Example sentences of "no [noun sg] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the valley of Minas Morgul the Ringwraith sends out a command for him to put it on , but Frodo finds no response to it in his own will , feeling only ‘ the beating upon him of a great power from outside ’ . |
| 2 | I must tell you that I see no advantage to them in this situation . |
| 3 | As far as I can see , this road 's no good to us at all . |
| 4 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 'd be no good to you at G.W. Fashions ! ’ |
| 5 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 6 | There 's no plot to it at all , it 's it 's just so farfetched ! |
| 7 | I have purchased two 7cm long Osphronemus gouramis , but can find no reference to them in my books . |
| 8 | But there had been no reference to them in the detailed report of Surrendered Ex-Enemy Personnel sent up by 5 Corps to Eighth Army two days earlier , on 15 May [ KP 112 ] . |
| 9 | It is a Possessed kind of joke , inconceivable in Crime and Punishment , and there was no reference to it in the version of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ submitted to Katkov initially . |
| 10 | It must have been the most bewildering social change since the Enclosures , and yet I can find no reference to it in the village School Log . |
| 11 | so I actually felt that although that presentation was very good , it was almost like a blind presentation because there was no benefit to him at the end of it because he , he did n't have , you had n't got those finishing point |
| 12 | Nearly all boards today have a mast track system for moving the mastfoot , but it is of no benefit to you as a beginner . |
| 13 | He can give no lecture to us on unemployment . |
| 14 | The Minister is aware that those who work for 16 hours or less do not have the right to itemised pay statements unless they have worked for five years and that those who work less than eight hours have no right to them at all . |
| 15 | The Fat Controller addressed me over the sounds of her orgasm , paying no attention to them at all . |
| 16 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 17 | ( Note — this knowledge would be of no use to me in Greece , where no butcher knows them . ) |
| 18 | The service was no novelty to him for his father had been a High Anglican vicar in another part of London and Rupert had not lost his boyhood faith until his first year at Oxford — late really , he had thought , for a clergyman 's son . |
| 19 | ‘ And , anyway , he 's been absolutely no trouble to me at all . |
| 20 | Th there 's no logic to it at all but they play it on . |
| 21 | Darwin 's concept of evolution may hold water as far as it goes , but without the inclusion of an omnipotent ‘ Master Mind ’ , working from outside to plan the possibility of purposeful development , it makes no sense to me at all . |
| 22 | No secret to you from now on . |
| 23 | In contrast to the pervading mood of fear and uncertainty of last year , the atmosphere from 17 to 22 June this year was one of resignation : the crisis is upon us ; there 's no end to it in sight , but we still have to be here . |
| 24 | Surely there could be no gain to him from the old lady 's death ? |
| 25 | No magic to it at all , except insofar as it was a direct transferral of intention to effect with very little attenuation of the causal chain . |
| 26 | The idea of a school in itself is basically of no interest to me at all . |
| 27 | That is of no interest to me at all ’ . |
| 28 | One moment you give all your time to it , you do n't come home till late at night , you do n't even come home in the afternoon like ordinary men , the next you are giving no time to it at all . |