Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] no [noun sg] " in BNC.

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No Sentence
1 It seemed to have no power to affect the father .
2 It decided to take no part on the footing that sufficient documents for prosecution purposes had already been obtained from the defendants by the Crown Prosecuting Service .
3 The decisiveness and fresh conviction it brought made no difference to my theology and very little difference to my choices and values seen from the outside .
4 It appeared to make no difference whether the borough had been charge-capped .
5 For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century .
6 She had tried to imagine Tommy Allen coming into the bedroom and taking Fred 's place , but it had made no difference .
7 Formed nationally in 1900 it had played no role in pioneering local labour representation ; not until the early interwar years did it emerge with quite remarkable rapidity as the dominant political force in West Ham .
8 It had happened — and nothing worse was likely to happen — and it had done no harm .
9 The Crown admitted that the judge 's direction as to the effect of good character was flawed in the manner contended for by the defendant but , adopting the view of the Court of Appeal , while admitting the error , contended that it had caused no injustice .
10 There 's something new in the nest said the snow bright polar bear , I saw its shadow on a glacier as it had left no paw marks there .
11 Looking up , it had seemed no height at all .
12 Take the case of a floppy disk drive 's sudden failure to read a disk when previously it had shown no proclivity to such failing .
13 On Oct. 26 a 40 member-international observer group from the Washington-based National Democratic Institute ( NDI ) headed by a former Turkish Foreign Minister , Vahit Halefoglu , said that it had found no evidence to substantiate Bhutto 's allegations of large-scale electoral fraud .
14 A Geneva-based consultancy hired by the United Nations to investigate the allegations subsequently reported that it had found no evidence that any hazardous waste had been exported to Somalia .
15 If it had happened no doubt he would have done . ’
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