Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your hair causes you no concern , count yourself lucky . |
| 2 | But the rook paid her no attention , did not fly at her crying in a human voice Go back ! |
| 3 | Yeah because he said as soon as they see arrears he said they insist that it 's paid up and they insist that you have like three months pay them no problem he said |
| 4 | But even his eyes gave her no answer . |
| 5 | Fully discharging a single NiCad cell does it no harm , as you state in the article . |
| 6 | To publish falsely , of an Irish priest , that he informed on members of the IRA is not defamatory : it may cause him to be executed by terrorists , but the law offers him no way of securing a correction . |
| 7 | Granny paid them no heed . |
| 8 | He pens his ‘ Explanation ’ in his old age in an attempt to explain to himself what went wrong in his life , and how his always acting from the highest , most unselfish motives brought him no happiness but only pain and alienation . |
| 9 | The poor sod does n't like it , but the boss gave him no choice . |
| 10 | The assassin gave her no time to cry out ; a flare of terror — what am I doing here who is that behind me dark dark someone behind me — and Fox tightened her hold on the other 's mind , taking control . |
| 11 | Sikes and Nancy gave him no chance to escape and Oliver had no breath to call out for help . |
| 12 | Lorton was relieved that the clutch gave him no trouble : the wound in his leg had been designed to scare him , not to incapacitate him . |
| 13 | Merging into that vast , sweeping seascape of sky , waves and sand gave her no sense of calm . |
| 14 | You saw , sir , by her fit , she was in terror , and although your honour intended her no harm , yet the apprehension was almost death to her . |
| 15 | Your proposal brings me no comfort whatever , but I suppose I have little alternative . |
| 16 | Not that he was remote from the Council 's concerns ; his long-standing dialogue with Karl Barth makes him no exception to the keen and growing ecumenical awareness that characterizes almost all Catholic theological writing since the 1960s . |
| 17 | But in any case , bare titles give us no indication of the strength of their author 's commitment to them . |
| 18 | For a whole week they had worked closely together , sharing flasks of coffee and packets of cigarettes and Paula had grown to like the pixieish little man who by his very nature offered her no challenge — and no threat . |
| 19 | For apart from Lenin 's conviction that there is always a dominant instance at a time of social stability , and a dominant contradiction at a time of social change , Althusser gives us no reason to believe that there need only be one aspect of society which bears this relation to the mode of production . |
| 20 | But no matter how much he twisted and turned , the Liverpool dynamo gave him no rest . |
| 21 | Just because Council is delegated in the matter of routine gives it no right to assume such a role when it proposes such a mammoth commitment . |
| 22 | The room gave her no help . |
| 23 | She responds to a comment by the monk on how she appears to have passed the night in sexual " labour " by bemoaning what she suffers as a wife , implying that her husband gives her no pleasure in bed and is mean with his money . |
| 24 | To bring our participants ' social world to life in the kind of detail that is likely to carry conviction we must not just plunge into descriptions of the world of school and football ground , since without the concepts to see it no alternative to the official picture is likely to emerge . |
| 25 | It was addressed to Miss Stella Mawson , Lavender Cottage , Chevisham , but the postman was a local man and the difference in name caused him no confusion . |
| 26 | Smallfry paid him no attention . |
| 27 | If , as I have argued , neurophysiological explanations of mind explain nothing and if physiological observations give us no purchase on the essentially metaphysical question of the nature of mind , how has the myth become so powerful that many people within and outside the scientific community do believe that neurophysiology has advanced ( or will advance ) our understanding of mind and the mind-body relationship ? |
| 28 | We might reply that the simplicity of cave communities is idiosyncratic rather than typical : we might ask what general ecological insights we are going to obtain from communities that lack photosynthetic plants and herbivores , and are maintained by detritus flushed down from above : but Dr Culver gives us no answer . |
| 29 | Environmental pressures give us no option but to exploit animals . |
| 30 | The Trees paid him no heed . |