Example sentences of "no [noun] [Wh adv] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They know that we send them straight to the cells at An Dap now , no matter how badly they injure themselves . |
| 2 | She had a string of boyfriends and no matter how badly she treated them there were always others lined up and waiting . |
| 3 | No matter how badly it offends your self-image , weigh yourself , even if you have to take yourself off to the abattoir to do it . |
| 4 | No matter how fast they travelled , the corridor never seemed to get any shorter and Endill thought he would be an old man by the time they reached the other end . |
| 5 | In Through the Looking Glass , you will remember , the Red Queen seized Alice by the hand and dragged her , faster and faster , on a frenzied run through the countryside , but no matter how fast they ran they always stayed in the same place . |
| 6 | Setting his face towards the barrow , which was still perhaps half a mile away in dramatic relief against the angry sky , he had the feeling that he was bring followed ; that wherever he went , and no matter how fast he covered the ground , his every move was shadowed . |
| 7 | The good news is that Interiors is n't on video , so there 's no need to revisit this austere tale of middle-class American family breakdown , no matter how slickly it was filmed and acted . |
| 8 | There was a slow sensuous laziness to his movements contradicted by the dangerously hard angles of his face , the flashing darkness of his eyes which no matter how covertly she looked at him seemed to be gazing at her . |
| 9 | Drill-holes never end up in the right place , screws do n't go in straight , and no matter how carefully they measure , nothing ever quite fits . |
| 10 | No matter how carefully they pointed out that areas of low pressure almost always bring rain and high winds and plenty of cloud , it did n't help at all when Station Commanders and Navigation Officers specifically wanted clear skies and good visibility over their targets . |
| 11 | Long-term cultures of unicellular organisms in small , asexual populations have shown a steady decline in the rate of division , and cultures sometimes went extinct , no matter how carefully they were kept . |
| 12 | The stair of my billet creaked , however , and no matter how carefully I tiptoed , in the morning I was always greeted with , ‘ We heard you come in last night ’ , and of course I felt guilty , especially as we could not defend ourselves , having to pretend that our work was of no account . |
| 13 | No matter how carefully I listened , and the faintest signals that I dug up , all my finds proved to be items of 17th century date . |
| 14 | No matter how carefully he sliced each shovelful in an arc out on the wind , there were certain unpredictable gusts that lifted the grains and blew them back towards the tractor so that by evening his clothes were filthy with lime , his face and hands as white as chalk , accentuating the inflamed red round his eyes . |
| 15 | No matter how carefully you have studied that Elvis 1968 comeback special look , emulating the King of Sex before he turned into the King of Lard , those around you are reminded more of Alvin Stardust singing ‘ My Coo-Ca-Choo ’ in PVC . |
| 16 | No matter how carefully you 've planned your bedroom , no scheme is truly successful without just the right bed linen . |
| 17 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 18 | She was alone in the house with Julius , and no one was going to come hurrying to her rescue , no matter how loudly she shouted . |
| 19 | Twenty years of police service had convinced him that Murphy 's law applied especially to police operations — no matter how meticulously they were planned , if it were remotely possible for something to fuck up , then it would ! |
| 20 | But it still falls into the category of advice no matter how sound it may be . |
| 21 | An applicant for judicial review may lose the case no matter how sound it might be as a matter of substantive ( as opposed to remedial ) law if , for example , he or she pursues the wrong procedure for seeking a remedy or does not satisfy the rules of standing ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 22 | A baby within it is in no danger of being thrown out no matter how energetically she bounces . |
| 23 | Little that John le Grant said was ever reassuring , no matter how right he might be . |
| 24 | A group needs time for the processes to develop to turn a number of individuals into a group , no matter how well they know each other . |
| 25 | But the direction of fashion is not currently decided by the great tailors , no matter how well they cut their cloth . |
| 26 | Yes , I know , but erm that was sugar beet now , of course we got to clomp back , with feed , do you know we used to eat that , because we were always hungry too , no matter how well they fed us , we used to eat raw swede and we used to I tell you what we used to do ! |
| 27 | No matter how well you eat , your body ( particularly heart and lungs ) is bound to suffer if you smoke and drink alcohol . |
| 28 | No matter how well you think that you know a river or loch , by the end of the day you will have acquired some piece of additional , vital information to add to your store of knowledge . |
| 29 | To many economists the cause of the difficulty lies in an institution , central planning , which can not achieve balanced growth and innovation in a mature , sophisticated economy no matter how well it is managed . |
| 30 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |