Example sentences of "[vb past] for no [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had an enjoyable job of work waiting for him , and asked for no more than that . |
| 2 | The idea was so daft she would have laughed except for the Captain 's searing glance , which rested for no more than a second on her before returning to burn into Midnight as he breathed : |
| 3 | The to infinitive has much the same expressive effect in : ( 23 ) Certainly I looked for no such friendship as you have shown . |
| 4 | But he hesitated for no more than a moment before stepping inside and when the door was closed he took refuge in clowning . |
| 5 | She resisted for no more than a second , then joined him in the secret dark underneath . |
| 6 | The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) . |