Example sentences of "[vb past] have no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mercer Lorrimore in his turn and with a smile said his horse was called Voting Right , and no , he 'd had no advance notice of any attack . |
| 2 | Perhaps he 'd had no real intention of stuffing her up her back passage . |
| 3 | Finding herself passing Tony 's lodgings one evening when they 'd had no pre-arranged date , she had decided on impulse to drop in and surprise him . |
| 4 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |
| 5 | William seemed to have no other source of income at present . |
| 6 | The first sign that something was happening came when the interminable drumming from the countryside began to break up into two distinct and separate cadences , one deep and threatening , the other a nerve-jangling collection of notes that seemed to have no coherent structure , but somehow managed to sound rhythmic . |
| 7 | In summary , acute cigarette smoking caused a significant fall in Vg but seemed to have no significant effect upon transpyloric fluid shifts . |
| 8 | On the whole the teachers interviewed had no major concerns over the introduction of LMS . |
| 9 | For the few months before the Gulf crisis , the political world dissolved and what existed had no clear shape ; its familiar forms — the nations and empires — had no clear trajectory . |
| 10 | At first , he appeared to have no immediate plans to take on the armed forces . |
| 11 | He was not specific and appeared to have no other projects in hand . |
| 12 | But until about 1950 , the hard core of insanity , especially the schizophrenic and the manic-depressive psychoses , appeared to have no physical basis . |
| 13 | Hand is absolutely correct , in discussing subjective ‘ assessments ’ of thesis use , in saying that ‘ The observations appeared to have no experimental basis at all , as demonstrated by the estimates for derived publications ’ . |
| 14 | The evidence suggested that Bridge had worked in only one of the departments of what was a very substantial firm and had had no professional contact with the work of other departments . |
| 15 | Jake had had no real friends except Ben ; he had often been at the house in those old days , never saying much , but good at mending broken toys and constructing dolls out of handkerchiefs and folded paper . |
| 16 | Until that moment Aunt Louise had seemed almost a stranger , her mannerisms and glances unfamiliar , and I had had no real feeling of kinship . |
| 17 | At that stage in my life , I had had no real careers guidance and had very little idea of what I wanted to do or what I was capable of . |
| 18 | The USA had had no diplomatic relations with Libya since 1981 , and had suspended commercial ties in 1986 . |
| 19 | This remark , occurring as it does in a passage in which he is distinguishing between the grounds of the class metal ( ‘ the possession of certain common peculiarities ’ ) and those of the class sensation of white ( ‘ nothing but resemblance ’ ) clearly implies that if I had had no other sensations of white I could not assert the proposition ‘ This is a sensation of white ’ with the meaning it has when I have had such sensations . |
| 20 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 21 | She had had no serious illnesses in the past and had never been in hospital . |
| 22 | Paul Fisher exclaimed as she went quickly past him , but his ‘ wow ’ meant nothing to her other than that , unfortunately , his carpeting of a week last Friday had had no lasting effect . |
| 23 | Many , he said , were convinced that they had had no managerial experience , yet they had successfully brought up children , run a home , and far more . |
| 24 | The file hat shown that Miss Tuckey had had no official connection with the Intelligence Service since turning town a bedroom job there in 1946 , the year Marriage himself had joined them . |
| 25 | She had had no previous treatment for any emotional difficulties . |
| 26 | A recurring complaint was that the letter was from someone with whom wholesalers had had no previous contact . |
| 27 | Once the land had been expropriated , it was to be turned into cooperatives but , because the government felt it would be difficult for peasants , who had had no previous experience of administering a large farm , to move straight to a cooperative , there was an intermediary stage . |
| 28 | The Court of Appeal upheld the defendant 's conviction because there was ample evidence that a purchaser would understand the description ‘ new ’ to indicate that the vehicle had had no previous owner and no previous registered keeper . |
| 29 | I myself did not know anything about this and having checked with Gillyan Ford and all Publicity Assistants , found that they too had had no previous indication of the requirement to scan adverts . |
| 30 | Solihull teachers , most of whom had had no direct experience of SSE were generally more positive in their attitudes than were their Oxfordshire colleagues , most of whom had . |