neck , but left it without friends to stem the chaos when it broke up . |
| 19 | She drank it without protest . |
| 20 | She said it without conviction . |
| 21 | But he said it without hope . |
| 22 | He said it without emotion , like someone discussing the death of turkeys in an abattoir . |
| 23 | Tug said it without thinking . |
| 24 | I said it without thinking . |
| 25 | Marion said it without thinking . |
| 26 | She said it without conceit , simply as a fact . |
| 27 | Pie accepted it without question or thanks , then shook Estabrook 's hand and left the trespassers to return to the safety of their car . |
| 28 | Both chamberlain and clerk accepted it without question when they were dismissed from attendance . |
| 29 | Some accepted it without comment and others were positive about the support provided by case conferences , procedures and registers in dealing with complex and difficult cases . |
| 30 | Lane accepted it without comment , although at another time he might have pressed for more of an answer ; he was n't a man who liked to be kept in the dark . |