Example sentences of "no [noun pl] left " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no bombs left , so Mayne leaped up on to the wing and , reaching into the cockpit , wrenched out the instrument panel with his bare hands . |
| 2 | I mean my boy had a er a terrible accident ten years ago and smashed all his face all his teeth were when we first saw his face he 'd got no teeth left but it 's got them all back . |
| 3 | You know that if you kill yourself with fatigue , you 'll have no hours left at all . |
| 4 | Naseby and Rose inspected the sanitary ware closely , but if Sir Thomas had indeed been sick , than there were no traces left . |
| 5 | And so eventually , of course , they had no twigs left , then no branches left , and in the end the trees were cut right down . |
| 6 | By the time he died there were no animals left in the yard , nor land to call his own , for it had been sold to the building men , who were throwing up The Courts in order to house the rabble from starving Ireland and those flooding in from all the villages from miles around , all in the hope of being set on and blankets and shawls , everything that would go to cover a human being . |
| 7 | There 'll be no animals left and no trees . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't make me cross , ’ said Joe , ‘ or I 'll march you off to Wellington Barracks and drill you till you 've got no legs left . ’ |
| 9 | I have no illusions left . ’ |
| 10 | She said that 's why it 's got no spikes left . |
| 11 | Unlike ceramic wall tiles , there should be no gaps left between mirror tiles ( although you should leave a gap at either end , between the tiles and the side wall ) , and the wall surface must be really flat before you start . |
| 12 | Well , he was wasting his time because as far as he was concerned she had no senses left ! |
| 13 | Maybe they were pests to humans , but humans were much bigger pests to them ; now there are no thylacines left and a considerable surplus of humans . |
| 14 | Peter Mason , a member of the UDM 's national council , told Mr Clarke bluntly : ‘ The way you are running British Coal there will be no collieries left anywhere in the country . ’ |
| 15 | However , once you 're growing hair you can sit on and are headed skyward from five foot three , then , if there are no seats left in the front , you 'd be more comfortable tied to the roof rack . |
| 16 | There were no bridges left standing between Verona and Rome and , according to Eric , who from now on was to travel this way once a week , every village south of Florence on the main road to Viterbo and Rome had been either destroyed or severely damaged . |
| 17 | They said they said oh there 's no beds left at all , there 's probably about ten and the there was a bed , then I had to wait till about half past three in the afternoon to get into it . |
| 18 | And then , terribly pleased with that demonstration , the anthropologist goes on to try to fit in everything : and a good anthropologist is one who completes the picture and appears to have no pieces left over at the end . |
| 19 | I had no veins left . |
| 20 | I had no relatives left behind for them to blackmail me into silence-that had been the biggest obstacle . |
| 21 | There were no topics left . |
| 22 | These had no fronts left . |
| 23 | The Government has no excuses left . |
| 24 | There are no excuses left for me or anyone in my position , for Government or for Opposition . |
| 25 | Another task force member , a young Indonesian zoologist named Jack West , added , ‘ Also if we wait until next year and the logging goes on as it has , there will be no trees left to keep the elephants on their trail . ’ |
| 26 | No wonder there were no trees left standing round the farm . |
| 27 | Soon there were no hoops left , because the soldiers ( who were the hoops ) were too busy taking everybody to prison . |
| 28 | He 's been rattling on about people bemoaning the passing of Trevino and Palmer , saying there are no characters left , merely machine-like robots who take five minutes to select a club , 10 minutes to line up a putt , and five-and-a-half hours to complete a round . |
| 29 | I had hired a moped in Tiree , there being no bicycles left , and like a multicoloured Batman Snoopy in my Mary Quant cape arrived at the Balemartine Baptist church for morning service . |
| 30 | He fears motorists are no longer held in high esteem and it was time the Government took steps to limit the amount of damages payable after a traffic accident , otherwise there would soon be no motorists left . |