Example sentences of "was no [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the first night I arrived there , there was no one even to greet me . |
| 2 | If he neglected his physical body , there was no one here to reprimand him , for the whole community was woefully neglected . |
| 3 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 4 | Now Bill Sweet was dead , there was no one else to put on the pressure . |
| 5 | ‘ My husband has looked into Nahum 's affairs , as there was no one else to do it , and has been shocked to find that debts were mounting weekly . ’ |
| 6 | She brought us across the Irish Sea , trusting to God , but God chose her to suffer from the weather and she puked her guts into St George 's Channel , poor thing , and Francie crying because he closed our mother 's eyes , since there was no one else to do it . |
| 7 | For a moment Merrill 's grey eyes clouded ; winding up Elise 's affairs after her death had been a painful business , but there was no one else to do it . |
| 8 | There was no one else to do so . |
| 9 | ‘ If it 's not unethical — and there was no one else to do it , anyway — why have Celia and your grandmother kept it secret all these years ? |
| 10 | ‘ It does feel like that , ’ said Scarlet , wondering what she 'd do without Constance , since there was no one else to talk to . |
| 11 | There was no doubt he crashed into the sea as I watched him hit , but I did not get a confirmation of this as there was no one else to see it and R.D.F. did n't seem to have much coverage up that way . ’ |
| 12 | We climbed into the back , already full of people perched atop a deep pile of cargo , and squeezed into a rear corner , hoping there was no one else to come . |
| 13 | In the same way , Celie too was all alone , she had no one to turn to but God as there was no one else to pay attention to her . |
| 14 | Megan must have been there , Mrs Files 's senile aunt whom she brought to work when there was no one else to look after her . |
| 15 | And , as is usual for Managers ' meetings , there was no one there to shout ‘ stop ’ . |
| 16 | My mother was dead , and there was no one there to meet me . |
| 17 | ( b ) The problem of sustaining pupils ' independent use of the library after library induction , since it was only manned for 60% of the time , and often there was no one there to mediate between pupils ' needs and the resources . |