Example sentences of "he [verb] no more " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a hotel corridor , a very tall man in a vest , braces and crumpled suit is stooped next to a door , demonstrating that he has no more notion of how a Savoy room key works than your ordinary mortal . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | He has no more than a 5050 chance . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ When a mathematician proves some proposition you had not known , he accomplishes no more than a man who discloses the contents of a casket … by opening it up . ’ |
| 5 | The insurgents in London in 1381 called for Fordham 's death , but in the event he suffered no more than damage to his house and wine-cellar . |
| 6 | Or vice-versa , in Eddie 's case , as he gets no more than he gives from Marco . |
| 7 | Robert Simpson looked sceptical but he raised no more objections . |
| 8 | But the impression an impartial reader of Daniel receives is that he attributes no more importance to the Hellenizers than he does to their rivals , the followers of Judas Maccabaeus . |
| 9 | He needed no more encouragement . |
| 10 | He thought no more about it . |
| 11 | Herr Nordern was quizzed by the entire staff but stoically maintained that he knew no more than anyone else . |
| 12 | Her voice , her body , her smell were as familiar to him as his own , but essentially he knew no more about her now than when she had arrived . |
| 13 | The producer shrugged , adding that he knew no more than what he had told Blanche before . |
| 14 | He meant no more to me than a painting or a sculpture . |
| 15 | ‘ I could never agree to that , ’ he said : he smiled no more and let a silence grow uncomfortable . |
| 16 | He did no more than chip that one in as well , and it gave us the lead . |
| 17 | But surely he did no more than suggest ? |
| 18 | Indeed he would be doing so if he did no more than move an item from one place on a shelf to another . |
| 19 | For a man who despaired of his appetite he was surprisingly offhand with the buck rarebit he had ordered ; he did no more than shove it round and round his plate . |
| 20 | He did no more than raise an eyebrow . |
| 21 | In the case of the wrongful deportation of any asylum seeker , he admitted that he was consulted , but he hides behind the excuse that he did no more than accept civil servants ' advice . |
| 22 | ‘ He gave no more than that ? |
| 23 | And he gave no more bother . ’ |
| 24 | Yet he had no more chance than they did . |
| 25 | And this is a useful contribution I can not believe that the book jacket blurb was seen by Barry Gale ; it informs us that ‘ In 1859 , when Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species , he had no more evidence in support of his theory than did the creationists … ’ which is a caricature of Gale 's quite unexceptionable thesis . |
| 26 | Whereupon Debenham 's counsel said he had no more questions to ask the actress . |
| 27 | When the 1976 championship year began for Hunt , he was driving a car with which he had no more than a nodding acquaintance . |
| 28 | He looked a genuine danger from the home turn , but mistakes at the last two — a terrible one at the final obstacle — let him down , and he had no more to give on the flat . |
| 29 | He had no more resources to call upon . |
| 30 | For High Wood was the true home of their ringer fox — he had no more business in the small covert where they had found him than the man in the moon . |