Example sentences of "i have no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Anyhow , I had no personal ambition .
2 I had no personal control over branch funds , but had to bear the brunt of the attack .
3 ‘ By the time I realized that , I had no spare cash , ’ Clare explained .
4 Okay what happened was , I had no emotional reactions to anything , I wanted to cry at something on T V , I could n't any more , I could n't cry .
5 Originally at least I had no preselected feelings about anybody , one way or the other ( except about doctors : now where did that come from ? )
6 He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters .
7 I used to have breeding pair of Sailfin Mollies , and on the two occasions that fry were produced , I had no real problem from the Glassfish trying to eat them , in fact the Diamond Tetras were more troublesome !
8 We 'd made three or four visits to the area to look around before we finally moved down , but I had no real idea what was happening .
9 Quixotic or not , I had no real idea of where I was going .
10 Oh , I had no real evidence but a certain wariness , a feeling of unease .
11 ‘ At the time I had no real plans but just knew I wanted to be in a group .
12 At first I had no real suspicions , just a mild curiosity to see this young woman whom Donal enthused about .
13 I had no real choice .
14 As I 've already pointed out , I had no real television training as such .
15 Whilst demonstrating all too clearly her feeling that la Sologne belonged to her family , and I had no real place in it , she was able to discuss with Jean-Claude and me what we could reasonably expect from the area today , and lay down , precisely , what it was appropriate to do and not to do among the Solognats .
16 If I decide on the toss of a coin which investment will provide the greatest yield , and fortunately turn out to be right , we suppose that my choice is vindicated by the outcome perhaps , but not justified by it ; I had no real justification for making the choice I did .
17 After all , I had no real claim upon your attention , and I knew I meant so little to you I could be dropped at any moment without a second thought .
18 I had no definite idea that a new magazine could be something I could live off . ’
19 You can see I had no great hopes for my future as a woman .
20 I often mourn the passing of the treacle barrel because molasses was a good medicine for cattle , but I had no great hopes this time .
21 But then I was never much of a businesswoman and I had no close relatives left to turn to for help and advice .
22 Then , I believe , she was grateful that I had no prior distractions in my life .
23 I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice .
24 That was my , that was my objective i for the master bedroom , I had no other objective unless obviously the scenario changed .
25 Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest .
26 The mess of my life , the selfishnesses and false turnings and the treacheries , all these things could fall into place , they could become a source of construction rather than a source of chaos , and precisely because I had no other choice .
27 At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’
28 I had no good blood for the man but I would n't want anything to happen to him . ’
29 I had no alcohol-divining rod to bend a twig in the direction of brandy or Smirnoff .
30 I had no specific use at the time , but I thought it would prove a handy addition to the workshop , and was delighted when my grandfather elected to purchase the tool for me .
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