Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FA will not pursue the matter and yesterday they agreed to take no action against referee Ray Lewis , who was accused by a fan of swearing at him during last week 's match between Barnet and Walsall . |
| 2 | This they seemed to find no difficulty in doing , once the meeting started . |
| 3 | Throckmorton said that after he had spoken in the House against the Act in Restraint of Appeals , he had been praised by Fisher and two other clerics , Nicholas Wilson and Richard Reynolds [ qq.v. ] , who told him that he need not persevere with such speeches if they seemed to have no effect , but that his example might be of value to others . |
| 4 | The par 3s they scored gave no hint of the fireworks to come . |
| 5 | They 'd caused no end of problems for the nomes . |
| 6 | Betty 's Betty has lived on they had roast beef for Christmas because they 'd eaten no red meat for so long |
| 7 | He was determined to let the clan see they 'd made no mistake in choosing him , and was off on a round of visits to all the main families , to impress them with his strength and intelligence , good sense and good humour . |
| 8 | They 'd taken no notice of Thérèse reporting that the Bishop expected only a simple meal . |
| 9 | Finding herself passing Tony 's lodgings one evening when they 'd had no pre-arranged date , she had decided on impulse to drop in and surprise him . |
| 10 | I should have been kitted out a week earlier but they 'd got no shoes to fit me . |
| 11 | Erm which is points up a weakness there on the public relations side there I mean going back to their post share repurchase they said that they 'd got no new products in the pipeline , no research and development really sort of throwing anything up in the near future . |
| 12 | Cooker was all electric , th they 'd got no gas mains up into the into the old village in those days you see . |
| 13 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 14 | Certainly , they 'd passed no other vehicles . |
| 15 | Lesser folk were aggrieved by the foresters ' interference with their rights of common in the Forest ; the Forest officers for their part reported that privileges they claimed had no warrant . |
| 16 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 17 | Such arguments would have been powerless , even silly , if everyone thought that the practices they challenged needed no support beyond convention or that these practices constituted the game of law in the way the rules of chess constitute that game . |
| 18 | In April they decided to devote no more than £10 , in addition to the income from bequests , for prizes , and to make a " direct and formal " application to the Goldsmiths for some assistance . |
| 19 | There were not many talented British filmmakers , and American distributors were not simply being awkward when they decided to do no more than fulfil the letter of the law by distributing films from far-off parts of the British Commonwealth that nobody wanted to see . |
| 20 | They proved to have no stomach for a fight with only Steve Regeling showing any semblance of spirit . |
| 21 | In the discussion which followed the Zuwaya argued that five hours had passed and they had elected no one : in view of the late hour and the irregularities ( another Magharba member of the local Assembly , doubling as an electoral officer , was suspected of cheating and was escorted out by police ) it would be better to hold the elections another day . |
| 22 | European observers were reported as saying that they had witnessed no serious problems during voting but did not comment on the claim of fraud after the close of stations . |
| 23 | They further said that they had received no formal complaint from Ahmed Ashraf . |
| 24 | As of early February , society officials say they had received no response to their request from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs . |
| 25 | According to the survey , one-third of home helps said they had received no training at all . |
| 26 | Azerbaijani officials claimed that the attacks on the border were the consequence of frustration of local residents that they had received no response to demands presented during the previous month for freer access to their fellow Azerbaijanis in northern Iran ( numbering up to 14,000,000 — twice the number of Soviet Azerbaijanis ) , and to rich agricultural land given over to border defences . |
| 27 | Chester police said they had received no report of the incident . |
| 28 | Darlington police said they had received no complaints about the missing company . |
| 29 | She had confidently expected to convalesce with her brother and his wife , but they had made no offer , indeed nothing but excuses . |
| 30 | They had made no checks with the families ' doctors . |