Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FA will not pursue the matter and yesterday they agreed to take no action against referee Ray Lewis , who was accused by a fan of swearing at him during last week 's match between Barnet and Walsall . |
| 2 | They intend to make no statement at the moment because they are still awaiting the outcome of the police investigation . |
| 3 | Considering the other sensory systems of cetaceans , they appear to have no sense of smell , for they lack any obvious olfactory organ , olfactory nerve or olfactory cerebral centre . |
| 4 | They appear to have no need of an anemone and usually ignore any placed in the aquarium with them . |
| 5 | They appear to have no effect at all on pigs , rats or guinea-pigs . |
| 6 | This they seemed to find no difficulty in doing , once the meeting started . |
| 7 | Throckmorton said that after he had spoken in the House against the Act in Restraint of Appeals , he had been praised by Fisher and two other clerics , Nicholas Wilson and Richard Reynolds [ qq.v. ] , who told him that he need not persevere with such speeches if they seemed to have no effect , but that his example might be of value to others . |
| 8 | The par 3s they scored gave no hint of the fireworks to come . |
| 9 | They 'd caused no end of problems for the nomes . |
| 10 | He was determined to let the clan see they 'd made no mistake in choosing him , and was off on a round of visits to all the main families , to impress them with his strength and intelligence , good sense and good humour . |
| 11 | They 'd taken no notice of Thérèse reporting that the Bishop expected only a simple meal . |
| 12 | Cooker was all electric , th they 'd got no gas mains up into the into the old village in those days you see . |
| 13 | I should have been kitted out a week earlier but they 'd got no shoes to fit me . |
| 14 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 15 | But the danger in some ‘ deconstructionist ’ theories , however , is that they seem to leave no space for the material struggles or ordinary aspirations of women . |
| 16 | If they seem to cause no problems , you can include them in the child 's diet . |
| 17 | They seem to have no colour , although yesterday afternoon 's image is still strong — the canyon glowing deep red in reflected light from the walls , the interior an inferno in the midday sun . |
| 18 | Extraordinarily enough for a couple who were supposed to be at such odds , they seem to have no problem over their conversation . |
| 19 | Lesser folk were aggrieved by the foresters ' interference with their rights of common in the Forest ; the Forest officers for their part reported that privileges they claimed had no warrant . |
| 20 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 21 | Such arguments would have been powerless , even silly , if everyone thought that the practices they challenged needed no support beyond convention or that these practices constituted the game of law in the way the rules of chess constitute that game . |
| 22 | They proved to have no stomach for a fight with only Steve Regeling showing any semblance of spirit . |
| 23 | those are the ones that I 'd be , cos it 's obvious , I mean , they 've done no work in the past sort of twelve months |
| 24 | Yeah er the , the French erm have a very large nuclear programme er for , for a good erm logical gallic reasons , I mean they 've got no oil , they 've got no gas , they 've got no coal , so they decided , oh years and years ago in the nineteen fifties , to have a very large nuclear programme . |
| 25 | I need the loo but they 've got no toilet paper so I ca n't go . |
| 26 | Ear early before I came over here and they 've got no vacancies none none at Demontfort House at all . |
| 27 | They 've got no pickle ! |
| 28 | said that people are losing all interest in the election and they 've got no faith in any of parties they all seemed to much alike and all fund ranges |
| 29 | They take on the whole world , but they 've got no patterns with which to deal with all that experience. , |
| 30 | But of course the higher standards they 've got no protection cos they did n't want what was offered . |