Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My grandparents bequeathed me no worldly goods , no duties , no knowledge , no respect … |
| 2 | Wainfleet 's answers took them no nearer the truth about the murderer or the sender of the other knives . |
| 3 | He liked to live in company with another ; Bo-Bo had only negative virtues but , he had to admit , he would be lonely when she died , and the doctors gave her no more than a year . |
| 4 | By some freak of natural injustice my five tickets won me no fewer than three prizes ; not bad for a stake of 50p . |
| 5 | Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . |