Example sentences of "but he [verb] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It 's not far now , lads , " the corporal chirped from the rear , but he struck no responsive chords in the toiling group . |
| 2 | The king ate several more lettuces but he got no better . |
| 3 | But he felt no emotional objection to republicanism ; he merely doubted its efficiency . |
| 4 | His father 's family was by now a familiar part of his life , but he felt no particular attachment to any of them . |
| 5 | He knew from prior disasters that the rock presaged bad rapids , but he had no other clue as to what lay ahead . |
| 6 | Vitor might find her easy to talk to , but he had no other interest in her . |
| 7 | Fleming continued to experiment as a bacteriologist with his material , but he had no advanced training in chemistry , and his environment did not throw chemically expert colleagues in his way . |
| 8 | For the next eighteen months , Austen Chamberlain worked behind the scenes to maintain the interests of his party , just as Law had done , but he had no personal sympathy for the diehards or their views , and he made no gestures of conciliation to them . |
| 9 | But he had no precise idea where Adam was and he did not think Adam 's travel agent ( a personal friend of the young Verne-Smiths ) would tell him . |
| 10 | He came into control of the District Underground Railway in 1900 but he had no particular interest in trains or the tracks they run on . |
| 11 | Jehan knew that he was in the steward 's way , but he saw no good reason to move . |
| 12 | He was not , in fact , from the North Country , but he knew no better expression for letting off steam and easing pent-up irritation . |
| 13 | The rural culture of New South Wales has changed dramatically since Mr Murray was a boy , but he harbours no easy nostalgia for the ways of the past . |
| 14 | Robert Simpson looked sceptical but he raised no more objections . |
| 15 | She heard him draw in breath sharply , but he made no other sound . |
| 16 | But he made no double-edged comment in return , simply said , ‘ Tell me of America , McAllister . |
| 17 | But he left no unequivocal evidence of why he personally felt Emancipation necessary . |
| 18 | But he gave no answering smile . |
| 19 | But he has no small talk . |
| 20 | ‘ But he has no easy task . ’ |
| 21 | He thinks that Bryan Gould , by contrast , is ‘ very clever and ambitious , but he has no real roots in Britain or its culture . ’ |
| 22 | Nothing in the system tells the operator when he has reached the desired temperature ; he can influence the temperature but he has no direct means of knowing the result . |
| 23 | ‘ Fortescue is hopping like a cat on hot bricks , demanding something should be done , but he has no more idea than I what can be done . |
| 24 | If he had moved his mouth from hers she would have come to her senses , resisted , but he did no such thing . |
| 25 | So back he went to his squadron — No 149 — but he fared no better . |