Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] no [det] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took him no more than a few seconds of the exchange to decide which voice was Kemp 's . |
| 2 | So I thought it no less than my duty to book us into somewhere special on the west coast for a week . |
| 3 | Cadfael felt it , but thought it no more than the tension of the sortes . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | She gave him no more than a perfunctory ‘ So glad you could come , ’ before passing him on to her husband . |
| 7 | Not only were many of his proposals radically altered by the Duma , but he encountered stiff opposition from the State Council and the Tsar himself gave him no more than lukewarm support . |
| 8 | It left us no more than a 7-iron into the green . |