Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] no [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April they decided to devote no more than £10 , in addition to the income from bequests , for prizes , and to make a " direct and formal " application to the Goldsmiths for some assistance . |
| 2 | After they had gone no more than ten metres they were shot dead . |
| 3 | This stipulated that they had to have no less than 100,000 members " with the signature and number of the election list for each one of them " . |
| 4 | They had found no less than five flesh wounds on his body when they stripped him of his armour , but all clean and none dangerous , once the draining of his blood was staunched . |
| 5 | The tired rabbits fed and basked in the sunny meadow as though they had come no further than from the bank at the edge of the near-by copse . |